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Mary Robinette Kowal returns to Mars in this latest entry to the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Lady Astronaut series.
"Kowal masters both science and historical accuracy in this alternate history adventure."—Andy Weir, author of The Martian, on The Calculating Stars
Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.—triggering an extinction-level global warming event—Earth's survivors have started an international effort to establish homes on space stations and the Moon.
The next step – Mars.
Elma York, the Lady Astronaut, lands on the Red Planet, optimistic about preparing for the first true wave of inhabitants. The mission objective is more than just building the infrastructure of a habitat – they are trying to preserve the many cultures and nuances of life on Earth without importing the hate.
But from the moment she arrives, something is off.
Disturbing signs hint at a hidden disaster during...
Nobodaddy's Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war by researching the exploits of a deserter from the Napoleonic Wars nicknamed The Faun. Brand's Heath deals with the chaos of the immediate postwar period as a writer joins a small community of “survivors” to try to forge a new life, and Dark Mirrors is set in a future where civilization has been virtually destroyed. Dark Mirrors' narrator fears he may be the last man on earth until the discovery of another creates new fears. All three novels are characterized by Schmidt's unique combination of sharply observed details, sarcastic asides, and wide erudition.
In this satirical science fiction classic, a new technology promises to help British subjects find love—and threatens to destroy the empire.
In the years following World War II, a new day has risen in Great Britain. A mechanical marvel has arrived to free society from the shackles of prudish Victorian morality and neo-Freudianism. The Emotion Register, a coin-shaped device, attaches to the forehead and emits a soft pink glow when the wearer experiences sexual attraction. Now the British can no longer deny that sex exists—and the government is insisting everyone undergo the procedure to get the device.
Much of the population, including young Jimmy Solent, embraces the Emotion Registers. The gadget gives them a new lease on life. Meanwhile others refuse, seeing the marvel as an invasion of privacy. And so, another conflict begins on British soil. Fortunately, the stakes are far lower and much more hilarious . . .
A satire on...
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Em Os Radley, Matt Haig, autor best-seller de A biblioteca da meia-noite, explora as facetas do amor fraterno e da ambição em um thriller vampiresco espirituoso e tocante.
Peter, Helen e seus filhos adolescentes, Clara e Rowan, moram num bairro tranquilo e pacato, levando uma vida bem monótona. De longe, são uma família como outra qualquer. Mas a verdade é que Peter e Helen escondem um terrível segredo, capaz de virar o mundo dos filhos de cabeça para baixo.
Certa noite, Clara se vê compelida a cometer um ato de violência inimaginável — e estranhamente prazeroso —, e é nesse momento que ela e o irmão enfim compreendem por que não conseguem dormir e por que precisam passar protetor solar fator 50 antes de sair de casa. Enquanto tentam lidar com as dificuldades inerentes à sua condição, os Radley se veem ameaçados por uma investigação policial que pode acabar com tudo o que construíram.
Para piorar, quando o irmão desonesto e sedutor de Peter, Will, chega para tirar a polícia da cola de Clara, a situação sai do controle, e a família se vê na corda bamba entre a decisão de manter a linha e a ânsia por se entregar à sua verdadeira natureza.
Os Radley é uma história eletrizante que mistura suspense e ironia, explorando a batalha entre desejo e autocontrole e os limites que alguém seria capaz de transpor para proteger os filhos. Uma reflexão sobre as vontades que reprimimos, os segredos que guardamos e os laços que nos unem apesar de tudo.
“Divertido, assustador e terrivelmente familiar.” — Alfonso Cuarón
“Deliciosamente excêntrico.” — Financial Times
“Uma ficção visceral, no sentido mais sedutor da palavra.” — Sunday Telegraph
Matt Haig (Sheffield, 3 de julho de 1975) é um romancista e jornalista inglês. Ele escreveu livros de ficção e não-ficção para crianças e adultos, muitas vezes no gênero de ficção especulativa. É um autor best-seller internacional com livros publicados em mais de 30 idiomas.
