Brought to you by Penguin. A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy… Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carré. © Nick Harkaway 2024 (P)Penguin Audio 2024

Karla's Choice

Julian Lawndsley har opgivet sit prestigefyldte job i London og har slået sig ned som boghandler i en lille engelsk kystby. Men en aften, kun et par måneder efter karriereskiftet, får Julian besøg. Edward, en polsk emigrant, der bor i Sølvblik, det store hus i udkanten af ??byen, ved en hel del om Julians familie og er ualmindeligt interesseret i hans lille boghandel. En spionchef i London modtager et brev, der advarer om en faretruende lækage, og hans efterforskning fører ham til den stille kystby… Sølvblik er en intens historie om et møde mellem uskyld og erfaring og mellem samfundspligt og personlig moral. John le Carré stiller i romanen spørgsmålet: Hvad skylder vi egentlig de mennesker, vi elsker?

Sølvblik

Berlijn, tijdens de Koude Oorlog. Een Engelse topspion is geliquideerd en de Britse inlichtingendienst zint op wraak. Spion aan de muur is de klassieke thriller van John le Carré over internationale spionage ten tijde van de Koude Oorlog. Het is het verhaal van Alec Leamas, een ontslagen en aan lager wal geraakte agent, die in Oost-Duitsland een topspion moet redden die ontmaskerd dreigt te worden. Tijdens zijn verblijf wordt Leamas verliefd op Liz, een communiste. Ze beginnen een relatie waarmee ze hun leven op het spel zetten. John le Carré werkte zelf jaren als Brits geheim agent en schreef zijn klassieker Spion aan de muur in 1963 tijdens zijn verblijf in Duitsland tijdens de Koude Oorlog. Het boek betekende zijn internationale doorbraak als auteur.

Spion aan de muur

In deze laatste, briljante thriller van de grootmeester van het genre stelt John Le Carré de vraag wat je je land nog verschuldigd bent als het geheel van je is vervreemd. Silverview is de laatste, intrigerende thriller van de hand van grootmeester John le Carré. Het boek verschijnt postuum in de week dat Carré negentig zou zijn geworden. Julian Lawndsley heeft zijn goedbetaalde baan in de City van Londen de rug toegekeerd en is een boekhandel begonnen in een stadje aan de Engelse kust. Een paar maanden na de opening krijgt hij ’s avonds bezoek van Edward, een Poolse immigrant die in ’Silverview’ woont, een groot huis aan de rand van het stadje. Edward blijkt heel wat te weten over Julians achtergrond en heeft zelfs zijn vader nog gekend, beweert hij. Hij vraagt Julian de oren van het hoofd en komt al snel met grote toekomstplannen voor de bescheiden boekhandel. Als een kopstuk van de Geheime Dienst in Londen een brief over een gevaarlijk lek ontvangt, is het gedaan met de rust in Julians toevluchtsoord. Silverview is het fascinerende verhaal over een onwaarschijnlijke vriendschap en de confrontatie tussen onschuld en levenservaring, en tussen burgerplicht en persoonlijke waarden. ‘Le Carré heeft het vermogen op meer fronten tegelijk te opereren: de uitwerking van de super ingenieuze plot, van zijn zeer levensechte dialogen en van het karakter van zijn personages.’ Volkskrant magazine

Silverview

Aangeschoten wild van John le Carré is een thriller over de internationale oorlog tegen terrorisme, geheime diensten en het witwassen van geld. In Hamburg ontmoet Annabel Richter, een jonge, idealistische mensenrechtenadvocaat, de uitgehongerde islamistische asielzoeker Issa. Hij is de stad binnengesmokkeld voor een geheimzinnige missie, een die te maken heeft met de licht melancholische bankier Tommy Brue. Intussen zien de geheime diensten van drie naties ieder hun kans schoon om een doorslaand succes te boeken in de oorlog tegen terrorisme en dreigen zij drie goedwillende mensen op te offeren aan hun competitieve dadendrang en blinde ambitie. A Most Wanted Man (Aangeschoten wild) is meeslepend en geestig, maar ook indringend en hartverscheurend. Het is een verhaal vol warme menselijkheid dat een actueel en schrijnend beeld van het huidige West-Europa geeft.

