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Robert Harris

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ROBERT HARRIS is the author of nine best-selling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, England, with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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Your Cicero series deals with prominent historical figures, such as Julius Caesar and Cicero himself. How did you look past these men of marble and find the breathing characters who live in your novels?

Robert Harris Aristotle said that the truest guide to a man’s character is his actions, and I suppose that is the basis for my characterization. I look at what thes…moreAristotle said that the truest guide to a man’s character is his actions, and I suppose that is the basis for my characterization. I look at what these men did, and then try to work backwards, imagining what it was in their personalities that led them to behave as they did. I also work on the basis that 2,000 years is the blink of an eye in terms of the scale of evolution, and they weren’t that dissimilar to us.(less)

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If you could have been present at any event during the Roman Empire, what would it have been?

Robert Harris A strange choice, I know, but I would have loved to have been at the final dinner that Cicero gave for Julius Caesar in December 45 BC, three months b…moreA strange choice, I know, but I would have loved to have been at the final dinner that Cicero gave for Julius Caesar in December 45 BC, three months before Caesar’s assassination. It is described in Dictator. Caesar turned up with a bodyguard of 1,000 men, and afterwards Cicero wrote to Atticus that although it had been an enjoyable occasion “he is not the kind of man to whom one says, ‘do drop by the next time you are in the neighbourhood.’”(less)

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	Conclave 4.12 avg rating — 75,462 ratings — published 2016 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fatherland 4.02 avg rating — 55,105 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pompeii 3.88 avg rating — 52,599 ratings — published 2003 — 197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperium (Cicero, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 40,234 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Officer and a Spy 4.22 avg rating — 32,796 ratings — published 2013 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Munich 3.88 avg rating — 28,665 ratings — published 2017 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conspirata (Cicero, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 21,347 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Act of Oblivion 4.06 avg rating — 20,129 ratings — published 2022 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dictator (Cicero, #3) 4.41 avg rating — 17,577 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost 3.82 avg rating — 20,232 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
― Robert Harris, Pompeii

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“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.”
― Robert Harris, The Ghost

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“My brothers and sisters, in the course of a long life in the service of our Mother the Church, let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end. 'Eli Eli, lama sabachtani?' He cried out in His agony at the ninth hour on the cross. 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.”
― Robert Harris, Conclave

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