DRAFT Robert Harris & John Sawers in conversion - History, politics and personality
Friday 4th December 2026
19:30 to 21:00
Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury, SN8 2QP
The novelist Robert Harris in conversation with Sir John Sawers, former Head of MI6:
History, politics and personality
Robert Harris studied English at Cambridge University and joined the BBC in 1978 as a reporter on Newsnight and Panorama. He later worked as a political editor and columnist on the Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph. He is the author of seventeen novels, including Fatherland, Enigma, Pompeii, The Cicero Trilogy, An Officer and a Spy, The Ghost, Conclave, Munich, Act of Oblivion, Precipice and most recently Agrippa.
His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and nine have been adapted for film and television. He has four children and has lived with his wife, Gill Hornby, in Kintbury, for the past 33 years.
Tickets £15 each - available from: Ramsbury Post Office; Ian Smith; and (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Doors open 6:30pm for a 7:30 start.
The novelist Robert Harris in conversation with Sir John Sawers, former Head of MI6:
History, politics and personality
Robert Harris studied English at Cambridge University and joined the BBC in 1978 as a reporter on Newsnight and Panorama. He later worked as a political editor and columnist on the Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph. He is the author of seventeen novels, including Fatherland, Enigma, Pompeii, The Cicero Trilogy, An Officer and a Spy, The Ghost, Conclave, Munich, Act of Oblivion, Precipice and most recently Agrippa.
His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and nine have been adapted for film and television. He has four children and has lived with his wife, Gill Hornby, in Kintbury, for the past 33 years.
Tickets £15 each - available from: Ramsbury Post Office; Ian Smith; and (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Doors open 6:30pm for a 7:30 start.
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