Lustrum
- Published
- 8 October 2009
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780091801007
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 464 pages, Lustrum (2009) is the longest of the three books -- published in the US under the alternate title Conspirata -- covering Cicero's consulship and the Catiline conspiracy three years after Imperium.
Key facts about Lustrum
Lustrum is a novel by Robert Harris. Readers have had it since 8 October 2009. It runs to 464 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Lustrum. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780091801007 to find the main one.
Lustrum is book 2 of 3 in the Cicero Trilogy series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with Imperium (2006). Dictator is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 8 October 2015.
That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, Agrippa is the latest published Robert Harris book on file, from 27 August 2026.
About Robert Harris
Robert Harris is a British author and former journalist and BBC television reporter who turned to fiction with Fatherland (1992), an alternate-history thriller imagining a world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War, which became an international bestseller and established the meticulously researched, politically literate style that has defined his career since. See every Robert Harris book in order.
Its place in Cicero Trilogy
Lustrum is book 2 in the Cicero Trilogy series. It follows Imperium. It is followed by Dictator. See the full Cicero Trilogy reading order.
Narrated throughout by Tiro, Cicero's real-life slave and secretary (and the historical inventor of an early Latin shorthand system), the Cicero Trilogy dramatizes the Roman statesman's entire public career: his rise from provincial outsider to Consul of Rome in Imperium, his consulship and the Catiline conspiracy in Lustrum, and his slow fall from power under Julius Caesar and the triumvirs that follow in Dictator. Harris treats Cicero's political maneuvering -- alliances, bribery, courtroom rhetoric, backroom…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780091801007