Found in: I Spy
 Adam Sisman - John le Carré: The Biography Book Launch

Adam Sisman - John le Carré: The Biography Book Launch

I Spy... John le Carré Weekender

Talk

Please note: This event took place in Oct 2015

John le Carré is still at the top, more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. From his bleak childhood - the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a serial-seducer and con-man - through recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, to his emergence as the master of the espionage novel, le Carré has repeatedly quarried his life for his fiction which includes some of the finest novels published. Written with exclusive access to le Carré himself, to his private archive and to many of the people closest to him, Adam Sisman has produced a major biography of one of the most important novelists alive today.

To launch the book, he will be in discussion with Robert McCrum, Associate Editor of The Observer.

Presented in partnership with Bristol Festival of Ideas.


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