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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1983
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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About the Author

Robert Harris was born in Nottingham in 1957 and is a graduate of Cambridge University.He has been a reporter on the BBC's Newsnight and Panarama programmes, political editor of the Observer, and a columnist on The Sunday Times. He is the author of five non-fiction books in addition to his best selling fiction. He lives in Berkshire, near Newbury. He has a wife and four children.

Full Series List in Order

Cicero

1 - Imperium (Sep-2006)
2 - Lustrum // Conspirata (Dec-2009)
3 - Dictator (Jan-2016)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Gotcha!

  • The Making of Neil Kinnock

  • Fatherland

    It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Fuhrer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy. Meanwhi...

  • Enigma

    England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the...

  • Archangel

    It would be the find of a lifetime--a personal notebook that once belonged to Josef Stalin. For Fluke Kelso, a British professor of Russian history, unearthing it would catapult him from the ranks of mediocrity to fame and fortune. But more than one ...

  • She Who Is Alive

    Fiction. The reader plugs herself into the death drive dream of SHE WHO IS ALIVE for a glide through the residual terror of the white part of the twentieth century. Imaginary. She asks herself along the way the disturbing question, 'Why do I love eve...

  • PMQ

    in Speaking With the Angel
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    12 completely new stories, written by 12 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today; clever, outrageous, witty, edgy, tender, wicked... this is what they meant by "original." Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded g...

  • Pompeii

    All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in t...

  • Imperium

    Cicero - 1

    A CAUTIONARY TALE OF CICERO, THE GREATEST ORATOR OF ALL TIME, AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN ROME. When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morni...



  • Ghost

    "The moment I heard how McAra died, I should have walked away. I can see that now…" The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth co...

  • Lustrum // Conspirata

    Cicero - 2

    On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear through a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. Felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs remo...

  • The Fear Index

    At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now. Dr. Alex Hoffmann's name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he ...

  • The Million Dollar Girl

  • An Officer and a Spy

    Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, ...

  • Seventy Stories and a Poem

    This is a collection of very short stories, some in the tradition of Aesop's Fables--stories with a point. Some use humor and others require some thinking, but all are both entertaining and profitable. Ideal for those who have only a few minutes here...

  • Nerds Among Us

    Jake Bravado, a nerdophobic writer, finds out that nerds ' the once-ubiquitous canker sore on the lip of humanity ' are noticeably scarce. Where are they? What are they planning? Jake takes it upon himself to discover the truth, thus beginning a ...

  • Dictator

    Cicero - 3

    At the age of forty-eight, Cicero -- the greatest orator of his time -- is in exile, his power sacrificed on the altar of his principles. The only way to return to Rome is to pledge his support to a charismatic and dangerous enemy: Julius Caesar. Har...

  • Lustrum

    Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina...

  • Conclave

    The Pope is dead.

    Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty 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 t...



  • Munich

    From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September, 1938. Guy Legat is a ...

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  • The Second Sleep

    From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to con...

  • The Mobius Incident

    ...an incredibly propulsive narrative... - Naomi Gibbs, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...expertly crafted... - Liz Farrell, ICM Partners...perfect pace... - Sydney Rogers, SourcebooksThe Möbius Incident is a fast-paced thriller in which Adam Welch, a...

  • The Missing Maltese

    Claude Monet, basking in the glow of his first success as a private eye (Claude Monet, Private Eye: The Pilfered Paintings), celebrates by taking a two-day cruise down the Seine to Le Havre with wife Alice and dog Toulouse. All goes well until an...

  • The Pilfered Paintings

    Claude Monet, weary of painting haystacks and cathedrals and lily ponds, finally pursues his real passion: criminal investigation. And after two long months of waiting, he has his first case. He's called in to investigate the theft of two unremar...

  • Historical Moments

  • V2

    From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program. It's November 1944--Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launchin...

  • The Cicero Trilogy

  • Act of Oblivion

    From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King...



  • Precipice

    “Robert Harris is, simply put, masterful.” -- Karin SlaughterA spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the Great War from the bestselling author of Act of Oblivion, Fatherland, The Ghostwriter...

  • Bait

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    MURDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING… FBI Agent Ryan Gunn has killed for his country, stared death in the face on numerous occasions, and survived being hit by multiple pieces of shrapnel from a roadside IED in Afghanistan, but all of these thing...

  • Charity Begins at Home

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    SERIAL KILLER OR SECRET SAVIOUR? Even after all this time, there are still certain people operating within the fields of criminal investigation and criminal psychology who argue about whether serial killers are actually a product of nature versu...

  • Final Christmas

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    HO, HO, HO, SANTA CLAWS IS COMING TO TOWN… On Christmas Day in 2010, Santa Claws descended upon the city of Boston and gave a debut performance that shocked not only the city, but the rest of the country as well. He visited three separate...

  • Wicked Thoughts

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    PURE EVIL COMES IN MANY FORMS… It's 1967 and Zach Naylor is young, bright, and carefree. He is about to move to a big city in the southwest of England and start his first real job, and he has his whole life and a world of possibilities in...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Harris has published 34 books.

The next book by Robert Harris, Precipice, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Robert Harris, Gotcha!, was published in March 1983.

Yes. Robert Harris has 1 series.
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