Robert Harris - Author
Robert Harris is the author Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and Imperium – all of which were worldwide bestsellers. His work has been translated into thirty-three languages. He was born in Nottingham in 1957 and is a graduate of Cambridge University. He worked as a reporter on the BBC’s Newsnight and Panorama programmes, before becoming Political Editor of the Observer in 1987, and then a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. In 2003 he was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards. He lives near Hungerford in Berkshire with his wife and their four children.
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The Fear Index
Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012.
Robert Harris' latest book is gripping, compelling and unsettlingly a little too close to the truth. Set entirely over the course of a single day, The Fear Index follows the genius owner...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
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The Fear Index
Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year Award 2011.
Robert Harris' latest book is gripping, compelling and unsettlingly a little too close to the truth. Set entirely over the course of a single day, The Fear Index follows...
Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/2011
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Lustrum
Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 October 2009.
This is the second part of Harris's historical trilogy which began with Imperium. More political intrigue from 60BC...
Format: Hardback - Released: 08/10/2009
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Fatherland
Robert Harris
November 2011 Guest Editor Victoria Hislop selects Fatherland...
Fatherland by Robert Harris is an amazing novel. In fact all his novels are great, but this just happens to be my favourite. Robert Harris always does extensive and exhaustive research into...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
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The Ghost
Robert Harris
March 2013 Guest Editor Charles Cumming on The Ghost...
Probably the best thriller I’ve read in the last ten years, Harris’s story about a ghostwriter hired to pen the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister is both a gripping...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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The Ghost
Robert Harris
Harris is a brilliant thriller writer and the topicality of this book makes for an even better thriller full of twists turns and a real feeling of being in the inner circles of government.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2007
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Lustrum
Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Rome 63 BC, power struggles, political machinations, physical intimidation, bribery, assassination and more in an exceptional historical thriller, superbly written. There is no hint of comparison between then and now...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2005
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Pompeii
Robert Harris
Superb – there is no other word for it. The research, plotting, excitement and emotions are thrilling. His existing fans eagerly await it, and new readers will love it too.
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2004
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The Fear Index
Robert Harris
Dr Alex Hoffman is a legend. An American physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Fatherland
Robert Harris
April 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a river on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel.
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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