A taut, suspenseful historical thriller set in the months of WWII: Did Japan also have an atomic weapon, and did America bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to pre-empt an attack on its fleet?
A masterful historical thriller set during the waning months of World War II, The Second Sun poses a provocative question: Did Japan test an atomic weapon, and did America know about it in advance of its own decision to drop two nuclear bombs?
March 1945: After a career of commanding destroyers in the Pacific theater of WWII, Captain Wolfe Bowen is based in Washington, DC, working for the Chief of Naval Operations. Bowen receives an urgent call from the commander of the naval shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A German U-boat has been captured and brought to port. But what grabs Bowen's attention is the presence of two Japanese civilians on board, along with the massive size of the U-boat itself. What these civilians know about the cargo of the U-boat, as well as its...
A fresh, lyrical new translation of Persia's founding epic.
Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi (940–1020 CE), one of Iran's greatest poets, versified the ancient legends of the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh) in verse over one thousand years ago. It is the longest poem written by a single poet. A combination of myth and history told over a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi dedicated thirty-three years of his life to writing the Shahnameh and intended it to protect the Persian collective memory and its language amid a turbulent sea of cultural storms. This celebrated work traces the storied history of the Iranian people, beginning with the origin myths of civilization and ending with the Arab Conquest of Iran in the seventh century. Featuring a preface by editor and Guggenheim fellow Hamid Rahmanian and an introduction by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, chair of ancient history at Cardiff University, this lush translation by Ahmad Sadri...
In this searing novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control—and what it takes, ultimately, to find one's place in the world.
ONE OF THE SEASON'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS: Time, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Men's Health, WNYC, Electric Lit, Feminist Book Club, Lit Hub
“O Sinners! invites us to be fully and vigorously present for the rhapsodic truths of our lives.”—Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning
Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist processing the recent death of his father, a devout Muslim, takes the opportunity to embed himself in a cult known only as “the nameless,” because its members refused to label themselves. Based in the California redwoods and shepherded by an enigmatic Vietnam War...
From the universally acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day comes a mesmerizing novel of completely unexpected mood and matter–a seamless, fictional universe, both wholly unrecognizable and familiar. When the public, day-to-day reality of a renowned pianist takes on a life of its own, he finds himself traversing landscapes that are by turns eerie, comical, and strangely malleable.
From the Hardcover edition.
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY PEOPLE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE MILLIONS, AND NBC TODAYFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.
“Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny.” - Vogue
“As much heart, humor, and gritty realness as can fit between two covers.” - People“A funny and heartfelt tale of one woman grappling with grief, love and how to move forward.” - New York Times
Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she's always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of...
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Vencedor do Pulitzer e do National Book Award, As vinhas da ira, livro que marcou o auge da carreira do Nobel de Literatura, John Steinbeck, tornando-se um manifesto perene da luta dos excluídos, ganha edição revisada, com novo projeto gráfico.
Publicado em 1939, As vinhas da ira marcou o auge da carreira de John Steinbeck, vencedor do Nobel de Literatura, e se mantém como um documento social e um marco da literatura. Assim como o livro, o filme, que rendeu um Oscar ao diretor John Ford e foi protagonizado por Henry Fonda, tornou-se um clássico.
Dez anos depois da Grande Depressão de 1929, Steinbeck criou um manifesto perene com foco na luta dos excluídos. As vinhas da ira representa o confronto entre indivíduo e sociedade, através da epopeia da família Joad, expulsa pela seca dos campos de algodão de Oklahoma, para tentar sobreviver como boias-frias nas plantações de frutas do Vale de Salinas, na Califórnia.
Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1962, Steinbeck retratou a situação do homem moderno diante das dificuldades, a pobreza e a privação em um universo feroz, protagonizado por vítimas da competição e párias sociais. Ao testemunhar as debilidades humanas diante de um sistema econômico implacável, nos deparamos com situações repletas de dramaticidade. O realismo do texto, com fortes tons naturalistas, expõe o escritor como experimentador de inovadoras técnicas narrativas, ricas em simbolismo e elaboração mítica.
