Robert Harris is the author of
Act of Oblivion, Pompeii, Enigma, and
Fatherland. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for London’s
Sunday Times and
Daily Telegraph. His novels have sold more than ten million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and four children.
Samuel West’s long and distinguished career on stage and screen has earned him roles in Cambridge Spies, Waking the Dead, Notting Hill, and Iris, as well as a BAFTA nomination for his performance in Howards End. He has also narrated several audio books, including Sebastian Faulks’ Charlotte Gray, for which he won a Talkie Award, and Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders.