"We are mortal men; we serve an ideal. We cannot always be ideal." At the center of Robert Harris' 2016 novel Conclave is this admission, a musing on the tension between the pernicious influence ...

Did they or didn’t they actually have sex? This was the question for Robert Harris, éminence grise of fiction, bestseller, political zeitgeister, father of three, and, at 67, newly a first-time ...

The film is based on the novel by Robert Harris, who joined Geoff Bennett to break down the complicated process of electing the next pontiff. Three thousand and two hundred percent, that is the ...

Robert Harris explains the Vatican process that inspired his story. With Pope Francis's funeral drawing more than 200,000 expected attendees on Saturday, interest in the papal succession process ...

Author tells Hay Festival that since his novel was adapted into a successful film he is seen as an authority on the papacy ...

As the 2024 movie “Conclave‚” based on the 2016 novel of the same name by British author Robert Harris, depicted, the College of Cardinals will assemble for their conclave in Rome in the ...

Based on the bestselling 2016 novel by Robert Harris, it details the process where cardinals (male, under the age of 80) from across the world gather in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel for a ...

Before we headed to Rome, we talked to Robert Harris, the author of "Conclave," to talk about what he's thinking about ahead of this real-life one. Is it true that the election of Pope Francis was ...

One of Britain’s best-selling modern novel writers, Robert Harris is best-known for his works of historical fiction. From Fatherland and The Ghost to Conclave, which was recently adapted into an ...