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Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over four decades.To keep these relationships secret, he made use of tradecraft that he had learned as a spy: code names and cover stories, cut outs, safe houses and dead letter boxes. Such affairs introduced both jeopardy and excitement into what was otherwise a quiet, ordered life. Le Carré seemed to require the stimulus they provided in order to write, though this meant deceiving those closest to him.It is no coincidence that betrayal became a recurrent theme in his work. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, revealed much about the elusive spy-turned-novelist; yet le Carré was adamant that some subjects should remain hidden, at least during his lifetime. The Secret Life of John le Carré is the story of what was left out, and offers reflections on the difficult relationship between biographer and subject.More than that, it adds a necessary coda to the life and work of this complex, driven, restless man. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject.

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In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. 'Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' Guardian 'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine. In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.

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In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.

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This is the first novel in over twenty-five years to feature George Smiley, le Carre's most beloved character. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinised under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

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''A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon'' Evening Standard''Vintage le Carré. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect'' John Banville, GuardianPeter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good.Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carré has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.''Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced'' Daily Mail''Splendid, fast-paced, riveting'' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times''Remarkable. Vintage John le Carré. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carré''s writing has got richer with age. Don''t wait for the paperback'' The Times''Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He''s in the first rank'' Ian McEwan''The literary event of the Autumn'' Evening Standard''One of those writers who will be read a century from now'' Robert Harris

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*''As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen'' Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life.In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he''s interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, this book invites us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood.Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer''s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.''No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times'' Guardian''When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré . . . These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind'' Aung San Suu Kyi

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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigre, shows up at his door with a very keen interest in Julian's new enterprise and a lot of knowledge about his family history. And when a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carre asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.

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Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carré. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life.And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found.Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy…

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John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the penname._____''The symbiosis of author and editor, father and son, has resulted in a brilliant book, le Carré''s final masterpiece'' 5*, Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph_____A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carré''s own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the ''chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords'' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live. We find le Carré writing to Sir Alec Guinness to persuade him to take on the role of George Smiley, and later arguing the immorality of the War on Terror with the chief of the German internal security service. What emerges is a portrait not only of the writer, or of the global intellectual, but, in his own words, of the very private, very passionate and very real man behind the name._____Includes letters to:John BanvilleWilliam BurroughsJohn CheeverStephen FryGraham GreeneSir Alec GuinnessHugh LaurieBen MacintyreIan McEwanGary OldmanPhilip RothPhilippe SandsSir Tom StoppardMargaret ThatcherAnd more...

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In John le Carré''s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world.Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain''s Intelligence Establishment.''If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré''s latest thriller'' Evening Standard''Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance'' Sunday Times

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Ani ne tak memoár jako spíše vzpomínání starého přítele, s kterým sedíte nad sklenkou sherry u krbu, a on vám vypráví příběhy ze svého předlouhého života. Pětaosmdesátiletý autor, vlastním jménem David Cornwell, tu v třiceti osmi kapitolách mluví o své práci pro MI6, o svém otci, který byl špatným tátou, velkým šarmérem a také často vězněným podvodníkem, o svých knihách a jednotlivých událostech, jež je ovlivnily, stejně jako o jednotlivcích, které potkal a jimiž se pak nechal inspirovat pro své literární hrdiny. Po dočtení knihy máme pocit, že jsme pochopili, jak se Cornwell - Le Carré stal jedním z nejuznávanějších a nejplodnějších autorů špionážních románů s naprosto pravděpodobnými zápletkami a motivacemi postav. "… zářivá pokladnice skvělých příběhů ze života." - The Seattle Times

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The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré''s masterful creation George Smiley. After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man''s death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan''s widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man''s death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carré''s first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.If you enjoyed Call for the Dead, you might like le Carré''s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard'' Sunday Telegraph''Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense'' Observer

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A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus - even though it may be one of those closest to him. The first part of le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart.

