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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 (Martin Scorsese serves as an executive producer) in which the prodigiously talented Robertson – who com...

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 Jennings facilitates the CFDG. Jennings is an author and editor who lives in Rockland. Her fiction includes...

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 Methuselah. This is not just the look of a man annoyed that he’s having to miss out on a birthday ...

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 – not for a secret assignment, but for an espionage novel he was writing while still working for the B...