Tão americano quanto universal, Steinbeck exibe na vida e na arte irredutíveis paradoxos, provocados pela tensão entre instinto e mente, natureza e história, a civilização e seus descontentes. As vinhas da ira é a prova de que homens em lugares e situações comuns podem ser trocados pela intenção épica e conduzidos à imortalidade.
An exquisite, blistering debut novel Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he's Puerto Rican, she's white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. Written in magical language with unforgettable images, this is a stunning exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up, how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds, and how we...
An epic novel of postwar Japan—a powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-telling—by the author of Territory of Light. Mitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo—but ever since the sudden death of Mitch's brother, they've been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster.
Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that they've kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it's all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.
Yuko Tsushima's sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in...
“Consider blocking out a few hours of uninterrupted reading time” for The Writer, #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson's “Excellent...perfectly executed...genuinely suspenseful” (Booklist) thriller about a true-crime author swept up in a murder plot.
“Entertaining...one gonzo plot twist follows the next...loads of fun.” (Publishers Weekly)
NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She's covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room.
Every book in the apartment's floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise...
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A casa de bonecas e outras histórias, originalmente The dove's nest, é uma coletânea de contos finalizados e inacabados, publicados postumamente. Com histórias que remetem à infância da escritora e o toque de sarcasmo específico de Mansfield, o quarto livro lançado da coleção de Katherine Mansfield pela Editora Cabriolé apresenta seus 21 contos em sua ordem original, organizados pelo primeiro curador de Mansfield, o marido John Middleton Murry.
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (nascida Beauchamp; 14 de outubro de 1888 – 9 de janeiro de 1923), foi uma escritora e crítica neozelandesa que foi uma figura importante no movimento modernista. Suas obras são celebradas em todo o mundo e foram publicadas em 25 idiomas.[1]
"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."
George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he?
The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carré's chillingly amoral universe.
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‘Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ... excellent writing' – Observer ‘Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard' – Sunday Telegraph
Praise for Call for the Dead
“A finely wrought and compelling admixture of three types of crime writing: the novel of action and excitement that we commonly call a thriller, the spy story, and the detective story.”– P. D. James, from the Foreword
“A subtle and acute story of counter-espionage marked by restraint, indirection, and intelligence.”– The New York Times Book Review
Praise for John Le Carré
“Le Carré is more than just a great storyteller– he captures the Zeitgeist itself.”– Tom Wolfe
“No other contemporary novelist has more durably enjoyed the twin badges of being both well-read and well-regarded.”– Scott Turow
“He is one of the half-dozen best novelists now working in English.”– Chicago Sun-Times
“Le Carré is one of the best novelists– of any kind– we have.”– Vanity Fair
“A brilliant linguistic artist with a keen eye for the exotic and not-so-exotic locale, a crafty, moralizer with an occasional bent for sentiment.”– The Wall Street Journal
An investigator teams up with an unexpected ally to expose a sinister organization in the gripping second book of a classic trilogy set in the Wild Cards universe created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones.Now featuring a stunning new cover!
An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. The uninfected are known as nats.
Nat investigator Hannah Davis has discovered the shadowy group of powerful figures that has orchestrated countless attacks on jokers since the wild card virus was first discovered. The Card Sharks have one goal: to purge the world of everyone who holds the virus.
With the help of Gregg Hartmann—once a puppeteering ace politician but now a joker himself—Hannah and her ragtag crew of joker activists must work to expose the leaders...
The moment Ewan McBride entered my life, my world tilted on its axis.
When we part, I promise him I owe him anything for saving my daughter's life.
What I didn't expect?
Being his fake date to a wedding—in two days.
It was only supposed to be a favor, but we can't deny the attraction.
Only he lives a state away and my life is in Colorado with my daughter and the Montgomerys.
This can only be one night that feels all too real.
Yet I know walking away will be the hardest thing I ever do.
**Always a Fake Bridesmaid is a next generation, single mom, grumpy rancher, fake dating romance set in the Montgomery World & Clover Lake series featuring Livvy & Ewan. Each book can be read as a complete standalone. An HEA is guaranteed!**
Livvy Montgomery is Shep and Shae's daughter from Ink Inspired.