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John le Carré''s first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command themBarley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries ...If you enjoyed The Russia House, you might like le Carré''s The Secret Pilgrim, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''Classic le Carré'' Sunday Times

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''With A Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it''s a splendid homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and compelling of his recent oeuvre'' The TimesA counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain''s most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister''s Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn''s daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?__________________''No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times, from the Second World War to the ''War on Terror'''' Guardian''The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . John le Carré was never a spy-turned-writer, he was a writer who found his canvas in espionage'' Daily Mail ''A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises'' Observer

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A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction, John le Carré''s The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses, audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, published in Penguin Modern Classics.When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place. The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the action.Swiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride, the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany, Leiser''s fate becomes inseparable from the Department''s.If you enjoyed The Looking Glass War, you might like le Carré''s The Secret Pilgrim, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies'' New York Herald Tribune''A book of rare and great power'' Financial Times

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John le Carré''s second novel is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley. Now available in a collector''s hardback edition.Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carne''s respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL''Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty'' Daily Telegraph

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From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War, published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first timeAlec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters. He has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. In le Carré's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. 'A portrait of a man who has lived by lies and subterfuge for so long, he's forgotten how to tell the truth'TIME'He can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction. Above all, he can tell a tale'Sunday Times

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In the second part of John le Carré''s Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension.George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation uncovering a Russian money-laundering scheme in the Far East. His aim: revenge on Karla, head of Moscow Centre and the architect of all his troubles. ''Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action'' The Times''A remarkable sequel ... the achievement is in the characters, major and minor ... all burned on the brain of the reader'' The New York TimesTHE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

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The concluding part of John le Carré''s celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley''s People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end.A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clear up - and cover up - the mess. But what he discovers sends him delving into the past, on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin - and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis, Karla. ''An enormously skilled and satisfying work'' Newsweek''We are all Smiley''s people, a kind of secular god of intelligence'' New YorkerTHE SEVENTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

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THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVELGeorge Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation uncovering a Russian money-laundering scheme in the Far East. His aim: revenge on Karla, head of Moscow Centre and the architect of all his troubles. In the second part of John le Carré''s Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between Smiley and his Soviet adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. ''Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action'' The Times''A remarkable sequel ... the achievement is in the characters, major and minor ... all burned on the brain of the reader'' The New York Times

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A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr''s A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.''That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.''One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .

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''Splendid ... le Carré shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling'' The TimesAldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meets Shamus and Helen - a dazzling, bohemian couple who are everything he is not. As he is drawn into their reckless and unpredictable orbit, all that Cassidy thought he understood about his orderly life begins to unravel.Told with le Carré''s lacerating wit and penetrating observation, The Naive and Sentimental Lover is an acerbic satire of middle-class hypocrisies.''Le Carré is the equal of any novelist now writing'' Guardian

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''A stunning story'' Wall Street JournalA mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus - even though it may be one of those closest to him.The first part of le Carré''s acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart.''A great thriller, the best le Carré has written'' SpectatorTHE FIFTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

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''The best English novel since the war'' Philip RothMagnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own. Described by le Carré as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is. ''Le Carré understood that espionage is an extreme version of the human comedy, even the human tragedy. A Perfect Spy will very likely remain his greatest book'' New Yorker

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Le Carré''s post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and dramaThe Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry ­- dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim''s mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for.Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carré''s brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control.

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Audiokniha: Kdo chce přežít studenou válku, musí být tvrdší než železná opona… Podzim 1961. Protože útěk z čerstvě zazděného východního Berlína skončil katastrofou a tamní rozvědka síť jeho kontaktů postřílela, je agent britské MI6 Alec Leamas nadřízenými poslán k ledu. Přesněji odložen do knihovny. Stane se z něj ztroskotanec s opileckými sklony, který dluží, kam se podívá, a přesto s ním stále cloumá vztek i chuť se úhlavnímu východoněmeckému soupeři Mundtovi pomstít. Jenže to by znamenalo vydat se opět do jámy lvové v roli přeběhlíka a zosnovat v NDR složitou zpravodajskou hru, jež by Mundta v očích jeho tajné služby zkompromitovala coby dvojitého agenta. Kolik vrstev lží a přetvářky bude zapotřebí, aby vyhořelý pěšák studené války v misi uspěl? A neuškodí si za Zdí věčným britským lpěním na morálce? Podle knihy, kterou magazín Time zařadil mezi 100 nejvýznamnějších světových románů, natočil režisér Martin Ritt slavný špionážní thriller ve stylu noir (1965). Hlavní role se ujal Richard Burton, nominovaný za svůj výkon na Oscara. Postavu východoněmeckého vyšetřovatele Kardena ve filmu ztvárnil exulant Jiří Voskovec.

