Pompeii

Robert Harris is the author of sixteen 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, The Second Sleep, V2, Act of Oblivion and Precipice. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

"Blazingly exciting... Harris, as Vesuvius explodes, gives full vent to his genius for thrilling narrative... pulse-rate-speeding masterpieces of suffocating suspense and searing action" Sunday Times "Robert Harris's Pompeii is his best yet: as explosive as Etna, as addictive as a thriller, as satisfying as great history - Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Books of the Year'" Daily Telegraph "Breakneck pace, constant jeopardy and subtle twists of plot... a blazing blockbuster" Daily Mail "Harris has done a tremendous job in evoking life in ancient Italy... I am lost in admiration at his energy and skill" Mail on Sunday "The long drawn-out death agony of the two cities is brilliantly done. Explosive stuff indeed" Daily Telegraph