A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.
Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be—or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher (“Kit”) Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit's daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?
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“At the moment a new generation is stumbling upon his work, le Carré is still writing at something close to the top of his game.... [A Delicate Truth] is an elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare. It has a gently flickering love story and jangling ending. And le Carré has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times Magazine
“The narrative dominoes fall with masterly precision....As ever, le Carré's prose is fluid, carrying the reader toward an inevitable yet nail-biting climax.”—Olen Steinhauer, The New York Times Book Review
“A ripping, fun yarn.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Loyalty to the crown is tested; consciences are checked; and nothing is more terrifying than, as this novel's protagonist puts it, ‘a solitary decider' asking himself how on earth he talked himself into this mess.”—The Daily Beast
“A career's worth of literary skill and international analysis.....No other writer has chartered...the public and secret history of his times.”—The Guardian (UK)
“Remarkable....[A Delicate Truth] displays the mastery of the early and the passion of late Le Carré.”—Robert McCrum, The Observer (UK)
“Writing of such quality that...it will be read in one hundred years....[Le Carré] found his canvas in espionage, as Dickens did in other worlds. The two men deserve comparison.”—Daily Mail (UK)
“Le Carré further establishes himself as a master of a new, shockingly realistic kind of noir.”—Booklist (Starred)
“This is a guaranteed hair-raising cerebral fright, especially for anyone who enjoyed Robert Harris's The Ghost or who just knows his or her email account has been hacked.”—Library Journal (Starred)
“Le Carré focuses on the moral rot and creeping terror barely concealed by the affable old-boy blather that marks the pillars of the intelligence community.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
“A great story in sterling prose.”—Publishers Weekly
New York Times bestselling author John le Carré (A Delicate Truth and Spy Who Came in from the Cold) was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
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Em Histórias de Homens e Fantasmas, Edith Wharton retorna em mais uma coletânea de contos que transitam entre o psicológico e o sobrenatural, explorando as complexidades da mente humana e os dilemas da sociedade do início do século XX. Longe de serem simples entidades, a obra mergulha naquilo que mais aterroriza os homens – suas ambições, fracassos e ilusões – com uma narrativa atemporal e irônica.
Desde o conto A Porta Trancada, que subverte o romance gótico ao narrar a obsessão de um dramaturgo pelo próprio destino trágico, até Os Olhos, onde os fantasmas internos assombram seus personagens, Wharton combina sutileza psicológica com reflexões sobre moralidade e identidade. Com contos que oscilam entre o realismo psicológico e o fantástico, Wharton confirma sua maestria ao expor os conflitos da alma e os fantasmas, reais ou metafóricos, que perseguem seus personagens.
Edith Wharton (nascida Edith Newbold Jones; Nova York, 24 de janeiro de 1862 – Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, 11 de agosto de 1937) foi uma escritora norte-americana.
Foi a primeira mulher a ganhar o Prêmio Pulitzer de Ficção, em 1921, pelo romance The Age of Innocence (A época da inocência) (1920). Foi também a primeira mulher a receber o título de doutora honoris causa pela Universidade de Yale.
A documentary filmmaker uncovers the secrets of an enigmatic author in this subtly enthralling novel from “one of Europe's most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review).
For days, documentary filmmaker Andrea and her team have been waiting for Richard Wechsler in his Swiss hometown. During their first shoots in Paris, the famous writer had not wanted to reveal much about himself, and now the whole film threatens to fail.
In the narrow streets and alleys of the village, Andrea searches for traces of Wechsler's life, contrary to their agreement. But it is not until she starts reading his books again that she discovers a clue to a childhood sweetheart who might still be living there. An old love who influenced his whole life, but whom no one ever knew about.
Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry. The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge. The fourth element in a tetralogy of novels - Earth (The Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, “Waking to Eden, “ in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by...