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''Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece'' New StatesmanWest Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting''s disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined. Le Carré''s searing Cold War novel creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred.''Exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted'' The New York TimesWith an Introduction by Hari Kunzru

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''An adventure that takes us to the ends of the earth via the rich but often barren landscape of the human heart'' The TimesWhy was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm''s top client? How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast fortune that has mysteriously appeared in his daughter''s trust fund? With customs officer Nat Brock on the trail, the answers point to the House of Single - once a respectable finance company, now entangled with a Russian crime syndicate.West is pitted against East, and the British establishment against a labyrinthine criminal superpower, in le Carré''s searing novel of lives built upon lies.''A masterly work, faultless fiction of the highest order'' Glasgow Herald

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Román, který autora proslavil coby revolucionáře špionážního žánru. Není tu nezničitelný James Bond ani megalomanský padouch jako jeho protivníci, ale je tu jedna bezpečnostní služba stojící proti druhé a někdy i proti třetí. Takhle to ve světě špionáže za studené války opravdu fungovalo, přestože, jak autor tvrdí v brilantním doslovu, je to dílo čisté fikce.Alec Leamas má za úkol dostat z Východního Berlína všechny britské agenty poté, co město rozdělila zeď. Jednoho mu však Němci zastřelí. Po návratu do Londýna přistoupí na riskantní plán obvinit agenta Mundta z toho, že je dvojitý špion -- sám Leamas má totiž tuto roli hrát a získat si důvěru německé tajné služby. Krůček po krůčku se celá hra blíží k překvapivému konci…

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Po románu Jeden musí z kola ven je Ctihodný školáček druhým počinem autorovy volné trilogie spojené tajemným sovětským superšpionem "Karlou"... Je rok 1974 a George Smiley se snaží postavit britskou tajnou službu přezdívanou Cirkus znovu na nohy, poté co její pověst a síť kontaktů zničil dvojitý agent Bill Haydon. Úzký tým jeho spolupracovníků přijde na to, že v Hongkongu operuje vážený obchodník Drake Kao ve prospěch Karly a tím britské kolonii škodí; ale agenti objeví i to, že Drake má v rudé Číně bratra Nelsona, vysoce postaveného státního úředníka, a že se bratři mají v Hongkongu tajně setkat. O únos a vytěžení Nelsona usiluje i CIA, sice spolupracovník Britů, ale jen občasný a málo spolehlivý. Aby operace únosu proběhla úspěšně, Smiley najme spícího agenta Jerryho Westerbyho, jemuž se sice přezdívá "ctihodný školáček", protože jako šlechtic vychodil ty nejlepší školy, ale jeho otec zbankrotoval. Jerry se tedy živí jako člověk na špinavou práci v nebezpečných situacích.

Objev podobné jako Ctihodný školáček - John le Carré

Shortlisted for the Author''s Club First Novel Award''Remarkable and redemptive . . . like the best of John le Carre'' A. L. KennedyKenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda but the servants can''t be trusted. Beyond manicured lawns, in the dark of the forest, freedom is stirring. Johnny Seymour has seen too much war and seeks solace photographing East African wildlife. But when isolated white families are slaughtered by Mau Mau gangs, the British respond brutally and Johnny is reluctantly pulled into the horror. After his African driver Macharia disappears, Johnny is forced to confront shocking truths about his own country and ask how far he''ll go to help a friend. Nearly sixty years later, disgraced young barrister Sam Seymour knows nothing about her grandfather. Even his name is taboo. All she understands is that Johnny did something so awful that his only son - her father - had to be rescued from Kenya. With veteran Mau Mau fighters demanding reparations for past sins, she''s been offered a chance to unpeel history and discover why. In a narrative spanning the generations, White Highlands follows Sam and Johnny as they confront the might of the British state. One man stands in both their way - Grogan Littleboy, a ruthless colonial survivor who''ll do anything to defeat Mau Mau, past and present. A startlingly original novel set in both the present day and Kenya in the 1950s during the Mau Mau uprising - one of the least known and darkest episodes in British colonial history.

