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John le Carre
The young and beautiful Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her African lover has vanished, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur…
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Magnus Pym, counsellor at the British Embassy in Vienna, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a life-time secret agent. From…
Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a star cast including Anna Chancellor, Alex Jennings, Kenneth Cranham and Bill Paterson, this epic dramatisation brilliantly depicts the complicated…
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Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley…
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Adam Sisman
The Secret Life of John le Carre reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and…
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary…
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Bestselling author John le Carr has once again effortlessly expanded the borders of the spy novel to bring readers an exuberant, tense, heartbreaking and provoking entertainment straight out of the…
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Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities about an international businessman at the…
The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers…
Alex Leamas is tired. It’s the 1960s, he’s been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters. He has seen…
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The Cold War is at its most chill. Alec Leamas, a spent spymaster, leaves West Berlin for London. His informants are either exposed or dead; his operational usefulness is over…
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha…
When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the…
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Presents the story of one last breathlessly perilous assignment for the agent who wants desperately to end his career of espionage - to come in from the cold.
The epic New York Times bestseller by the master of international intrigue–now in paperback–spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy…
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered…
He recruits Jerry Westerby, occasional spy, occasional news reporter, full-time romantic - the Honourable Schoolboy of the title - and despatches him to the Far East, where, amidst the corruption…
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishment
George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is…
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A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold…
John le Carre’s thriller is filled with twists as spymaster George Smiley follows a menacing espionage trail across Europe in this TV dramatization.
'Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself' Nicholas Shakespeare
'Now that he is dead, we can know him…
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The much anticipated publication of John le Carre’s last complete novel now in paperback
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a…
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley, is living out his old age when a letter summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come…
A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain’s most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and…
Enthralling and thought-provoking, The Little Drummer Girl is le Carre’s only spy novel set in the Middle East, and is now published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.
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Richard Hutt,Herb Lester Associates
This guide explores the world of David Cornwell - better known as spy novelist John Le Carre - alongside that of his most famous creations - George Smiley and his…
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man’s death…
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
In le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers
At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely…
The author shares personal anecdotes from his life, discussing subjects ranging from his Cold War-era service in British intelligence to his work as a writer in Russia before and after…
Hailed as the literary master for a generation ( The London Observer ), New York Times -bestselling author le Carr returns with a stunning, compelling work set in Hamburg–a work…
Former British intelligence officer Jonathan Pine attempts to infiltrate the entourage of Roper, a sinister and powerful Englishman responsible for fitting together the pieces for a monumental arms-for-cocaine deal.
A naive young interpreter stumbles into the heart of an outrageous British plot in the astonishing new novel by the master of the literary thriller.
When a corporate lawyer from the firm of Single & Single is murdered in Turkey, a string of events occur, from the arrest of a Russian freighter to the disappearance…
Le Carre’s singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful…
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they…
A 26-year-old solitary figure, desperate to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a dangerous path.
George Smiley becomes tangled in a case of suicide and espionage in le Carre's first novel
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills…
As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, the Smiley Collection offers a special look for the books featuring John le Carre's most iconic character- George…
As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley
The seventh Smiley novel sees a…
George Smiley, now chief of the…
A department of ageing British spies…
A special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds…
In his second novel, also featuring…
In his fifth outing George Smiley…
Eric Homberger
In this study of John le Carre’, originally published in 1986, the first to include an interpretation of A Perfect Spy, Eric Homberger argues that within the tradition of the…
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