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Mentioned by the assistant producer Tabby as a comparison to Morel's whistleblower story - described as 'the Robert Harris novel about the Dreyfus case' with its similar quality of uncovering hidden wrongdoing.

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Discussed extensively as the source novel for the film J'accuse about the Dreyfus affair. Dominic mentions reading it and being so engrossed he read from 6pm to 2am

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Discussed as a novel about the Dreyfus affair. The hosts praise it highly, saying 'it's amazing because you know exactly what's going to happen, and you keep telling pages to find out what's going to happen' and one host calls it 'actually his best novel.'

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Referenced as 'Robert Harris's book on Munich, Robert Harris's novel' when discussing Chamberlain's character. Dominic says 'There's a brilliant portrait of him, actually, in Robert Harris's book on Munich, Robert Harris's novel, where he really captures that sort of sense of Chamberlain's, his pride, his vanity.'

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Mentioned in discussion of Neville Chamberlain - 'Robert Harris really humanizes him in his book, Munich, which was made as well.' The hosts note it was adapted into a film with Jeremy Irons playing Chamberlain.

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Mentioned as a novel Robert Harris wrote that was inspired by Frontinus's book on aqueducts

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Described as a 'brilliant novel' set against the backdrop of a hydronaut engineer trying to work out why the springs have stopped flowing before the Vesuvius eruption, gradually arriving at the terrible truth

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Tom reads a passage from this 1998 thriller novel set in early Yeltsin-era Russia. The passage describes a British historian expert in Soviet history attending a conference in Moscow, where a journalist named O'Brien compares Russia to the Weimar Republic, listing six parallels including loss of empire, lack of democratic tradition, border troubles, anti-Semitism, economic crash, and the potential rise of a Hitler-like figure. Tom and Dominic use this to frame their discussion of 1990s Russia.

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Mentioned at the opening as a counterfactual novel imagining the Nazis winning World War II, used to introduce the topic of counterfactual history

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Mentioned as fantastic alternate history book, remembered reading on a bus desperate to finish