A MEGA-BRAND AUTHOR: Robert Harris sales continue to grow, and his books go from strength to strength. His last book,
V2, was a
Sunday Times bestseller in hardback
AN UNMISSABLE CAMPAIGN: A new Robert Harris book is always a huge publishing event, supported by an widespread marketing and publicity campaign
FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER: the story of the biggest manhunt of the 17th centuryRobert Harris is the author of fifteen 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 and
Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
One of Harris's most compellingly paced to date . . . it is his best since FatherlandAct of Oblivion is a
belter of a thriller. It will be
compulsive reading for those who loved
An Officer and a Spy, Harris's book about the Dreyfus affair. Like that novel, the
research is immaculate. A
chewy,
morally murky slice of history is made into a
thriller that
twists and surprises. The
characters are strong and
we care about their predicament. The story stretches over continents and years, but
the suspense feels as taut as if the three main characters were locked in a room with a gun.
Act of Oblivion is a fine novel about a divided nation, about invisible wounds that heal slower than visible ones . . . it feels like an important book for our particular historical moment, one that shows the power of forgiveness and the intolerable burden of long-held grudgesHarris's books are always supremely readable -
he has practically trademarked the term 'master storyteller'[Harris] writes with a skill and ingenuity that few other novelists can match'From what is it they flee?'
He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'
1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason.
In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward of £100 hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive.
ACT OF OBLIVION is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.
