From Delia Owen to Stuart Turton, Julia Quinn, Richard Osman and John le Carré: The best audiobooks 

From Delia Owen’s debut to a murder mystery by Stuart Turton, The Duke And I by Julia Quinn, Richard Osman’s No1 and the late John le Carré’s masterpiece, the best audiobooks By Event Critics Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2021 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens      … Read more

Did John le Carré steal the real story of an MI6 spy for one of his bestsellers?

It was December 1996 and my father had just bought a copy of John le Carré’s newly published spy thriller, The Tailor Of Panama. When he saw that the book’s hero had almost the same surname as him, he smiled.  But the further he read, the more the coincidences began to pile up, and by … Read more

MI6 boss pays tribute to ex-agent John le Carré

MI6 paid tribute to legendary spy author John le Carré this morning, with the intelligence service’s head mourning the ‘giant of literature’. Chief Richard Moore gave his thoughts after the writer died yesterday following a short battle with pneumonia. Le Carré used to work at MI6 himself and its previous boss had once claimed his … Read more

Legendary spy writer John Le Carre dies aged 89

Legendary spy writer John Le Carre dies aged 89 after a short illness, his agent announces By Luke May For Mailonline Published: 22:02 GMT, 13 December 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 13 December 2020 Legendary spy writer John Le Carre has died at the age of 89 after a short battle with illness, his agent … Read more