Robert Harris (novelist)

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Robert Harris is an English TV reporter and author, born in 1957 in the city of Nottingham. He attended King Edward VII College, Melton Mowbray, where there is now a hall named after him. As an undergraduate student, he read History at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was both President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the student newspaper Varsity. He currently lives in Berkshire, England. He is the brother-in-law of British novelist and essayist, Nick Hornby.

He is most famous for his successful novels, which are usually thrillers.

Fatherland (1992) ISBN 0061006629 (adapted as a HBO TV movie in 1994 [link])
Enigma (1995) ISBN 0099992000 (adapted as a movie in 2001 [link])
Archangel (1999) ISBN 0515127485 (adapted as a BBC mini-series in 2005 [link])
Pompeii (2003) ISBN 0091779251
Imperium (2006) Due to be published in the UK in September and in the USA in October.

Robert Harris has also written the following non-fictional books:

Good and Faithful Servant
Selling Hitler, which tells the story of the fraudulent Hitler Diaries
The Making of Neil Kinnock
Gotcha! The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis
A Higher Form of Killing (with Jeremy Paxman)

Rober Harris has appeared on BBC panel game Have I Got News For You, having been called up as a last minute replacement for no-shower Roy Hattersley (who was famously replaced by a tub of lard in a later no-show).

During one television news report outtake, he was presenting to camera and blocked the way of then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who stared at him from the side until he noticed from the corner of his eye (at least he did not turn his head before he started to grin, as did she)

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