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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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

Bristol Post

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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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Letters of John le Carré to be published in November

A book coming out this fall will show readers a more personal side of the late John le Carré

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