The Latest Breaking News from John le Carré

The return of The Night Manager makes it the perfect time to revisit the big and small screen adaptations of author John le Carré’s works – with a special focus on the spy thrillers of the past 25 years.

After 10 years of waiting patiently, The Night Manager season 2 is back... and boy does it defy all expectations.

This is a sweet genre leap for the star.

4/5 John Le Carré’s classic Cold War novel is brought to the stage in thrillingly classic fashion

Idiosyncratic American actor who starred in the film classics Annie Hall, The Godfather and Reds

How author researched his plots and letters from Alec Guinness feature in Oxford exhibition

John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating the shadowy ethics of Cold War intelligence. Gritty, ambiguous and deeply human,…

IN FOCUS: A new exhibition opens up the spy writer’s sprawling literary archive to shed light on his idiosyncratic creative process. Katie Rosseinsky explores how he brought George Smiley and co to life

To what do we owe our conscience? John le Carré once stated that all his fictional characters were, one way or another, navigating a world where duty to self is not necessarily duty to society.