John le Carré
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Other writers who have added handwritten thoughts for sale in support of English PEN include Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood
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Final novels from John le Carré and Andrea Camilleri, dark psychological debut Girl A and more
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Published posthumously, this novel of secret service loyalty and treachery is a fine addition to the le Carré canon
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The great spy novelist’s final full-length book is a precision-tooled cat and mouse chase from a bookshop in East Anglia to the old eastern bloc
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He was the greatest English novelist of his generation, yet he chose to die as an Irish citizen of the EU. The reasons were both political and deeply personal, but at their heart one thing: betrayal
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Morals and duty clash in le Carré’s tale of a bookseller caught in a spy leak
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Willem Frederik Hermans thought the Briton’s famous book was based on his. Now one of his best works is coming out in the UK
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After Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes, Rumpole of the Bailey is the latest character to switch from male to female. However, for many series such a flip seems inconceivable
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The row over a new biography of Philip Roth has exposed the way agents and estates restrict access and manage archives to maintain a writer’s posthumous good name
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Finished before his death in December, le Carré gave his blessing to publish the novel, which follows a bookseller who becomes embroiled in a spy leak
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Author was so opposed to Brexit that he took Irish citizenship to remain European
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Nick Cornwell was one of few people who got to witness the collaboration between his mother Jane and father David, who wrote as le Carré
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CSIS included quote from A Perfect Spy in tweet about job postings, bewildering Twitter users
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The intelligence officer turned KGB agent who has died at 98 never belonged to Kim Philby’s elite traitors’ club
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