John Le Carré

This novel, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting....

The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley....

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past 60 years - the secret world itself....

Mr George Smiley is small, podgy, and at best, middle-aged. He is disillusioned, wrestles with idleness, and has been deserted by his beautiful wife....

Setting a standard that has never been surpassed, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a devastating tale of duplicity and espionage....

Alec Leamas has ended his time in Berlin. Or his time has ended him. The last of his Eastern agents has been killed, like the others, by the Abteilung. Back at the Circus, Leamas is put on the shelf....

The night manager is Jonathan, a veteran of clandestine operations. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past....

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, is living out his old age when a letter from his old Service summons him to London....

Magnus Pym, counsellor at the British Embassy in Vienna, has suddenly vanished, believed defected....

The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network, and Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby....

George Smiley was summoned from his dubious retirement by two seemingly unconnected events....

Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before....

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap....

It is the third summer of perestroika. Niki Landau, philanderer and travelling rep, attends the first Moscow audio fair and is asked by beautiful young Katya to take a parcel back to England....

Nat, a 47-year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over....

Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes....

The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scene of the crime....

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar....

The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market....

Ned has been in British Intelligence - the Circus - all his life. Now change forces him to visit those secret years....