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Review: 'Act of Oblivion,' by Robert Harris

FICTION: A page-turning historical thriller about a manhunt for the killers of an English king.

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Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – regicides on the run

In 1660, after the Restoration of the monarchy, two of Oliver Cromwell’s soldiers fled to America to escape execution. Harris is at his best in this fictionalisation of their escape and the quest to find them

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Fairy Tale by Stephen King and Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris.

The Independent UK

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Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – a master writer leads us on a 17th-century manhunt

This rich and riotous novel, following the search for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, is also an important book for our own historical moment

The Guardian - UK

Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

‘We want a queen who is like a parent’: Observer writers down the decades on the monarch’s reign

A selection of this newspaper’s writing about the monarch since she became queen when, as the fashion editor wrote, ‘surprise is an undesired quality’

The Guardian - UK

Seven Glasgow street characters locals have loved from Harry the Hat to Hairy Mary

From robot dancers to eccentric sellers in the Barras, there's been plenty of Glasgow characters that have captured the hearts of locals.

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Londoner’s Diary: Rory Stewart mulls a return to the political fray

In today’s Diary: Rory Stewart ponders a return / Gary Lineker says more footballers will come out / Guilty Feminist on the ‘trans debate’ / Robert Harris couldn’t invent partygate

Evening Standard

Meet the former Nazi rocket scientist who all too accurately saw the future

As well as serving in the SS and a second act as a Nasa engineer, Wernher von Braun wrote a Martian sci-fi novel with a prescient twist…

The Guardian - UK

Rising Damp and Home to Roost creator Eric Chappell dies aged 88

Eric Chappell was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in September 1933

Wales Online

On my radar: Ed Balls’s cultural highlights

The author and former Labour MP on steamy hospital dramas, Stanley Tucci’s charisma and his current favourite cookbook

The Guardian - UK

The Fear Index: Adaptation struggles to live up to Robert Harris’s ingenious techno-thriller

Josh Hartnett’s performance and the intriguing premise are enough to keep ‘The Fear Index’ rolling along, but the production sometimes lapses into cliché

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Josh Hartnett’s capitalism-crushing thriller The Fear Index

In Sky Atlantic’s new Robert Harris adaptation, a hedge funder has an algorithm that can destroy the world’s financial markets. Plus: First Dates and Forbidden Art. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Munich by Robert Harris audiobook review – inside the backrooms of power

David Rintoul is the authoritative narrator of this thriller about the negotiations between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the leadup to the second world war

The Guardian - UK

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