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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School- firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys 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. As Smiley probes further ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Smiley Collection
In his second novel, also featuring George Smiley, le Carre forsakes the world of espionage to reveal the secret heart of another peculiarly British institution- the public school.
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unrelia ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Magnus Pym, high-ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on- for a missing husband, a devoted father and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020 by John le Carré, John le Carre
$26.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to his final yearsA Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
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 years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
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 clos ...Show more
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an ...Show more
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by John le Carré
$19.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
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 ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Smiley Collection
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 man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. Bu ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
A beautiful 60th anniversary special edition of the novel that introduced the world to George Smiley, now with a new introduction by John le CarreAfter a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame ...Show more