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Oct 11, 2019 · Ahead of publishing his 25th novel, le Carré talks to John Banville about our ‘dismal statesmanship’ and what he learned from his time as a spy
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Oct 4, 2019 · Sir Richard Dearlove, a former chief of the Secret Intelligence Service – SIS or MI6 – recently launched a critical broadside at John le Carré, accusing the acclaimed author of award winning spy...
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Dec 15, 2020 · This book and le Carré’s penultimate novel, A Legacy of Spies, show he was just as profoundly disillusioned by his own country, particularly by the vote on Brexit and the blow this struck against European integration, a cause he strongly supported. Last year he wrote: “I think my own ties to England were hugely loosened over the last few ...
Oct 11, 2019 · That le Carré, otherwise David Cornwell, has chosen to set his novels almost exclusively in the world of espionage has allowed certain critics to dismiss him as essentially unserious, a mere entertainer.
Dec 14, 2020 · Yet the most penetrating observations in his espionage novels were not about foreign adversaries or global conflict—they were about decaying old England. “They are the body corporate I once ...
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Dec 14, 2020 · We're remembering novelist John le Carre, who died on Saturday. Before he wrote about spies, he worked as a spy for Britain's domestic and foreign intelligence agencies.
