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.
One of Harris's most compellingly paced to date . . . it is his
best since Fatherland * Sunday Times *
Act of Oblivion is a belter of a thriller. It will be
compulsive reading for those who loved An Officer and a Spy,
Harris's book about the Dreyfus affair. Like that novel, the
research is immaculate. A chewy, morally murky
slice of history is made into a thriller that
twists and surprises. The characters are strong and
we care about their predicament. The story stretches over
continents and years, but the suspense feels as taut as if the
three main characters were locked in a room with a gun. * The
Times *
Act of Oblivion is a fine novel about a divided nation, about
invisible wounds that heal slower than visible ones . . . it
feels like an important book for our particular historical moment,
one that shows the power of forgiveness and the intolerable burden
of long-held grudges * Observer *
Harris's books are always supremely readable - he has practically
trademarked the term 'master storyteller' -- Alex Preston *
Observer *
[Harris] writes with a skill and ingenuity that few other novelists
can match * Financial Times *
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