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TOP TV: Paul Whitelaw chooses the shows for the week ahead including a cameo from Adrian Dunbar in inside No.9 By Paul Whitelaw © Supplied © Supplied Once Were Brothers looks at the story of The Band. Note that subtitle: this documentary tells the often fraught story of the legendary Band through Robertson’s elder statesman, rose-tinted gaze. The only other surviving Band-member, Garth Hudson, oddly doesn’t appear at all. Nevertheless, it’s still an engaging, well-made film (Marti...

Finished before his death in December, le Carré gave his blessing to publish the novel, which follows a bookseller who becomes embroiled in a spy leak

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 3:00pm Launched in 2020, the Contemporary Fiction Discussion Group (CFDG) enjoys lively and thought-provoking conversations about celebrated novels by prize-winning international authors. The group currently meets via Zoom, on the third Wednesday of each month, at 3 p.m., and welcomes new members. The first meeting of 2021 is set for January 20 and the Library invites interested readers to contact: pking@ rocklandmaine.gov for more information. Maureen Anne Jenning...

John le Carré at the premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in 2011 Credit: Sang Tan/AP One of John le Carré’s final public appearances came on his 88th birthday – October 19 2019 – when he was one of the hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the “Together for the Final Say” march calling for a second Brexit referendum. There’s a fine photograph of him on that day, with his walking stick and “Bollocks to Brexit” sticker, eyes stern under beetling brows worthy of ...

Craig Sisterson pays tribute to a legend. On December 12, one of the world’s greatest spy masters slipped from this world. Not from an assassin’s bullet in a darkened alley, poisoning from a nerve agent, or a wretched betrayal by someone wrongly trusted; but pneumonia. After a lifetime entwined with spycraft, David John Moore Cornwell, formerly of MI5 and MI6, passed away in his hospital bed, aged 89. As the news broke the following day, the cover name Cornwell had created 60 years ago – ...

Ten Lessons in Intelligence December 19, 2020 . T here is no shortage of intelligence-themed or spy-related books on the market. From titles claiming something akin to “spy skills that will save your life” to “how do detect deception in your spouse”, there is a public appetite for a peek behind the curtain at the clandestine world. These typically trend more James Bond than George Smiley; more action than introspection, often resembling potboiler thrillers found in pharmacies and airpor...

"His father didnt admit until he [le Carré] was an adult that hed served a jail term, and his mother left late at night without saying goodbye," said Sisman. As a boy, le Carré told school friends his father had been a spy. Sisman explained: "He was of a generation, during the war, that what your dad did was terribly crucial. Ronnie was that most despised person, a war profiteer, rather than away at the front fighting in the army." "He was sent to Sherborne, the Dorset public school, but ran ...

Died: December 12, 2020 JOHN le Carré, the pen name of David Cornwell, who has died aged 89, had the kind of upbringing most writers dream of but few would want to experience. From an early age he learned to keep secrets which, when he turned to producing novels in which spying and deceit, lies and betrayal were ubiquitous, served him bountifully for the best part of six decades. His mother left when he was young and he was brought up – if that’s the right phrase – by his father. R...

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His comments come in contrast to current C Richard Moore - who led tributes The celebrated spy author Le Carré died in Cornwall on Saturday at the age of 89 Spy author John le Carré tarnished MI6 and his novels were a stain on the secret service, its former head has claimed. Sir Richard Dearlove blasted the writer - real name David Cornwell - for successfully tarring the moral reputation of his former colleagues. ADVERTISEMENT His comments come in stark contrast to current C Richard Moor...