Book description
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 world-wide
publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . .
Robert Harris is the author of
Fatherland
, Enigma
, Archangel
, Pompeii
, Imperium
and The Ghost
, all of which were international bestsellers. His latest novel,
Lustrum,
has just been published. His work has been translated into thirty-seven
languages. After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge
University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC's Panorama
and Newsnight
programmes, before becoming political editor of the Observer
and subsequently a columnist on the Sunday Times
and the Daily Telegraph
. The film of The Ghost
- for which he co-wrote the screenplay - directed by Roman Polanski and
starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan is due to be released at the
beginning of 2010. He is married to Gill Hornby and they live with their
four children in a village near Hungerford.
