Robert Harris is the author of fifteen 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, 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. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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THE BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES, INDEPENDENT, SPECTATOR, i NEWS 
 
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB AND A SUNDAY TIMES SUMMER READS PICK 2025 
 
‘A riveting tale of politics, war and erotic obsession’ Sunday Times 
 
‘A slam dunk of a plot . . . extraordinary’ Nicholas Coleridge, Independent 
 
Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. 
 
In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. 
 
As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents – and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history. 
 
Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction in a way that no writer does better, Precipice is the thrilling new novel from Robert Harris.

Precipice

THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN. 
 
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
NOW AN BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING MOVIE. 
 
Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals are meeting in conclave to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. 
 
They are holy men. But they are ambitious. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth. Who will it be? 
 
'Unputdownable' Guardian 
'Gripping' Sunday Times

Conclave

'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES 
'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER 
'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'From what is it they flee?' 
He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 
 
1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. Having been found guilty of high treason for the murder of Charles the I, they are wanted and on the run. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive. 
 
In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. 
 
Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. 
 
'A ripping page-turner' FINANCIAL TIMES 
'You could not do better than this' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Act of Oblivion

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