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The Penguin Podcast: Robert Harris

Author Robert Harris joins Richard E. Grant in the Penguin studio to talk about his latest novel, Conclave

15 February 2016

Robert explains why the election of a new Pope is the perfect setting for a thriller and talks about being given an exclusive tour of the Vatican as part of his research.

He brings along his first typewriter, which he bought for £10 when he was twelve years old, and explains why having a bust of Cicero sitting on his desk helps to focus his mind.

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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 thirteen 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, Munich and The Second Sleep. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby. His next book, V2, is coming out in autumn 2020.

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