The Night Manager

A beautifully polished, utterly knowing, and palpitating book. * Time *A marvellously observed relentless tale. * Observer *One of those writers who will be read a century from now. – Robert HarrisComplex and intense … page-turning tension. * San Francisco Chronicle *When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré … they were a journey into the wider world … These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind – Aung San Suu KyiOne of those writers who will be read a century from now – Robert HarrisHe can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction * Sunday Times (on ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’) *Return of the master … Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carré has done it again for our nasty new age * The Times (on ‘Our Kind of Traitor’) *

John le Carre was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5 & 6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carre widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel, Silverview, was published in 2021.