Objev podobné jako White Highlands - John McGhie

Těhotenství, porod a první tři roky života dítěte V dnešní době prožívají nastávající otcové těhotenství své partnerky více než před lety a přítomnost otce u porodu se stala téměř samozřejmostí. Kniha přináší odpovědi na otázky, které v souvislosti s těhotenstvím, porodem a péčí o malé dítě muže napadají. Nabízí praktické rady typu, jak vyměnit plenku nebo čím nakrmit malé dítě, ale i zamyšlení nad emoční stránkou procesu vrůstání do otcovské role. Zabývá se i upevňováním vztahu s partnerkou, skloubením práce a rodiny, výchovnými styly, prosazováním disciplíny nebo úlohou hry v jednotlivých stadiích dítěte. John C. Carr je sociální pracovník a psychoterapeut s dvacetiletou praxí. Žije a pracuje v New Yorku. Je ženatý a má tři děti.

Objev podobné jako Knížka pro tatínky - John C. Carr

Regarded as one of the great Carr/Dickson locked-room mysteries among Carr connoisseurs, one of the highest-rated authors of the genre. The Ten Teacups features one of his famous series detectives Henry Merrivale (previously appearing in The White Priory Murders & returning in The Judas Window in Autumn 2025). Set in Henry Merrivale's stomping gro

Objev podobné jako The Ten Teacups - John Dickson Carr, Carter Dickson

First published in 1946, in later years Carr considered this novel one of his finest works. It shows the masterful author at the height of his powers, boasting an ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and striking characters including none other than the great detective, Dr Gideon Fell.

Objev podobné jako He Who Whispers - John Dickson Carr

Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr’s masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.

Objev podobné jako The Black Spectacles - John Dickson Carr

For one reason or another, mainstream education does not suit every young person. Many young people are educated in alternative provision, which is defined by the Department for Education as educational provision ''for pupils who, because of exclusion, illness or other reasons, would not otherwise receive suitable education''. As of 2023, over 25,000 young people are enrolled in alternative provision, and those numbers continue to rise.It is essential, then, that the curriculum on offer in alternative provision is exemplary, as these young people - already facing extraordinary challenges - need the very best if they are going to progress successfully into adulthood.Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration. He is the deity Mary Myatt and John Tomsett have adopted as their god of the curriculum. Their Huh series of books focuses on how practitioners design the curriculum for the young people in their schools.The Huh project is founded on conversations with colleagues doing great work across the education sector. In AP Huh, Mary Myatt and John Tomsett discuss curriculum provision for pupils attending alternative provision with some of the leading experts in the field. Mary and John interviewed pupils, parents, teachers, headteachers, CEOs, educational consultants and lecturers. They then edited the transcriptions of those interviews to provide an ambitious, thoughtful, nuanced and challenging vision of what the best possible provision looks like for children who find that mainstream schooling is not for them.The challenging conversations that comprise AP Huh paint a positive picture that is hugely hopeful for the future of the curriculum in our alternative provision settings.

Objev podobné jako Alternative Provision Huh - John Tomsett, Mary Myatt

Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration. He is the deity Mary Myatt and John Tomsett have adopted as their god of the curriculum. Their Huh series of books focuses on how practitioners design the curriculum for the young people in their schools.The Huh project is founded on conversations with colleagues doing great work across the education sector. In SEND Huh, Mary Myatt and John Tomsett discuss curriculum provision for pupils with additional needs with some of the leading experts in the field.Mary and John interviewed pupils, parents, teachers, headteachers, CEOs, educational consultants and lecturers. They then edited the transcriptions of those interviews to provide an ambitious, thoughtful, nuanced and challenging vision of what the best possible provision looks like for children with additional learning needs.The challenging conversations that comprise SEND Huh paint an inspiring picture that is hugely hopeful for the future of SEND curriculum provision in our schools.