Aangeschoten wild

The Little Drummer Girl (De lokvogel) van John le Carré is de ultieme thriller over het nog altijd actuele en emotioneel beladen Midden-Oostenconflict tussen Israëlis en Palestijnen. The Little Drummer Girl – John le Carré - Spanning The Little Drummer Girl (De lokvogel) van John le Carré is de ultieme thriller over het nog altijd actuele en emotioneel beladen Midden-Oostenconflict tussen Israëli’s en Palestijnen. Het boek is verfilmd en is nu te zien op NPO 2. The Little Drummer Girl is een onvergetelijk verhaal over het dilemma wie van de partijen recht heeft op onze loyaliteit. En over de jonge Engelse actrice Charlie, die op vakantie in Griekenland wordt benaderd voor de grootste acteerklus van haar carrière: het lokaas spelen waarmee de Mossad een Palestijnse terrorist probeert te vangen. ‘Le Carré verwerkt ingenieus de ingebouwde dubbele bodems van de Joods-Palestijnse confrontatie.’ **** VN Detective en Thriller Gids ‘John le Carré staat op eenzame hoogte.’ NRC Handelsblad

The Little Drummer Girl

Spion buiten dienst is de 25ste thriller van meesterverteller John le Carré en schetst een angstaanjagend actueel beeld van onze wereld. Nat, een 47-jarige veteraan van de geheime inlichtingendienst van Groot-Brittannië, gelooft dat zijn jaren bij de geheime dienst voorbij zijn. Hij is terug in Londen met zijn vrouw, de zachtmoedige Prue. Maar met de groeiende dreiging vanuit het Moskou Centrum heeft het kantoor nog een taak voor hem. Nat zal De Haven overnemen, een overbodig geworden onderstation van London General, samen met het uitschot van alle spionnen. Het enige lichtpuntje in het team is de jonge Florence; zij heeft haar ogen gericht op het Russische ministerie en op een Oekraïense oligarch, die een vinger in de Russische pap heeft. Nat is niet alleen een spion, hij is ook een gepassioneerde badmintonspeler. Zijn vaste maandagavondtegenstander, de introspectieve en eenzame Ed, is een stuk jonger dan hij. Ed heeft een hekel aan de Brexit en Trump, en hij haat zijn baan bij een zielloos mediabureau. Het is uitgerekend Ed die Prue, Florence en Nat op het pad van de politieke woede zal brengen, die hen allemaal zal verstrikken.

Spion buiten dienst

Een avondje ouderwets schrikken van een krakende trap, een deur die dichtslaat... Trompettist, De droomduiding van Sigmund Freud, Geheime inlichtingen, Ik spioneer, Taylors tocht, Lady of Spain, Hij kwam met de regen, Dollemansjacht, De Gettysburg hoorn.

Bloedverziekend

Met Een Erfenis van Spionnen grijpt meesterverteller John le Carré terug op zijn meest geliefde personage George Smiley en zijn bestsellers Spion aan de Muur en Edelman, Bedelman, Schutter, Spion. Met Een Erfenis van Spionnen grijpt meesterverteller John le Carré terug op zijn meest geliefde personage George Smiley en zijn bestsellers Spion aan de Muur en Edelman, Bedelman, Schutter, Spion. In een verhaal dat zindert van de spanning, de humor en de morele ambivalentie, confronteert Le Carré de lezer met een nalatenschap van onvergetelijke personages, zowel oude als nieuwe.

Een Erfenis van spionnen

Al dertig jaar wordt erover gesproken, nu is het boek er: de memoires van John le Carré. In dit boek gaat hij terug naar zijn beginjaren in Bonn, waar hij werkte voor MI6, de Britse inlichtingendienst, en beschrijft hij zijn complexe relatie met de Duitsers. Daarnaast schrijft hij over zijn reizen en de mensen die model hebben gestaan voor zijn onvergetelijke hoofdpersonages. Zo is er een portret opgenomen van Yvette Pierpaoli, de vrouw die hem inspireerde tot Tessa uit de De toegewijde tuinier. Daarnaast is er aandacht voor Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Yasser Arafat, diverse Engelse minister-presidenten én zijn ouders.

