Rollicking comedy

A riotous piece of virtuosity...divinely funny

'Touching and funny'

This is a thoughtful, humorous and often moving story about adoption and identity

The novel contains some fine playful moments, but it's when observing the real discomfort of not being loved, and not being known, that Yardley's writing shines.

Harris is brilliant at the political then-as-now, giving Caesar with a hint of Blair – and also of Thatcher

Staying close to the sources, Harris picks his way masterfully through Cicero’s personal and political dilemmas…superb…does full justice to one of Rome’s most interesting complex and humane statesmen, whose pragmatic political treatises proved so influential during the renaissance and enlightenment

Harris skilfully navigates these fraught years in Cicero’s life … Dictator triumphs

A superior historical thriller

Harris’ version of Cicero is a tremendous creation

[Dictator's] gripping dramas and powerful themes - the fragility of democracy and the fallibility of human beings among them - richly illuminate the conflicts of its era and our own

Superb…confirms Harris’s undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller

Harris is a masterful storyteller. I’m currently experiencing that terrible phase of cold turkey after finishing something superb

Contemporary echoes abound in this endlessly fascinating exploration of power struggles

Triumphant

A masterful story of political intrigue…a fascinating and absorbing novel

Robert Harris is an incomparable storyteller... It's a brutal tale of murder and mayhem and a tour de force of research and imagination...

I’m a big fan of Robert Harris so I’d like to read his latest, Dictator… Robert is very good at politics and evoking a period

Sinuous, clever and compelling…A fitting end to a magnificent trilogy

A riveting read

Robert Harris brings his Cicero trilogy to a triumphant, compelling and deeply moving conclusion…The three novels are surely the finest fictional treatment of Ancient Rome in the English language…distinguished by a mastery of the sources, sympathetic imagination, political intelligence and narrative skill

Harris’ Cicero is a bit special – a mix of genius and craft, kindness and pomposity, ambition and principle

Penetrating and utterly compelling

In Dictator, Robert Harris brings his trilogy on Cicero to a triumphant end. As one who has himself written novels set in the last years of the Roman republic and the first century of empire, I am happy to say that Harris reigns supreme. His Cicero is magnificent; couldn’t conceivably be done better