John le Carre Value Collection: Tailor of Panama, Our Game, and Night Manager (The John Le Carre Collection)
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mumbai – It’s a plot that could be straight out of the bluff-and-double-bluff worlds created by John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth. Only, it seems to have played out in real life, to the tragic misfortune of hundreds of innocent people. The tantalising possibility that David Coleman Headley may have been a US undercover agent [...]
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
North Korean soldiers march along the North Korean side of the border fence near Dandong, China. Ng Han Guan / AP Aiding North Korea Defectors: A High-Stakes Spy Mission -- L.A. Times A recent operation offers a peek inside the 'underground railroad,' a network of safe houses and secret border crossings that assists in the escape of North Korean refugees. Reporting from Seoul - As he cased the security...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The UK-based film company plans a sequel to the 2003 Rowan Atkinson-starring spy spoof, as well as a new adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Bad news for anyone who thought that Johnny English's licence had been revoked. The Guardian can exclusively reveal that the bumbling British spy is set for another mission, with Rowan Atkinson in talks to reprise his role from the...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Booklover - Herald on Sunday - 15 November, 2009 Mark Crysell is the Europe correspondent for TVNZ News & Current Affairs The book I love most is....the nominees are: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, a haunting white trash epic, devastatingly written. Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, beautiful evocative writing about why we travel. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, a classic, I've read it five...
Malcolm Redfellow revivus (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
There's only one rule: expediency . It's better than flea-ridden beds : But first: Two mentions in a few days: is Malcolm becoming a cyber-stalker? Anne Marie Hourihane in the Irish Times on Monday was recounting her: main memory of our 24-hour stay in the Berlin of November 1989 is of looking for people to interview, then interviewing them until their ears bled... East Berlin itself looked very much...
Nipper News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Waterstones is currently offering buy one get one free on 150 of this year’s biggest selling books!! This offer features brilliant bestsellers like John Le Carre’s A Most Wanted Man or My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult! Hurry though, offer available for a limited period only. There is also a new voucher code live until midday tomorrow [...]
the purest of treats (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
He never graduated high school. He laid brick and cinder blocks for a living. Sometimes he pointed out houses and other buildings he had worked on. He used to tell me, "I worked hard, very hard." He started reading seriously as a young boy. He knew a lot about history and geography. When I knew him he read mainly fiction. He liked most kinds of popular novels but especially ones that were...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The announcement that John le Carre is moving from Hodder & Stoughton, his publisher for 38 years, to Penguin is not one that will unduly concern his legion of readers. It's what's published that matters, not who publishes it....
Cashback Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Waterstones are currently offering buy one get one free on 150 of this year’s biggest selling books. This offer features brilliant bestsellers like John Le Carre’s A Most Wanted Man or My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult! Hurry though, offer only available for a limited period only. You can also save 10% when you spend £40. Simply [...]
Good Stuff NW (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Let's just say it was within an hour of Portland. On a mountain. At an undisclosed location. And yes, if I told you where it was I'd have to kill you. Or it would be my neck in a noose. "Pick me! Pick me!" But that's the way the mushroom-foraging world works. Secrecy. Blindfolds. Sworn statements. So when my friend Kate told me she was going up to one of her favorite spots to pick chanterelles,...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
In The Observer Andrew Anthony profiles John le Carré: A man of great intelligence .
Thoughts from Botswana (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
I am off today to collect the Boy Giant Teenager from boarding school/prison. It is apparently the boy's 16th birthday today. I've been operating from the fact that he's 13 and the sister is 15 but apparently time has passed- that of course has implications on me that I would not like to scratch at. In Botswana, unlike in America where I grew up, 16 is not such an important birthday since children...
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
We are at a point in history where social crises keep crashing into environmental ones and a call out of the blue from contacts in Nairobi illustrates how rapidly. Kenya, right now, is in the middle of a drought. In the rural north the drought is already destroying the nomadic way of life (see this report from the Observer, and this from the BBC ). But it is also impacting on the fragile social infrastructure...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The relationship between writers and their paymasters has always been uneasy, as the veteran author's move demonstrates Divorces everywhere. First Peter and Jordan, now John Le Carré and Hodder. Why should the fact that a novelist changes the merchandiser of his books be of more headline interest than, say, Martin Amis changing his dentist? Who cares? When the book trade was a cottage industry...
gaskella (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Howards End is on the landing by Susan Hill That pesky Susan Hill! She's managed to set the book-blogging world alight with her latest - a memoir about reading the books in her house and the stories they are associated with. HEIOTL, as I shall abbreviate it to, has become a blogging hot topic - but in the nicest possible way... At the heart of HEIOTL is Hill's decision not to add to her house full...
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