De duiventunnel

Brought to you by Penguin. West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined. Le Carré's searing Cold War novel creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred. 'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New Statesman 'Exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted' The New York Times © le Carré Productions 1968 (P)Penguin Audio 2024

A Small Town in Germany

‘You’re not to disturb, annoy or offend. They’re walking on a knife edge out there, anything could tilt the balance.’   Missing: one junior diplomat and 43 of the British Embassy’s most confidential files. The timing is alarmingly significant: with neo-Nazi riots and radical student demonstrations, the threat to Germany’s security  is all too apparent. Britain’s own Alan Turner is sent in, with instructions to tread carefully at all costs.   But will he find the missing man and the files before the political situation erupts?   Kenneth Haigh stars as Alan Turner with Bernard Hepton as Rawley Bradfield in a fast-paced, explosive dramatisation of John le Carré’s acclaimed spy story, dramatised by René Basilico.

A Small Town In Germany

In the third year of perestroika, London publisher Barley Blair is sent a manuscript from Moscow. Exposing Russian nuclear threats as a sham, the information - if it’s genuine - could shatter East-West relations. Jazz-loving, hard-drinking Blair is hardly the spymasters’ idea of the perfect agent, yet they are forced to send him to Moscow to make contact.   But the Cold War thaws when Barley meets Katya, the beautiful Russian intermediary who is equally sceptical of state ideology. Mere pawns in a deadly game of international espionage, they nevertheless represent the breakdown of hostilities and a future which poses a huge threat to the entrenched professionals on both sides...   Both a gripping spy saga and a poignant love story, The Russia House delivers all the excitement and tension expected from the master of espionage fiction.   This BBC Radio 4 adaptation was dramatised by René Basilico.

The Russia House

John le Carré was a bestselling author whose books include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. On this recording we hear - in his own words - about being brought up by his grandparents and feeling deserted by his mother and father. He talks about being creative as a means of escapism, by telling stories about his absent parents; as well as hating public school where he suffered severe beatings. We also hear about when he worked in the army as an interrogator and his experience working in British intelligence. He discusses becoming a writer, creating Smiley, working with Alec Guinness and why he hid behind two names. In addition, we learn about what he thought of awards - and critics. Due to the age and nature of this archive material, the sound quality may vary. ©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

In Their Own Words

John Le Carré In His Own Words

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised 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’.   The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world’s second oldest profession is very much alive. Smiley accepts an invitation to dine with the eager young men and women of the Circus’ latest intake; and over coffee and brandy, by flickering firelight, he beguilingly offers them his personal thoughts on espionage past, present and future. In doing so, he prompts one of his former Circus colleagues into a searching examination of his own eventful secret life.   Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Patrick Malahide as Ned, this engrossing dramatisation brings le Carré’s masterful novel vividly to life.   'A radio triumph... Simon Russell Beale’s pitch-perfect master spy' - Financial Times.

The Secret Pilgrim

Julian Rhind-Tutt is Magnus Pym in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of John le Carré’s superb spy novel Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile ‘Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.’ So says Magnus Pym, the spy of the title; and he has betrayed a lot in his life – countries, friends, family and lovers. When Magnus disappears after his father’s funeral, MI6 launches an urgent manhunt to prevent his defection. But Pym is on a search of his own – to unravel the mystery of what made him the perfect spy. Was it the duplicity of his con artist father, Rick? Or his MI6 mentor and father figure Jack Brotherhood? Or was it Axel, the Czech agent he has known since his teens? All have marked him in crucial ways, and as the net closes around Magnus, he attempts finally to make sense of his life and find the source of his talent for deception... A Perfect Spy is le Carré’s most autobiographical novel, and has been hailed as his masterpiece. This superlative radio production, starring Julian Rhind-Tutt, Bill Paterson, Michael Maloney and Anton Lesser, is a compelling exploration of identity, treachery and the complexities of the human heart.

