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Robert Harris
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- Narrated by: Robert Harris
- Length: 14 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Art & Literature
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Selling Hitler
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler. What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for worldwide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story....
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The Hitler Diaries
- By D. R. Croft on 24-06-18
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V2
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s - ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound, which he believed would win the war. Dr Rudi Graf who, along with his friend Werner von Braun, had once dreamt of sending a rocket to the moon, now finds himself in November 1944 in a bleak seaside town in Occupied Holland, launching V2s against London. No one understands the volatile, deadly machine better than Graf, but his disillusionment with the war leads to him being investigated for sabotage.
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I loved the combination of fact and fiction.
- By catherine on 22-09-20
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The Second Sleep
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Late one afternoon in April in the Year of Our Risen Lord 1468 a solitary traveller was to be observed picking his way on horseback across the wild moorland of that ancient region of south-western England known since Saxon times as Wessex....
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Something different that will make you think...
- By Seayeaitch on 06-09-19
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The Ghost
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...'The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour.
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Just Short of Excellent
- By Simon Zohhadi on 05-10-16
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Pompeii
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Only one man is worried.
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A excellent listen. Highly recommended
- By Ivan on 30-07-15
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Conclave
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roy Mcmillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
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Bizarrely gripping
- By Biker on 12-01-17
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Selling Hitler
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler. What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for worldwide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story....
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The Hitler Diaries
- By D. R. Croft on 24-06-18
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V2
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s - ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound, which he believed would win the war. Dr Rudi Graf who, along with his friend Werner von Braun, had once dreamt of sending a rocket to the moon, now finds himself in November 1944 in a bleak seaside town in Occupied Holland, launching V2s against London. No one understands the volatile, deadly machine better than Graf, but his disillusionment with the war leads to him being investigated for sabotage.
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I loved the combination of fact and fiction.
- By catherine on 22-09-20
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The Second Sleep
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Late one afternoon in April in the Year of Our Risen Lord 1468 a solitary traveller was to be observed picking his way on horseback across the wild moorland of that ancient region of south-western England known since Saxon times as Wessex....
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Something different that will make you think...
- By Seayeaitch on 06-09-19
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The Ghost
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...'The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour.
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Just Short of Excellent
- By Simon Zohhadi on 05-10-16
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Pompeii
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Only one man is worried.
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A excellent listen. Highly recommended
- By Ivan on 30-07-15
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Conclave
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roy Mcmillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
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Bizarrely gripping
- By Biker on 12-01-17
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An Officer and a Spy
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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January 1895: On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of 20,000 spectators baying ‘Death to the Jew!’ The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of ‘the Statistical Section’ - the shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus.
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Excellent
- By Julian Summer on 12-10-13
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Fatherland
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich.
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Thought Provoking
- By Amazon Customer on 16-02-18
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Imperium
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator, determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state.
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Superb story, utterly superb narration.
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-17
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Munich
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Set over four days against the backdrop of the Munich Conference of September 1938, Munich follows the fortunes of two men who were friends at Oxford together in the 1920s. Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Office - and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. They have not been in contact for more than a decade.
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excellent, shame a key passage was missing!
- By Toast Cartoons on 02-10-17
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The Fear Index
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend – a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions.
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Unpleasantly close to the present
- By Nils on 08-10-11
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Enigma
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Alan Howard
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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At Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. As suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, and Jericho is suspected, his girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly, suddenly disappears.
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Abridge
- By Emilie on 03-02-15
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Buddenbrooks
- The Decline of a Family
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 57 mins
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First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck.
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Five Star
- By Hugh M. Clarke on 01-04-17
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The Thirty-One Kings
- Richard Hannay Returns
- By: Robert J. Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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In his final novel, Sick Heart River, John Buchan predicted that with the outbreak of a second world war Richard Hannay and all his companions of old would be going back into action. In The Thirty-One Kings, the tale of their adventures is finally told. June 1940. As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In Paris an agent, codenamed 'Roland', has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of the Nazis.
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Sketchily developed plot
- By H. Tollyfield on 02-05-18
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Archangel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.
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A let-down
- By Artemis on 19-02-17
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France
- A Short History: From Gaul to de Gaulle
- By: John Julius Norwich
- Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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John Julius Norwich (at 88) has finally written the book he always wanted to write, the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best. From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains to Charlemagne through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and beyond, France is packed with heroes and villains, adventures and battles, romance and revolution. Full of memorable stories and racy anecdotes, this is the country that has inspired the rest of the world to live, dress, eat - and love better.
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A Love letter to France
- By Daniel Johnstone on 09-04-18
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First Lady
- The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill
- By: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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Without Churchill's inspiring leadership, Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife, Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Winston's emotional rock and his most trusted confidante. Yet her ability to charm Britain's allies and her humanitarian efforts on the home front earned her deep respect.
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Wonderful!
- By Sue F on 10-02-18
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Fermat's Last Theorem
- The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years
- By: Simon Singh
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world.
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Great story, narration
- By Malthe S. on 20-11-18
Summary
Author of 11 best-selling novels including the Cicero trilogy, Fatherland and An Officer and a Spy, former journalist and master of thrillers Robert Harris visits the Audible Studios to discuss his latest novel, Munich, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich conference in 1938 that changed history.
Harris' journey into publishing began with nonfiction titles such as A Higher Form of Killing and The Making of Neil Kinnock, but after winning a contract in 1991 to write a biography of Le Carre's life, things took a dramatic turn. Le Carre would not allow the biography to be published until after his death, so Harris went about preparing the first of his fiction titles, Fatherland, which consequently changed his life and thrust Harris into the limelight. Robert's unique ability to weave fiction through historical events makes him one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, and he's here to discuss the inspiration behind Munich, the intricate research behind his books and the underlying current throughout all of his novels.
Listen to Munich here.
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- David from Edinburgh
- 22-01-20
Intriguing
Some very interesting insights from a brilliant writer. Looking forward to next books. He never misses
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- DocC
- 14-07-19
Interesting insight
Fantastic short insight into Robert Harris and how and why he chooses his material and his style of writing. . His books are brilliant. Very well written leaving the reader engrossed and wanting more.
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- William
- 04-01-19
Interesting and illuminating
The reflections of Robert Harris are well worth hearing. The interviewer is jejune and gauche, and clearly doesn't normally do this kind of work.