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Truth in fiction

Robert Harris on fake facts, his new novel – and why totalitarianism is in the air again

14 October 2017

9:00 AM

14 October 2017

9:00 AM

The Sunday Times’s literary editor Andrew Holgate recently tweeted the news that Robert Harris’s latest thriller had entered the bestseller list at No. 2: ‘Pipped to the post by Ken Follett.’ Harris retweeted it: ‘Well done Ken. You bastard.’

Pipped to the post only by Follett. That’s the level Harris is at now.

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