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Spy author John le Carré’s former Somerset home is up for sale He moved into the Grade II-listed home in 1965 The former home of spy author John le Carre (Image: SWNS) GET THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM ACROSS SOMERSET STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOXInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice The former Somerset home of spy author John le CarrÃ...

Join Celebrated espionage novelist John le Carré is the pen name of David Cornwall, who drew on his experiences as a spy for British intelligence services to write more than two dozen thrillers, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). Cornwall adopted the pseudonym because intelligence officers weren’t allowed to use their actual names. When The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) became an international bestseller, he quit his day job to focus on writing full time, publishing more than two-dozen thrillers.   In the ancient German city of Lübeck there was no finer grocer than Her...

Europhile urged resistance against UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson John le Carre shown on dark rainy street in Hamburg in 1964. Getty Images John le Carre at home with his wife Alison and their three sons, Stephen, Simon and baby Timothy in 1964. Getty Images John le Carre see in 1965. Getty Images John Le Carre lighting his pipe in 1980. Getty Images A window display promoting the upcoming serialisation of the John Le Carre spy novel 'The Looking Glass War' in the Daily Express newspaper at the Daily Express Building in Fleet Street, 1965. Getty Images John le Carre shark fishing in 1974. G...

Follow Dec. 18, 2020 Thirteen months ago, 24 prominent British non-Jews wrote a letter to the Guardian saying they could not vote for the Labour Party in the General Election about to take place in a few weeks. Their reason: Labour’s leader Jeremy Corbyn was “steeped in association with antisemitism,” “had a long record of embracing antisemites as comrades” and under “Corbyn’s leadership, Labour has come under formal investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for institutional racism against Jews.”  What was slightly surprising was the first name on the list of...

The wrong side won: Remembering John le Carré Adrian Scottow/Flickr This ambiguous conclusion is attributed to le Carré’s favourite character, George Smiley, in his novel The Secret Pilgrim, but it is an unmistakable theme of most of le Carré’s post-Cold War novels. Le Carré’s death this week came after decades of disillusionment with the new world order and his increasing disenchantment with the behaviour of the Cold War’s victors. Not that le Carré was rooting for the Soviet bloc – “the right side lost”, after all – but he became convinced that the fall of the Berlin W...