In his novel Imperium, Robert Harris charted Cicero's rise to the consulship of the Roman republic. The story was narrated by Cicero's slave Tiro – who really was the orator and statesman's secretary, ...

The historical thrillers by the English novelist Robert Harris often threaten to cave in under the weight of the research Harris pours into them. He’s a wordy writer at the best of times and his books ...

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Robert Harris tells Tom Holland why he finds the world of ancient Rome, and the great orator Cicero, so thrilling in his new novel Lustrum To those of us who feel that there is nothing wrong with this ...

In his novel Imperium, Robert Harris charted Cicero's rise to the consulship of the Roman republic. The story was narrated by Cicero's slave Tiro – who really was the orator and statesman's secretary, ...

Lustrum is one of those intriguingly Janus-faced words. As the definition that serves as one of Robert Harris's epigraphs explains, it means at once "a lair" or "debauchery", but it is also the name ...

The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, is not obviously the stuff of popular fiction. Cicero was an intellectual, a great public figure and a good man in bad times — ...

Thank goodness Robert Harris is only 52. He plans to write novels for at least another 20 years, and if he keeps up his current output of three every two years, we've got another 30 volumes of ...