discussed his novel The Fear Index which he likened to a modern-day Gothic novel along the lines of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Harris also discussed the adaptation of his novel, The Ghost that came out as the movie, The Ghost Writer directed by Roman Polanski. Columnist Harris was a columnist for The Sunday Times, but gave it up in 1997. He returned to journalism in 2001, writing for The Daily Telegraph. He was named "Columnist of the Year" at the 2003 British Press Awards. Personal life Harris lives in a former vicarage in Kintbury, near Hungerford in Berkshire, with his wife, Gill Hornby, herself a writer and sister of best-selling novelist Nick Hornby. They have four children. Harris contributed a short story, "PMQ", to Hornby's 2000 collection Speaking with the Angel. Formerly a donor to the Labour Party, he renounced his support for the party after the appointment of Guardian journalist Seumas Milne as its communications director by leader Jeremy Corbyn. He now supports the Liberal Democrats. Works Fiction Fatherland (1992) Enigma (1995) Archangel (1998) Pompeii (2003) Imperium (2006) (Vol 1 of the Cicero Trilogy) The Ghost (2007) Lustrum (2009) (Vol 2 of the Cicero Trilogy, retitled Conspirata for release in US and Italy) The Fear Index (2011) An Officer and a Spy (2013) Dictator (2015) (Vol 3 of the Cicero Trilogy) Conclave (2016) Munich (2017) The Second Sleep (2019) V2 (2020) Act of Oblivion (2022) Short stories PMQ, short story in the collection Speaking with the Angel. London: Penguin, 2 November 2000 Screenplays The Ghost Writer (2010) An Officer and a Spy (2019) Non-fiction A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare (with Jeremy Paxman). London: Chatto & Windus, March 1982 Gotcha! The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis. London: Faber and Faber, January 1983 The Making of Neil Kinnock. London: Faber and Faber, 17 September 1984 Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries. London: Faber and Faber, 17 February 1986 Good and Faithful Servant: The Unauthorized Biography of Bernard Ingham. London: Faber and Faber, December 1990 Awards and nominations Honours He was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) by the University of Leicester on 22 July 2022. References Further reading External links Robert Harris official website Robert Harris official Twitter transcript of interview with Ramona Koval on The Book Show ABC Radio National 13 November 2007 1957 births Living