Robert Harris is the author of ten bestselling novels including: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator. His novel, An Officer and a Spy, won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Several of his books have been filmed, most recently 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.
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Robert Harris is the author of ten bestselling novels including: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator. His novel, An Officer and a Spy, won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Several of his books have been filmed, most recently 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.
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