Robert Harris
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born
March 07, 1957
gender
male
place of birth
Nottingham, England, , The United Kingdom
genre
Historical Fiction, Nonfiction
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Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957 in Nottingham) is a best-selling English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC TV reporter. He specialises in historical thrillers noted for their literary accomplishment. His books have been translated into some thirty languages.
Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local printing plant where his father worked. Harris went to Belvoir High School, Bottesford, and then King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray, where a hall is now named after him. There he wrote plays and edited the school magazine. Harris read English literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he wa...more
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Pompeii by Robert Harris avg rating 3.57 — 1,743 ratings — published 2003 46 editions |
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Fatherland by Robert Harris avg rating 3.73 — 960 ratings — published 1992 28 editions |
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Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris avg rating 3.73 — 743 ratings — published 2006 32 editions |
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Enigma by Robert Harris avg rating 3.67 — 494 ratings — published 1995 26 editions |
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The Ghost by Robert Harris avg rating 3.42 — 448 ratings — published 2007 22 editions |
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Archangel by Robert Harris avg rating 3.64 — 346 ratings — published 1962 24 editions |
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A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare by Robert Harris, Jeremy Paxman avg rating 3.95 — 19 ratings — published 1982 4 editions |
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Selling Hitler by Robert Harris avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1986 6 editions |
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Speaking with the Angel by Robert Harris, Melissa Bank, Patrick Marber avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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What to Listen for in Mozart by Robert Harris avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published 1992 3 editions |
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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
— Robert Harris
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"By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question."
— Robert Harris (Enigma)
— Robert Harris (Enigma)
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