A Perfect Spy

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn's daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent? 'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times, from the second world war to the 'war on terror'' Guardian 'The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . this is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years. John le Carré was never a spy-turned-writer, he was a writer who found his canvas in espionage, as Dickens did in other worlds. The two men deserve comparison' Daily Mail 'A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises' Observer 'With A Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and compelling of his recent oeuvre' The Times John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

A Delicate Truth

Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. Find the mole, George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary. Reluctantly Smiley agrees, and so embarks on a dark journey into his past - a past filled with love, duplicity and betrayal.   Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a star cast including Anna Chancellor, Alex Jennings, Kenneth Cranham and Bill Paterson, this epic dramatisation brilliantly depicts the complicated moral dilemmas of those who practise post-war espionage, and illuminates the murky corners of le Carré’s classic spy thriller - the first in the Karla trilogy.   '... a worthy audio version of the seminal spy drama, brilliantly depicting the complicated moral dilemmas of post-war espionage, and allowing Beale room to shine as the character of Smiley really comes into his own' - Herts Advertiser   'beautifully paced in a dramatisation which captures the essence of the book whilst working supremely well in its own right in the radio medium' - Chichester Observer   'This period dramatisation could not be bettered' - Observer

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised 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’.   Smiley, now head of the Circus, must rebuild trust in the shattered organisation. He is also determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks. He recruits Jerry Westerby, occasional spy, occasional news reporter, full-time romantic - the Honourable Schoolboy of the title - and despatches him to the Far East, where, amidst the corruption and decay of former colonies, a new battle is about to begin...   Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a star cast including Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Steed and Anna Chancellor, this gripping dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré’s intricate, intriguing novel, the second in the Karla trilogy.

The Honourable Schoolboy

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised 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’.   When word reaches 'The Department' - an ailing section of British intelligence - that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to show Control and Smiley, their rivals over at the Circus, that The Department still has value. Former spy Fred Leiser is lured back from retirement to investigate, and manages to cross the border into East Germany in a dangerous night-time operation.   But the world has changed since The Department's glory days during the Second World War. The harsh realities of the Cold War now prevail, and there is no place for heroes...   Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Ian McDiarmid and Philip Jackson, this compelling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré's chilling novel of deception and betrayal.

The Looking Glass War

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised 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 dramatisation, set in the early 1960s, sees George Smiley 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...   Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Geoffrey Palmer and Marcia Warren, this tense, compelling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré’s gripping, sophisticated thriller.

A Murder Of Quality

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised 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’.   It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt.   Leamas is recalled to London where, to his surprise, instead of being washed up and consigned to a desk he's offered a chance to have his revenge by becoming a pawn in a brilliantly-conceived plot to destroy Mundt. But in order to do so he has to stay out in the cold a little longer...   Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Brian Cox as Alec Leamas, this tense, compelling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, intricate thriller.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised 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’.   When a Russian émigré is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past. What follows is Smiley the human being at his most vulnerable and Smiley the case officer at his most brilliant; and it takes to a thrilling conclusion his career-long, serpentine battle with the enigmatic and ruthless Russian spymaster Karla...   Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Anna Chancellor, Lindsay Duncan, Maggie Steed, Alex Jennings and Kenneth Cranham, this enthralling dramatisation captures every nuance of le Carré’s complex and compelling novel - the final book in John le Carré’s Karla trilogy.   ‘a radio triumph... Simon Russell Beale’s pitch-perfect master spy’ - Financial Times.

Smiley's People

Magnus Pym, Counsellor at the British Embassy, is hosting a dinner party at his home in Vienna when he receives an unexpected telephone call that will profoundly affect his life. Once the guests have gone, Pym breaks the news to his wife, Mary: his father, Rick, is dead. In a state of shock, he says something Mary cannot understand - 'After all these years, I'm free.'   Magnus flies back to England to attend the funeral - and doesn't return. As Mary and MI6 spymaster Jack Brotherhood desperately try to find out his whereabouts, it soon becomes clear that Pym has been keeping secrets from both his family and his employers, the British Intelligence Service.   Hiding out in a remote cottage in Devon, where he goes by the name of Mr Canterbury, Magnus begins to write his memoirs - retracing his rise and fall and revealing how Rick led him step by step into a double life of deception, broken promises and betrayal...   This recording, adapted from the John le Carré novel by Rene Basilico, was believed lost from the BBC archive, but was rediscovered after almost twenty years and restored.