Objev podobné jako SEND Huh: curriculum conversations with SEND leaders - John Tomsett, Mary Myatt

Hračka pro psy - pro plemena všech velikostí, vydává zvuky a plovoucí, materiál TPR, modrá barva, rozměr 14,2 × 4,2 × 4,2 cm (v × š × h) Chtěli byste svému psovi dopřát hračku, která ho zabaví na několik hodin? Hračka pro psy Gigwi je nejlepší volbou pro malé i velké psy. Hračka je ideální pro aport a mazlíček se díky tomu protáhne u lovení kořisti. Když hračku hodíte do vody, zůstane na hladině, takže si pejsek může zaplavat. Základní přednosti hračky pro psy GiGwi Johnny stick aport modro-purpurový malý GiGwi Johnny stick aport modro-purpurový malý je vhodná pro pejsky všech velikostí Po vhození do vody zůstane na hladině Materiál využitý na hračku Gigwi: TPR

Objev podobné jako GiGwi Johnny stick aport modro-purpurový malý (846295061902)

Elektronická kniha - Krásná Holanďanka, pohledný Palestinec, mladá anglická herečka. Co mají společného s teroristickým útokem na izraelského úředníka v Německu? Děsivé důsledky. - autor John le Carré, 576 stran, česky New York Times bestseller, předloha stejnojmenného filmu a seriálu NetflixKrásná Holanďanka, pohledný Palestinec, mladá anglická herečka. Co mají společného s teroristickým útokem na izraelského úředníka v Německu? Děsivé důsledky.Charlie je najata izraelskou tajnou službou, aby se vydávala za propalestinskou aktivistku a milenku bratra nebezpečného teroristy. Počíná si ve své roli tak dobře, že nakonec už neví, komu být loajální a koho zradit. Čím víc se ponořuje do své role, tím víc jí hrozí, že z ní zcela vypadne.Přestože román vznikl v roce 1983, jeho výpověď je stále platná a veskrze současná. Autor se soustředí především na izraelskou výzvědnou službu a její metody, ale ty jsou kolikrát tak špinavé, že ho nelze podezřívat z toho, že by...

Objev podobné jako Malá bubenice (9788025731901)

Kniha - autor John Le Carré, 576 stran, česky Krásná Holanďanka, pohledný Palestinec, mladá anglická herečka. Co mají společného s teroristickým útokem na izraelského úředníka v Německu? Děsivé důsledky. Charlie je najata izraelskou tajnou službou, aby se vydávala za propalestinskou aktivistku a milenku bratra nebezpečného teroristy. Počíná si ve své roli tak dobře, že nakonec už neví, komu být loajální a koho zradit. Čím víc se ponořuje do své role, tím víc jí hrozí, že z ní zcela vypadne. Přestože román vznikl v roce 1983, jeho výpověď je stále platná a veskrze současná. Autor se soustředí především na izraelskou výzvědnou službu a její metody, ale ty jsou kolikrát tak špinavé, že ho nelze podezřívat z toho, že by stranil některému z opozičních táborů tohoto blízkovýchodního konfliktu. V roce 1984 vznikl podle knihy film s Diane Keatonovou v hlavní roli. V roce 2018 odvysílala televize BBC stejnojmenný seriál, který režíroval Park Chan-wook. John Le Carré...

Objev podobné jako Malá bubenice (978-80-257-3024-9)

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***''Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment'' IRISH INDEPENDENT''These three novellas in a single volume show Grisham at his masterful best, exquisite evocations of the law though far from complimentary about lawyers . . . A minor masterpiece'' DAILY MAILThree thrilling stories of the law from the master of the legal thriller.Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham''s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he''s not in the courtroom. He''s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole some money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. Until now. Now Mack is back and he''s leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned.In Strawberry Moon, we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can''t save him, the courts slam the door, and the Governor says no to a last minute request for clemency. As the clock ticks down, Cody has only one final request.The Sparring Partners are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe one another, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time and try to save herself? 350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films:NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM

