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Creation Lake is currently longlisted for the Booker Prize. Our reviewer believes it’s one of the most important novels to have been published in recent memory.
Alexander Howard stumbled on spymaster John Le Carré soon after relishing a James Bond film. And he was instantly hooked on George Smiley, Le Carré’s unglamorous bureaucrat-detective – an unlikely hero.
John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
Detailed accounts from original documents offer insights into the secret operations of the CIA in Africa.
The archive of David Cornwell’s work at the Bodleian Library in Oxford also reveals the depth of his collaboration with his wife Jane.
Le Carré drew on his own experience to change public perceptions of the world of spying.
Killing Eve may seem like an ultra-modern take on the spy genre but it is more traditional that it seems.
The former boss of British intelligence has lashed out at spy novelist John le Carré. The novelist is rather pleased.
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, University of Salford
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Research Fellow in German and Comparative Literature, University of Cambridge
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Director of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Historian and curator, University of Oxford