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A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to the Cold War to his final yearsJohn le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietna...

An archive of letters written by the late John le Carrâe, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carrâe, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carrâe wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors and public figures. This collection is a treas...

A novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le CarréNat, 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 l...

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years-the secret world itself.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 ...

A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final yearsJohn le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Private Spy is the story of that life told through the voice of this masterful writer.We hear le Carré as a teenager and then as a young man trying...

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 tur...

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Zum 90. Geburtstag des großen Schriftstellers und Bestsellerautors John le Carré Julian Lawndsley hat seinen Überflieger-Job in London drangegeben für ein einfacheres Leben als Buchhändler in einem kleinen englischen Küstenort. Kaum ist er ein paar Monate dort, stört ein abendlicher Besucher seine Ruhe. Edward, ein polnischer Emigrant, der auf Silverview lebt, dem großen Anwesen am Ortsrand, scheint viel über Julians Familie zu wissen und ze...

Brought to you by Penguin.In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself.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 ...

In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself.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...

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 tur...

George Smiley - Der Spion, der Geschichte schrieb George Smiley verliert nach einer gescheiterten Operation seinen Posten, wird jedoch für einen letzten, gefährlichen Auftrag aus dem Ruhestand geholt: Er soll einen Doppelagenten enttarnen, der für Moskau den britischen Geheimdienst ausspioniert. Mit der Unterstützung seiner engsten Vertrauten begibt sich Smiley ins Reich des großen Gegners ...

A beautiful 60th anniversary special edition of the first George Smiley novel, now with a new introduction by John le CarréAfter 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 man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day th...

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years-the secret world itself. 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...

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Jonathan Pine ist der Nachtmanager eines Hotels in Ägypten. Wenn ihm geheime Informationen gezeigt werden, gibt er sie an einen Mann der britischen Regierung weiter. Aber die Dinge gehen schief, und die Frau, die er liebt, stirbt. Pine ist wütend und erklärt sich bereit, mit anderen zusammenzuarbeiten, um Roger Roper - den "schlimmsten Mann der Welt" - zu fangen.

A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le CarréNat, 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 brig...

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Som...

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 attemp...