Objev podobné jako Sparring Partners - John Grisham

From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Magpie Murders, and related diversions including cryptic crosswords and Cain’s Jawbone, The Murder Game examines the games authors played with their readers and the importance of puzzles in Golden Age whodunits.With books flourishing in the 1920s and ’30s like never before, no genre was more innovative or popular than detective fiction. It was an era that saw the emergence of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen and dozens of other authors who became household names for a generation of readers.The Golden Age of Detection has enjoyed a great resurgence of interest in recent years, with publishers mining back catalogues to bring the best of yesteryear to very receptive new audiences. What is it about a literary movement that took off in the 1920s that still appeals to book lovers in the 2020s?In this authoritative new study, John Curran reveals that it is the ludic qualities of classic crime fiction that continue to intrigue. At its heart is the ‘whodunit’ game between writer and reader, but there is also the game between detective and murderer, between publisher and book-buyer, even between the writers themselves.Coinciding with an increase in leisure time and literacy, the Golden Age also saw the development of the crossword, the growth of bridge and Mahjong, the enduring popularity of jigsaws and the emergence of Cluedo – all activities requiring the ‘little grey cells’. The Murder Game considers all of these, and many other sporting and competitive recreations, helping to explain the reading public’s ongoing love affair with the Golden Age.

Objev podobné jako The Murder Game - John Curran

Bývalí členové legendárních Doors se na stará kolena rozhádali. A to tak, že roztržku mezi nimi musel řešit soud. Samozřejmě, že šlo o peníze, ale nejen o ně, významnou roli v jejich sporu hrály zejména práva na používání jména původního jména kapely… Bubeník John Densmore ve své knize líčí svůj vyčerpávající právní boj se svými někdejšími spoluhráči, Robbym Kriegerem a Rayem Manzarekem. Nakonec uspěl, takže "chamtivý gen," o němž tak často hovoří a který podle něj většinu z nás pohání ke stále většímu a většímu hromadění majetku, (aspoň v tomto případě) nezvítězil.

Objev podobné jako Doors: Brány vyhozené z pantů - John Densmore

The second epic fantasy in The Faithful and the Fallen series, Valour by John Gwynne carries all of the excitement of the first.The Banished Lands are torn by war as the army of High King Nathair sweeps the realm challenging all who oppose his holy crusade. Allied with the manipulative Queen Rhin of Cambren, there are few who can stand against him. But Rhin is playing her own games and has her eyes on a far greater prize . . .Left for dead - her kin have fled and her country is overrun with enemies - Cywen fights to survive. But any chance of escape is futile once Nathair and his disquieting advisor Calidus realize who she is. They have no intention of letting such a prize slip from their grasp. For she may be their one chance at killing the biggest threat to their power.Meanwhile, the young warrior Corban flees from his conquered homeland with his exiled companions, heading for the only place that may offer them sanctuary. But to get there they must travel through Cambren, avoiding warbands, giants and the vicious wolven of the mountains. And all the while Corban struggles to become the man that everyone believes him to be - the Bright Star and saviour of the Banished Lands.Embroiled in struggles for power and survival, the mortal world is unaware of the greatest threat of all. In the Otherworld, dark forces scheme to bring a host of the Fallen into the world of flesh to end the war with the Faithful, once and for all.Continue the fantasy series with Ruin and Wrath, start the series with Malice.

Objev podobné jako Valour - John Gwynne

Gelové pero - gelový inkoust, počet kusu v balení 12ks, plast materiál, šířka stopy 0.7 mm, s uzávěrem Milovníci lega, pozor! LEGO stavebnici doma již určitě máte, ale co LEGO gelová pera? V této sadě najdete celkem 12 ks gelových per různých barev, které využijete jak ve škole, tak ve volném čase třeba na kreslení. Součástí každého pera jsou 2 proužky LEGO destičky, které můžete spojit třeba s LEGO pouzdrem, LEGO zápisníkem, minifigurkou, jiným perem nebo třeba k nacvaknutí na LEGO pravítko. Tak co si rozšířit svou LEGO sbírku? Tyhle gelové pera vám bude každý závidět! nbsp; nbsp; Klíčové vlastnosti LEGO gelových per nbsp;sada 12 ks gelových per LEGOpera mají různé barvykaždé pero má 2 proužky LEGO destičkylze spojit s LEGO pouzdrem, zápisníkem aj. nbsp;originální design nbsp;

Objev podobné jako LEGO Gelová Pera (4895028516390)

Dárkový set Bohemia Sekt ICE na ledu obsahuje sekty, stylové sklenice a originální tvořku na led. Je ideální pro letní osvěžení a poskytne luxusní zážitek.

