About the Author

Robert Harris is the author of eleven bestselling novels- the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and Conclave. Several of his books have been filmed, including 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.

Reviews

Harris’ superlative skill at depicting power politics makes this an irresistibly gripping papal page-turner.
*Sunday Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR*

Thriller of the year . . . with a plot so serpentine and sinuous that I could not bear to put it down.
*Daily Mail BOOKS OF THE YEAR*

‘I have been waiting for most of my life for Robert Harris to write a novel that is not gripping, insightful and entertaining. I am waiting still. His latest, Conclave, is superb.
*The Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR*

A real page-turner, with a great twist in the final pages.
*The Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR*

Finishing this splendid and intelligent story, as with all great fiction, brings an acute sense of loss.
*The Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR*