Bates Books
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Sunday, 30 August 2026 - 3 minutes
Simon Bates recommends Lesley M. M. Blume’s Everybody Behaves Badly, which exposes the wild real-life drama behind Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. He also praises Robert Harris’s gripping historical novel Agrippa, calling the tale of ancient Roman betrayal his favorite read of the week.
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