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The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman review – the constant philanderer

Three years after le Carré’s death, his official biographer reveals the adultery that was off limits during his lifetime. Does it further our appreciation of his work?

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The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman review – the spy who loved me

A chronicle of the author’s many affairs unable to be published during his lifetime

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The Pigeon Tunnel review – inside the extraordinary life of John le Carré

Errol Morris’s gentle interview allows the mesmeric writer to hold forth on how his relationship with dodgy dad Ronnie informed his life as a spy and novelist

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Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’

As he publishes a new standalone novel, the spotlight-shunning author of the Slow Horses books talks about politics, time-travel and identity-swapping

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Top 10 female spies in fiction

Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass

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Robert Gottlieb, celebrated editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, has died at 92

Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics.

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The Night Manager: rumoured season two release date, plot, cast, streaming

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The 100 best TV shows of all time

Here are the greatest TV shows ever made... find out what tops the list.

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A Private Spy audiobook review – the letters of John le Carré

David Harewood and Florence Pugh narrate this incisive collection, edited by the author’s son

The Guardian - UK

Second John le Carré biography to reveal secrets held back while author was alive

The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman, who published an authorised biography in 2015, promises ‘a hidden life of secrecy, passion and betrayal’

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Bad Sex Award cancelled, but John Le Carré’s still a winner

Judges say a tell-all memoir about the spy writer would have won this year

Evening Standard

A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 review – missives accomplished

An extraordinary collection of his letters reveals the secretive spy novelist’s loves and laments

The Guardian - UK

A Private Spy, edited by Tim Cornwell; The Secret Heart by Suleika Dawson review – John le Carré laid bare

An enjoyable collection of le Carré’s letters reveals a tetchy but warm man who strove to keep his books topical, while a former lover’s memoir leaves little unsaid

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‘The Russian Bond is on his way’: exclusive extracts from the letters of John le Carré

Former spy David Cornwell, best known as John le Carré, was a bestselling novelist but also a prolific letter-writer. Here we publish extracts from his correspondence with Alec Guinness, Graham Greene, Tom Stoppard and others

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‘Each envelope was a treasure’: how I became le Carré’s friend and reader

We communicated by hand-delivered letters, occasionally accompanied by a manuscript

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Mastermind’s Gestapo origins, immortal sitcoms and the birth of reality TV: 100 years of the BBC, part six

From ‘Basil!’ to ‘lovely jubbly’, welcome to the age of the classic sitcom – and the dawn of a new genre where nothing was off the table apart from ‘making love and going to the lavatory’

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Barack Obama shares his 2022 summer reading list

Former president recommends 14 books in a wide variety of categories

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Barack Obama issues his 2022 summer reading list

Former president recommends 14 books in a wide variety of categories

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Leave No Traces review – dense, detailed reconstruction of the killing of a Polish teen

An account of a murder in early 1980s Warsaw by communist-era police mixes John le Carré-ish intrigue with a documentary-like detachment

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Stephen L. Carter: Supreme Court’s leak investigation is self-destructive

In “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — John le Carré’s classic novel about the hunt for a traitor near the top of British Intelligence — the hero, George Smiley, tells a colleague that “the art” of being a mole “is to be one of a crowd.” The greater the number of…

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First editions annotated by Le Carré and Mantel to be auctioned

Other writers who have added handwritten thoughts for sale in support of English PEN include Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood

Bristol Post

Reaction as JK Rowling missed from Queen's Platinum Jubilee author list

Dr Liam Fox says brands omission as "disgraceful and cowardly"

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Top 10 novels about postwar Germany

Writers from John le Carré to Heinrich Böll and Bernard Schlink explore how the guilt and traumas of war are passed down to succeeding generations

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I’m thrilled we’ll get to read John le Carré’s letters – but what can this dying art reveal?

We like to think private correspondence reveals all, but the truth is a lot more complicated

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‘We are back in his company’: le Carré returns in a revealing collection of private letters

The author airs his views in posthumously published exchanges with family, friends and celebrity fans

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