Robert Harris on Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris is the author of fifteen bestselling novels, including the Cicero Trilogy (Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator), Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2 and Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television, most recently the Oscar-nominated film Conclave. His thrilling new novel, Precipice, weaves fact and fiction to tell the story of the love affair between HH Asquith and Venetia Stanley.

Rosie Boycott is a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. For ten years she was chair of The London food Board, responsible to the Mayor of London for food policy in the City. She is a well known food activist with particular interest in food poverty, health, environment and agricultural sustainability. She is a trustee of the Food Foundation and Feeding Britain and chair of Veg Power. She was the co-founder of the feminist magazine Spare Rib and the editor in chief of three national newspapers: The Independent on Sunday, the Independent and the Daily Express.