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A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Smiley's People | Reading Level: very good
The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast ...Show more
A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Smiley | Reading Level: very good
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 h ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | 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 Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary 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
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by John le Carré
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | 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
Our Game by John le Carré
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Le Carre'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, disso ...Show more
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: good
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsg rd, and Damian Lewis. In the wake of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who ...Show more
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
$40.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsg rd, and Damian Lewis. In the wake of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who sty ...Show more
Silverview by John le Carré
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 hi ...Show more