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INTERVIEWER: Can you say something about your early reading? JOHN LE CARRÉ: I grew up in a completely bookless household. #WorldBookDay #SchoolTeachers #JohnleCarre From The Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 149, 1997
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"The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: it's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on." — John le Carré in conversation with George Plimpton for The Paris Review in 1996.
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"It was here, under Tessa’s doting eye, that he had planted wedding lupins, wedding roses and, inevitably, wedding freesias for love of her. The weeds came up to his knees, drenching his trousers. A single rose was in bloom." – The Constant Gardener
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“One day somebody will explain to me why it is that, at a time when science has never been wiser, or the truth more stark, or human knowledge more available, populists and liars are in such pressing demand.” Read the full speech here. theguardian.com/books/2020/f…
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We’re delighted to reveal the paperback cover for John le Carré’s novel, Agent Running in the Field, publishing this May. Pre-order your copy from @Waterstones bit.ly/ARITFW
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Live from Stockholm: watch the live stream of John le Carré's acceptance speech at the 2020 Olof Palme Prize Ceremony: yqpvvk.cloud.influxis.com:88…
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All hail the Queen! Olivia Colman's #EEBAFTAs acceptance speech is all you'll need to make your Saturday 👑🥰
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.@Florence_Pugh is our February cover star! Read the full profile here: vogue.cm/XitEmJs
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What are you reflecting on as the New Year approaches? “It had turned much colder, a wind was getting up and there was a promise to people’s faces as they bustled by. He felt elated. Till now he had been living too much in the past, he decided.”– p108 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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Los Angeles Review of Books@LAReviewofBooks18 Dec 2019
"In a time where there is so much talk of building walls and vitriolic rhetoric that emphasizes all that makes us different, it is almost a revolutionary act to imagine all that makes us similar." A conversation with @laraprescott by @rbarenbaum ow.ly/6V7x50xDAUF
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Can Florence Pugh land her first Oscar nom for #LittleWomen? Her work is being hailed as "astonishing" and the MVP of the film in first reactions: bit.ly/2JjOCwk
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“Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.” ― John le Carré (born this day October 19, 1931), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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We’ve come a long way since our very first rehearsals. Tonight, we open on Broadway. Thank you to everyone who has joined us on this journey. We are so grateful to be here. #BetrayalBroadway 📸 Marc Brenner
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Thrilled to share a first look clip of Rocks, ahead of its world premiere at #TIFF19, a story by Theresa Ikoko (@TheresaIkoko), co-written with Claire Wilson, and directed by Sarah Gavron (@SarahGavron)
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