Brought to you by Penguin. Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective. THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL 'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty' Daily Telegraph ©le Carré Productions 1961, 1989, 2011 (P)Penguin Audio 2024

A Murder of Quality

Brought to you by Penguin. In John le Carré's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take 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. 'If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré's latest thriller' Evening Standard 'Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance' Sunday Times ©John le Carré 2010 (P)Penguin Audio 2024

Our Kind of Traitor

Brought to you by Penguin. Why was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client? How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast fortune that has mysteriously appeared in his daughter's trust fund? With customs officer Nat Brock on the trail, the answers point to the House of Single - once a respectable finance company, now entangled with a Russian crime syndicate. West is pitted against East, and the British establishment against a labyrinthine criminal superpower, in le Carré's searing novel of lives built upon lies. 'An adventure that takes us to the ends of the earth via the rich but often barren landscape of the human heart' The Times 'A masterly work, faultless fiction of the highest order' Glasgow Herald © John le Carré 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Single & Single

Brought to you by Penguin. Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meets Shamus and Helen - a dazzling, bohemian couple who are everything he is not. As he is drawn into their reckless and unpredictable orbit, all that Cassidy thought he understood about his orderly life begins to unravel. Told with le Carré's lacerating wit and penetrating observation, The Naive and Sentimental Lover is an acerbic satire of middle-class hypocrisies. 'Splendid ... le Carré shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling' The Times 'Le Carré is the equal of any novelist now writing' Guardian ©1971 le Carré Productions (P)2025 Penguin Audio

The Naive and Sentimental Lover

Brought to you by Penguin. An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the idealistic young human rights lawyer Annabel, determined to save him from deportation, he is a worthy cause. To the intelligence services of Britain, Germany and America, however, he is a potential jihadist - and a pawn between them as they seek to make a kill in the war on terror. A Most Wanted Man is a gripping and disquieting story of paranoia, disillusionment and betrayal in the moral no-man's land of the post-9/11 world. 'One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published' Guardian 'A first-class novel about the most pressing concerns of our time' Daily Telegraph © John le Carré 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

A Most Wanted Man

Brought to you by Penguin. As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter what he hears. But when he is summoned on a secret job for British Intelligence, he is told he will have to get his hands dirty. His mission is to help bring democracy to the Congo - democracy that will be delivered at the end of a gun barrel. The Mission Song is an excoriating depiction of a corrupt world where loyalty can be bought and war is simply an opportunity to settle old scores. 'Simply astonishing ... a formidably sophisticated work of fiction' Charles Cumming 'Mesmerising' Sunday Times ©David Cornwell 2006 (P)Penguin Audio 2024

The Mission Song

Brought to you by Penguin. Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his shop, Harry's fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can never hope to win. Le Carré's savage satire on the espionage trade is set in a corrupt universe without heroes or honour, where the innocent are collateral damage and treachery plays out as tragic farce. 'A work of rare brilliance' The Times 'A tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated' The New York Times Book Review © John le Carré 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

The Tailor of Panama

The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carre's taut, thrilling spy novels. Call for the Dead is the first Smiley novel, which sees him looking into an apparent suicide only to uncover a murderous conspiracy; A Murder of Quality finds Smiley investigating a murder in a private school; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold introduces Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters; The Looking Glass War features former spy Fred Leiser, lured back from retirement to investigate a claim that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the first book in the Karla trilogy, and sees Smiley searching for a mole who has infiltrated the Circus; The Honourable Schoolboy sees Smiley determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks; Smiley's People finds George Smiley called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past; The Secret Pilgrim sees Smiley invited to dine with the eager new recruits at the Circus. He offers them his thoughts on espionage and, in doing so, prompts a former colleague to re-examine his own eventful secret life. 'A radio triumph...Simon Russell Beale's pitch-perfect master spy' - "Financial Times". ©2016 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2016 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas

Brought to you by Penguin. John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. From The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which changed our understanding of the secret agent from guns and Martinis to shadows and moral ambiguity, to Agent Running in the Field, in which modern Britain is mired in political corruption, he catalogued our sins and recounted the journey of the Anglosphere into the twenty-first century. In these letters, le Carre´ reveals himself to be a consummate correspondent as well as a master novelist. A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre´'s own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live. At the heart of the collection is le Carre´ the writer: researching, creating and editing, engaging with readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, with politicians and public figures. We find le Carré writing to Alec Guinness to persuade him to take on the role of George Smiley, and later arguing the immorality of the War on Terror with the chief of the German internal security service. In A Private Spy what emerges is a portrait not only of the writer, or of the global intellectual, but, in his own words, of the very private, very passionate and very real man behind the name. © The Estate of John le Carré 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

A Private Spy

Brought to you by Penguin. Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the mysterious, battle-scarred Joseph recruits her into the Israeli secret services, she enters the dangerous 'theatre of the real'. As she acts out her part in an intricate, high-stakes plot to trap and kill a Palestinian terrorist, it threatens to consume her. Set in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict, this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable war. 'An exciting story, excitingly told' Observer 'Wonderful' The New York Times ©1983 John le Carré (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Brought to you by Penguin. THE FOURTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some standing in the Intelligence world. Desperate for glory and determined to outdo their rivals at the Circus, including George Smiley, they send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate is no longer his own. Showing men carried away by fear and pride, The Looking Glass War is a powerful, moving story of human frailty. 'A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies' New York Herald Tribune 'A book of rare and great power' Financial Times © John le Carré 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Brought to you by Penguin. THE FOURTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some standing in the Intelligence world. Desperate for glory and determined to outdo their rivals at the Circus, including George Smiley, they send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate is no longer his own. Showing men carried away by fear and pride, The Looking Glass War is a powerful, moving story of human frailty. 'A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies' New York Herald Tribune 'A book of rare and great power' Financial Times ©1965 le Carré Productions (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Brought to you by Penguin. In The Night Manager, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine. In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carré creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted. 'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer 'Le Carré is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' Guardian 'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris © John le Carré 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

The Night Manager

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by John le Carre. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Le Carré delivers a tale for our times . . . a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best' Robert McCrum, Observer ________________________________ Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age. _______________________________ 'A rich, beautifully written book studded with surprises. Narrative is a black art, and Le Carré is its grandmaster' Andrew Taylor, Spectator 'Blisteringly contemporary . . . Each new book from le Carré is refreshingly different and uniquely compelling' Economist 'Astute state-of-the-nation commentary' Guardian 'Subtle, wry and seamless, it's an utter joy, from first page to last' Daily Mail 'The master espionage novelist takes on Brexit and Trump in this tense and chilling portrait of today' Evening Standard Times Books of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year Guardian Books of the Year Sunday Times Books of the Year TLS Books of the Year Daily Mail Books of the Year Mail on Sunday's Best Books of the Year Apple Best books of 2019 © John le Carre 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

Agent Running in the Field

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré, read by Tom Hollander. Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, The Times 'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' Evening Standard 'Vintage le Carré. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has long retired to Brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War ghosts have come back to haunt him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good . . . 'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' Daily Mail 'Splendid, fast-paced, riveting' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times 'Remarkable. Vintage John le Carré. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carré's writing has got richer with age. Don't wait for the paperback' The Times 'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan 'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris

A Legacy of Spies

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Pigeon Tunnel. Written and read by John le Carré. 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carré endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. 'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian 'John le Carré is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times 'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi

The Pigeon Tunnel

Brought to you by Penguin. THE FIFTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus - even though it may be one of those closest to him. The first part of le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. 'Le Carré's masterwork' William Boyd 'A great thriller, the best le Carré has written' Spectator ©1974 le Carré Productions (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Brought to you by Penguin. THE FIRST GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the death, he begins his own investigation, meeting Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very day Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carré's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring spy George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit. 'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising . . . makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard' Sunday Telegraph 'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense' Observer 'The greatest spy novelist of all time' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph ©le Carré Productions 1961 (P)Penguin Audio 2024

