John le Carré

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....

It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters....

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....

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

Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent....

Tom Baker stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré’s powerful thriller....

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend....

A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or maybe not....

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

Set in contemporary, recession-gripped Britain, a left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua....

Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance, John le Carré's A Small Town in Germany is a superb chronicle of Cold War paranoia and political compromise....

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

A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand...

With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma....

In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer....

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

Abandoned by his parents, Bruno Salvador has long looked for guidance. He found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence....

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....

Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning 56 years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours....

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré’s last Smiley novel....