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Robert Harris on Conclave: 'In a way, it almost felt to me the perfect story

Politics, power and popes – what is Conclave? Author Robert Harris discusses his latest thrilling novel: 'In a way, it almost felt to me the perfect story'

01 September 2016
Conclave

  • Conclave

  • Now available to preorder: THE SECOND SLEEP, Robert Harris's new thriller.
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    THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN.

    ***SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***

    The Pope is dead.

    Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.

    They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals.

    Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
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    ‘Unputdownable’ Guardian
    ‘Gripping’ Sunday Times

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Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave and most recently, Munich. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

Robert Harris

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