Zuid-Afrika, 1820. In een aangespoelde boot ontdekt Ann Waite twee schipbreukelingen: een zeeman vol littekens en een baby. De zeeman weigert enige hulp en maakt zich snel uit de voeten. Ann besluit het jongetje op te voeden als haar eigen zoon, en noemt hem Harry. Twee jaar later drijft het lot Ann en Harry terug op het pad van de mysterieuze schipbreukeling: Ralph Courtney. Hij is net ontsnapt van Robbeneiland en wil samen met lotgenoten zijn fortuin maken in Nativity Bay, de legendarische plek waarover zijn vader hem vertelde. Daarbij rekenden Ralph en zijn medepioniers buiten de invloed van krijgerskoning Shaka, wiens koninkrijk grenst aan Nativity Bay. Terugkeren is onmogelijk, en Ralph wordt gedwongen het verleden waar hij altijd voor weg heeft gerend onder ogen te komen.
A #1 New York Times bestseller for 34 weeks and the book that launched John le Carré's career worldwide
In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse—a desk job—Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge. Assuming the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-agent, Leamas is set up to trap Mundt, the deputy director of the East German Intelligence Service—with himself as the bait. In the background is George Smiley, ready to make the game play out just as Control wants.
Setting a standard that has never been surpassed, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a devastating tale of duplicity and espionage.
Amazon.com Review
It would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carré's first masterpiece, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the “finest spy story ever written,” and that the taut tale concerns Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin. Leamas is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive, but East Germans start killing them, so he gets called back to London by Control, his spy master. Yet instead of giving Leamas the boot, Control gives him a scary assignment: play the part of a disgraced agent, a sodden failure everybody whispers about. Control sends him back out into the cold–deep into Communist territory to checkmate the bad-guy spies on the other side. The political chessboard is black and white, but in human terms the vicinity of the Berlin Wall is a moral no-man's land, a gray abyss patrolled by pawns.
Le Carré beats most spy writers for two reasons. First, he knows what he's talking about, since he raced around working for British Intelligence while the Wall went up. He's familiar with spycraft's fascinations, but also with the fact that it leaves ideals shaken and emotions stirred. Second, his literary tone has deep autobiographical roots. Spying is about betrayal, and Le Carré was abandoned by his mother and betrayed by his father, a notorious con man. (They figure heavily in his novels Single & Single and A Perfect Spy.) In a world of lies, Le Carré writes the bitter truth: it's every man for himself. And may the best mask win. –Tim Appelo
“The best spy story I have ever read.”
(Graham Greene )
“First-rate and tremendously exciting.”
(Daphne du Maurier )
“Le Carré is one of the best novelists—of any kind—we have.”
(Vanity Fair )
“Written . . . with a pitiless, elegant clarity, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a first-rate thriller and more.”
(Time )
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger member and its last hope. Charged with handling Fred Leiser, a German-speaking Pole left over from the War, Avery must infiltrate the East and restore his masters' former glory.
Darkly compelling and brutally Machiavellian, The Looking Glass War is a stunning accomplishment by one of today's most remarkable and enduring literary writers.
Review
“Le Carré is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster.”
(Newsweek )
“A book of rare and great power.”
(Financial Times (U.K.) )
“A bitter, bleak, superlatively written novel.”
(Publishers Weekly )
John le Carré, the author of twenty-two novels, is the pseudonym for David Cornwell, who was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. Many of his books have been made into films, including The Constant Gardener, The Russia House, TheLittle Drummer Girl, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
"Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?"
John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.
Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs. Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband—an assistant master at Carne School—is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs. Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realizes that in life—as in espionage—nothing is quite what it appears.
Review
“Le Carré is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster.”
(Newsweek )
“Beautifully intelligent, satiric, and witty.”
(The Observer (UK) )
“Vastly entertaining.”
(The Sunday Telegraph (UK) )
“[Le Carré] is one of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man's land.”
(Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times )
John le Carré, the pseudonym for David Cornwell, was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became a worldwide bestseller. He has written twenty-two novels, which have been published in thirty-six languages. Many of his books have been made into films, including The Constant Gardener, *The Russia House,*The Little Drummer Girl, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.