• Exkluzivní dárkový set pro letní osvěžení
• Svěží a osvěžující sekty Bohemia Sekt ICE
• Originální stylové sklenice pro luxusní zážitek
• Magický pytlík s mátovými semínky

Objev podobné jako Bohemia Sekt ICE na ledu

LEGO Minifigures Červený drak – svítící přívěsek na klíčeRoztomilý a praktický LEGO přívěsek v podobě Červeného draka dodá vašim klíčům kouzlo a zároveň se postará o světlo, když ho potřebujete. Svítící minifigurka je ideální společník nejen pro děti, ale i pro dospělé fanoušky LEGO, kteří ocení kombinaci zábavy a funkčnosti. Autentický LEGO design – detailní provedení ikonické minifigurky potěší každého LEGO nadšence. Praktické LED světlo – jednoduchým stiskem tlačítka na hrudi postavičky rozsvítíte jasné bílé světlo. Kompaktní a lehký – ideální velikost (cca 8 cm) pro připevnění na klíče, batoh nebo tašku. Dlouhá výdrž – LED dioda je úsporná a napájená dvěma vyměnitelnými bateriemi (součást balení). Věk 6+ – vhodné pro malé i velké stavitele. Proč si ho zamilujete Skvělý doplněk pro každodenní nošení – stylový i užitečný. Pomůže najít klíčovou dírku nebo drobnosti v tašce. Oživí klíče dětí i dospělých a vyčaruje úsměv na tváři. Obsah balení 1× LEGO minifigurka Červeného draka s LED světlem 2× baterie CR2025 (součástí balení) Perfektní dárek pro všechny věkové kategorie, ideální jako malá pozornost pro LEGO fanoušky i jako veselý doplněk do každodenního života.

Objev podobné jako LEGO Minifigures Červený drak svítící figurka (HT)

Includes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu, plus 30+ other delights from a lifetime of reflection on the mystery and magic of cats ''The presence of a cat keeps me in touch with the mystery, the unreasonableness, the beauty, the stubborn wildness of the nonhuman world.'' In her life as in her art, Ursula K. Le Guin was fascinated by the feline. This irresistable book about cats gathers poems, mediations, and drawings dedicated to the complicated creature that her captured her imagination. Here are: The Art of Bunditsu, Le Guin''s hard-to-find ''tabbist'' meditation on the arranging of cats 26 cat poems, many illustrated by Le Guin herself The Historic First Issue! of Le Guin''s one-of-a-kind cat comic book, Supermouse Comix! Cat Correspondence: letters between Le Guin''s cat and those of her daughter detailing the Five Deliberations that cats spend their lives studying Cat Tai Chi, as depicted in a charming series of drawings A first-of-its-kind collection from a science fiction legend, this delightful purr-purri is a gift for cat lovers and Le Guin fans!

Objev podobné jako Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats - Ursula K. Le Guinová

LEGO keramický hrnek 300 ml – Christmas MugProdlužte si kouzlo Vánoc s LEGO Christmas Mug – keramickým hrnkem, který spojuje hravost LEGO světa s hřejivou sváteční atmosférou. Každý doušek z něj chutná slavnostněji a přináší radost i v obyčejném dni. Objem 300 ml – ideální na horkou čokoládu, čaj nebo voňavou kávu Vánoční LEGO design – spojení oblíbených kostek a sváteční nálady Keramika – příjemný a odolný materiál pro každodenní použití Proč si ho zamilujete Navodí pohodu a úsměv kdykoli během roku Skvělý dárek pro LEGO fanoušky všech věkových kategorií Stylový doplněk pro zimní dny i vánočně laděné večery Obsah balení 1× LEGO keramický hrnek – Christmas Mug (300 ml) Hrníček potěší každého, kdo má rád Vánoce, LEGO a chvilky klidu s oblíbeným nápojem. Ideální doplněk pro sváteční sezónu i útulné zimní večery.

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