Silverview Synopsis
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish emigre living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . .
Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carre asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780241994535 |
| Publication date: |
28th April 2022 |
| Author: |
John le Carré |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
272 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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John le Carré Press Reviews
'I've got a soft spot for John le Carre' Barack Obama
'His characters are rarely ciphers; they're all wrestling their ambitions and frustrations and inadequacies and posturings' Ralph Fiennes
'John le Carre brought style and substance to the spy novel . . . our great chronicler of the geopolitical made personal' Ian Rankin
'Sui generis, a true master of the art' Adrian McKinty
'Not one word of excessive emotion in his books, and yet by the end, you're wrung out by them, wiser, more understanding of the human condition' Kit de Waal
'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris
'As a writer he transcended mere genre. His books will live as long as people continue to read' John Banville
'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan
'First-rate prose and a fascinating plot. a fitting coda to a remarkable career' Publishers Weekly
'Le Carre is the master of the spy genre' Guardian
'In a league of his own' Sunday Times
'A literary master for a generation' Observer
About John le Carré
John le Carré 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. His works include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Smiley's People; The Little Drummer Girl; A Perfect Spy; The Russia House; and Absolute Friends.
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