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John le Carre
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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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…
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…
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John le Carre’s thriller is filled with twists as spymaster George Smiley follows a menacing espionage trail across Europe in this TV dramatization.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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Adam Sisman
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carr was alive
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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A beautifully designed new Clothbound Classic of le Carre's masterpiece, published to celebrate the novel's 50th anniversary
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…
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 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…
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…
Nick Harkaway
A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway
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The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside … John le Carre has seized this impossible turning point in history to give the most visceral experience yet of…
George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Geoffrey Palmer and…
Peter Guillam, colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, had retired to the family farm in France, but a letter from his old Service summons him…
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Bloomsbury –Title page verso.
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
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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…
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.
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…
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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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.
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…
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…
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 fifth outing George Smiley…
George Smiley, now chief of the…
The seventh Smiley novel sees a…
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.
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…
All cats are alike in the dark.
At the height of the Cold War, disillusioned British spy Alec Leamas is persuaded to stay out 'in the cold' for one last…
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