Henry Hitchings

Robert Harris’s gripping Act of Oblivion is let down by anachronisms

The evocation of period detail doesn’t always convince but Harris's novel is lucid and full of suspense

The execution of Charles I by French artist Picart (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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