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Perfect home if you want to spy on the neighbours: Espionage author John Le Carré's Grade II-listed six bedroom cottage goes on the market for nearly £2m Spy author John le Carré moved into the stunning Grade II listed building near Wells, Somerset, in 1965 He created many of his most famous works from the studio cottage on the grounds which he used as study  The writer, whose real name was David Cornwell, died last year at the age of 89 from pneumonia Current residents carried out a 'painstaking' refurbishment and are now marketing the property for £1.95m

Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. How the Spy Who Gave Away England’s Biggest Secrets Escaped From Prison A new book examines the motives and secrets of George Blake, a British double agent who escaped to Russia after being caught for betraying his country. By Simon Kuper May 11, 2021 In 2012, the Paris-based veteran journalist Simon Kuper reached out to a friend in Moscow and asked if there was any way he could help arrange a meeting with George Blake, t...

PATRICK MARMION: Cold War British spy and Russian double agent Kim Philby was a great lover of cricket.

Ursula Kuczynski, alias Ruth Werner, alias Agent Sonya, was a Red Army officer and an expert in radio communication, a saboteur, a first-rate spy and a successful writer. She achieved all of these things while raising a family, which was both a perfect alibi and a fateful trap. If her story is not well-known, it is because until now it has not been written about. Historian Ben Macintyre, the author of several books on the shadowy world of espionage and who has recently published the Spanish-language edition of his 2020 book Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy, explains over th...

Royalty and the Reich Eddie Ford reviews Channel 4's 'Queen Elizabeth and the spy in the palace', directed by Andy Webb This documentary might not have revealed anything radically new, let alone provided solid or incontrovertible proof for its main contentions. But it certainly told the story with some verve and panache, helped by plenty of fascinating archive footage and photos - some of which I had never seen before. Therefore it is worth watching, especially if you are not particularly familiar with the subject matter. The spy in question is Anthony Blunt, third cousin to the Queen Mother....