Call for the Dead

Brought to you by Penguin. Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to Tessa, he unearths a conspiracy more disturbing, and more deadly, than he could ever have imagined. A blistering exposé of global corruption, The Constant Gardener is also the moving portrayal of a man searching for justice for the woman he has barely had time to love. 'The book breathes life, anger and excitement' Observer 'A cracking thriller' Economist © David Cornwell 2001 (P)Penguin Audio 2025

The Constant Gardener

Brought to you by Penguin. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it. © The Literary Estate of David 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Brought to you by Penguin. Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry ­- dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for. Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carré's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control. © John le Carré 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Our Game

Brought to you by Penguin. John le Carré's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them 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 ... 'Classic le Carré' Sunday Times © John le Carré 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Brought to you by Penguin. Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. Now, decades later, the Cold War is over and the war on terror has begun. Sasha has another mission for them both, but this time it is impossible to tell the difference between allies - and enemies. Set in a world of lies and shifting allegiances, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times. 'One of his most enthralling creations' Daily Telegraph 'Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Times © John le Carré 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Absolute Friends

Smileyn paluu! John le Carré on huipputerässä marssittaessaan näyttämölle joukon vanhoja tuttuja. John le Carrén kuuluisin vakooja George Smiley on tuttu lajityypin klassisimmista kirjoista ja tunnetuimmista elokuvasovituksista, joista varsinkin Pappi, lukkari, talonpoika, vakooja on jättänyt lähtemättömän jäljen. Vuosikymmenien jälkeen le Carré kääntää katseensa vielä kerran kohti Smileya ja kysyy mitä todella tapahtui. Vastaamaan joutuu toinen vanha mies, Smileyn suojatti Peter Guillam, joka kutsutaan takaisin salaiseen palveluun tekemään tiliä kylmän sodan aikaisista tapahtumista. Syyttäjinä toimivat uuden polven miehet, joilla ei ole mitään käsitystä siitä millaisessa maailmassa tuolloin elettiin. Vakoojan perintö palaa Mies kylmästä -kirjan maailmaan terävänä ja kristallinkirkkaana, tasapainoillen nerokkaasti vanhan moraalin ja uusien sääntöjen välillä.

Vakoojan perintö

Vakoilukirjallisuuden mestarin viimeiseksi jäänyt romaani. John le Carrén viimeinen romaani julkaistiin hänen kuolemansa jälkeen, viikolla, jolloin hän olisi täyttänyt 90 vuotta. Lontoon Cityssä vaurastunut ja rahamaailmaan kyllästynyt Julian Lawndsley on ostanut pienestä merenrantakaupungista piskuisen kirjakaupan, vaikka hän ei tiedäkään kirjallisuudesta juuri mitään. Kauppaan ilmestyy eksentrinen puolalainen emigrantti, joka kävi koulua Julianin isän kanssa ja jonka kuolemaisillaan oleva vaimo on brittien tiedustelupalvelun entinen päällikkö. Pariskunnan hämärä menneisyys nousee uudelleen esiin, kun kotimaantiedustelun päällikkö alkaa penkoa vanhaa tietovuotoa. Le Carrén jäähyväisissä viimeinen juonenkäänne yllättää ja solmii yhteen samalla kirjailijan koko uran. The Guardian valitsi kirjan vuoden 2021 viiden parhaimman jännityskirjan joukkoon.

Viimeinen henkäys

Klassinen vakoojatrilleri ja Le Carrén kansainvälinen läpimurtoteos Leamas oli palannut kylmästä ja pantu hyllylle kuten tiedustelupalvelun käytävillä kuiskailtiin. Hän alkoi mennä rappiolle, joi paljon ja vältteli työtovereitaan. Sitten sattui pieni kavallus, ja niin entinen vakooja oli työtön, ilman rahaa ja ilman ystäviä. Leamasin rappio oli ilmeinen - joidenkin mielestä. Hänet siepattiin ja vietiin itävyöhykkeelle. Nyt hän vihdoin oli lähellä päämääräänsä: itäsaksalaisen kilpaveikkonsa Mundtin tappamista, sen miehen joka oli tuhonnut kaikki Leamasin omat agentit. Mutta Lontoo-Berliini -akselilla tapahtui epämiellyttäviä yllätyksiä...

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