Le Carre, whose real name was David Cornwell, wrote best-selling novels including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Night Manager.

Author Nick Harkaway — a pen name of Nicholas Cornwell — visits Hampstead Heath in London. His father, the spy novelist John le Carré, would often take walks there. (Elena Heatherwick) ...

8. Smiley's People by John Le Carré (1979) Yes, there must be at least one Le Carré title on any list of this kind. No, it's not The Spy Who Came in from the Cold or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was based on the 1970s novel of the same name and directed by Tomas Alfredson. The 2011 film is also set around the 1970s, and saw Gary Oldman playing veteran MI6 agent ...

What the critics thought: " Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy looks, sounds and feels exactly right." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "It's a treat to be back in Le Carré's world, where amid the tangle of ...

Gary Oldman stars as an MI5 has-been in a darkly comic thriller about the spies no one wants to talk about. By Mike Hale When he wrote “Slow Horses,” the first of his Slough House series of ...

He’d been nominated for an Oscar for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and a stream of texts was congratulating him. For Straughan, however, the news was difficult to digest.

Had he retired 40 years ago, after his Karla trilogy (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” “The Honourable Schoolboy” and “Smiley’s People”) was completed in 1979, he would have been ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy writer Peter Straughan and director Tomas Alfredson will turn the best-selling novels into an eight-part series, titled Europa, which will be co-produced by Seven Stories ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy writer Peter Straughan and director Tomas Alfredson will turn the best-selling novels into an eight-part series, titled Europa, which will be co-produced by Seven Stories ...

British author John le Carré, writer of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Night Manager, has died aged 89, his literary agent has said. The literary great, whose real name was David Cornwell ...