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John Le Carre'

Ballentine

Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Michael Frederic Thomas

Thrillers & Suspense

Hutchinson Educ.

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Variety

[A BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatization starring Simon Russell Beale]The award-winning Simon Russell Beale stars as George Smiley in this BBC Radio 4 dramatization of John le Carres second Smiley novel. The distinguished cast includes Geoffrey Palmer and Marcia Warren. This tense, compelling dramatization perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carres gripping, sophisticated thriller.George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realized characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ''the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin.''This dramatization, set in the early 1960s, sees him investigating a murder in a public school. When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to death, Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, agrees to look into the case. But his investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night? To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds.

A Murder of Quality

Literature & Fiction

Signet

Granta is a leading literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom. Initially founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, it was successfully relaunched as a magazine of "new writing" in 1979. Granta is a literary quarterly with a distinctive mix of fiction, personal history, reportage, and documentary photography.

Granta 35, Spring 1991: The Unbearable Peace

Patrick Süskind

John, Berger

nadine-gordimer

Contemporary

Granta Books

Ned is the Secret Pilgrim, a loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, just as retirement is within his grasp, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years and face the questions that have haunted him for thirty years.

The Secret Pilgrim

Penguin??Books

"A remarkable book by the master. Reading it is a great experience". (Henning Mankell, "Daily Telegraph"). An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment. "Chilling and astute...In "Our Kind of Traitor", there is not a hair out of place...le Carre has done it again for our nasty new age". ("The Times"). "A compelling tale of deceit, dialogue and the author's own despair...This is a story with frenzy at its heart". (James Naughtie, "Telegraph"). "John le Carre's bullet train of a new thriller is part vintage John le Carre and part Alfred Hitchcock...The author's most thrilling thriller in years". ("The New York Times").

Our Kind of Traitor. John Le Carr

VIKING

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Penguin Classics

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries ...In his first post-glasnost spy novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them.

The Russia House. John Le Carr

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 reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.

The Secret Pilgrim. John Le Carr

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