{"product_id":"conn-iggulden-nero-hardback-historical-fiction-novel-2026248877","title":"Conn Iggulden Nero Hardback Historical Fiction Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Information:\u003c\/strong\u003e TYRANTS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE RAISED.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTravel to the heart of a Roman dynasty drenched in danger and intrigue in master storyteller Conn Iggulden's bold and brilliant return to Rome as he tells the story of NERO - last of the the Julio-Claudian emperors . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANCIENT ROME, AD 37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with a man's hand curled around another's throat. Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor. Then his whole family. Next all his friends. It is as if he never existed. THIS IS ROMAN JUSTICE.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is no protection. The closer you are to the heart of the empire, the closer you are to power, intrigue, and danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe faces soldiers, senators, rivals, silver-tongued pretenders, each vying for position. One mistake risks exile, incarceration, execution. Or, worst of all, the loss of her infant son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Agrippina knows that opportunity waits, even in your darkest moments. Her son is everything. She can make this boy, shape him into Rome itself - the one all must kneel before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBUT FIRST, THEY MUST SURVIVE . . . This then is the story of Nero's birth and raising under the watchful and scheming eye of his mother Agrippina - a woman every man crossed at his peril.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther Information:\u003c\/strong\u003e CONN IGGULDEN is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today, with bestselling series on Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and the Wars of the Roses, as well as two stand-alone novels: Dunstan, set in the red-blooded world of tenth-century England, and The Falcon of Sparta, in which Iggulden returns to the Ancient World. Both instalments of his Athenian series, The Gates of Athens and Protector, and his recent Golden Age series, Lion and Empire, are Sunday Times bestsellers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ASDA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48329070215406,"sku":"STO-ITEM-2026-248877","price":19.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/0125\/9183\/files\/9780241587324_T1.jpg?v=1784198981","url":"https:\/\/mcgrocer.com\/products\/conn-iggulden-nero-hardback-historical-fiction-novel-2026248877","provider":"McGrocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}