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How are you enjoying it so far?

What’s everyone reading this weekend?

1/26/67: Sidney Lumet's The Deadly Affair, via the Le Carre novel [M: Quincy Jones]
w/Mr. James Mason, Simone Signoret, Schell, Andersson
Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/99
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The author in thoughtful pose. This picture is fine. I’m wearing headphones, there’s a nice background and a picture of the book. Stubble, eyebrows, short hair. All good.

AAH! This picture is NOT fine. I look as if I’m about to swallow a passing bat. Weird mouth shape, curiously distributed teeth. My vanity is VERY sad.

Yeah, I’ve got an Insight for you: I should have said “yes” when my orthodontist offered to fix my teeth when I was ten, but I never wanted to be on TV and I still don’t.

Insta Link (short clip from the @spybrary.bsky.social podcast on Karla’s Choice):

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Absolute spot on @johnsipher.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-car-chas...

Thank you for sharing our work, Helen.

I will seek that one out. Thanks. Such a fascinating country, I am planning a trip back this summer because KC has reawakened my interest in Mitteleuropa.

I have bought so many excellent books in London that I will be coughing up luggage excess fees (again!) I am blaming @harkaway.bsky.social and Esterhase for this last minute book purchase. Kosonom.

She is on X and if you operate in the murky shadows of FB, she regularly posts in our Spybrary community there, along with 4000 other spy book enthusiasts - www.spybrary.com/community

Read why I picked these five spy novels at: fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

2024 is an epic year for quality spy reads once again. Narrowing my favourites down to just five is a tough assignment, but that's called Five Book Rules. Check out my interview with the epic @fivebooks.com at the link in the first reply. @harkaway.bsky.social @merlenygate.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing. I love @fivebooks.com so it is always an honour to share my five favourites with them.

YouTube video by Dartmouth Films From Roger Moore With Love (2024) | Official Trailer

Very excited for this. I have not seen Roger Moore on the big screen since the late ‘80s. He was my absolute hero growing up and still is.

youtu.be/KPJ33hx7DAI

#rogermoore #jamesbond #simontemplar

Buy Karla’s Choice superbly written by @harkaway.bsky.social and pick up a free #Spybrary bookmark at Waterstones Piccadilly.

The best crime and thrillers of 2024 A choice of whodunnits, a return for le Carré’s Smiley, and dark, disturbing encounters in the woods

Well done IS Berry and @harkaway.bsky.social

What are some of your favourite spy thrillers of 2024?

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

The cover of ‘A Reluctant Spy

Really, really chuffed to discover today that #AReluctantSpy has gone to a second hardback printing less than three months after release! Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy and talked about my book.

‘There’s more to life than books you know but not much more.’

Support your local book shops.

If you find yourself over Chiswick/Hammersmith way do check out Everybody Reads and buy a book or five.

#booksoversocks

An Evening with Nick Harkaway | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Nick Harkaway today.

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Bring your own drawing pin and yellow chalk. Tonight in Hampstead. @harkaway.bsky.social will be interviewed by @shippersunbound.bsky.social of the Sunday Times at Waterstones Hampstead.

Link to book in the first comment

#karlaschoice #johnlecarré #nickharkaway

I was lucky enough to attend the @waterstones.bsky.social event with @philippesands.bsky.social expertly interrogating @harkaway.bsky.social . Read my field report here

#johnlecarré #nickharkaway

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Reader meet author. Lovely to catch up with Merle Nygate today! Honour Among Spies is one of my top spy book picks of 2024!!

I agree with Charles Cumming ‘Merle Nygate is a writer to watch’ and with the podcaster who said that Merle writes ‘modern day Len Deighton-style page turners.’

#spybrary

YouTube video by Spy TV - Spybrary Biffy Dunderdale: The Real Life Inspiration For Fleming's James Bond?

watch at www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVBY...

Did real-life spy Biffy Dunderdale inspire James Bond?

From sinking German trawlers at 17 to mingling with Ian Fleming, Dunderdale's life feels straight out of a spy novel. Discover his incredible story on Spybrary.
Watch now on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app! #Spybrary #JamesBond

I am hearing the same sentiments from our agents around the globe. I am excited to listen to it on Audible and hear what I missed on a first read.

Buy the new George Smiley novel by @harkaway.bsky.social and get a free #Spybrary bookmark. Or you can just nab the bookmark but miss out on what is my favourite spy novel of 2024 @foylesforbooks.bsky.social

#johnlecarré #georgesmiley

Thanks to all who are following me. I am just getting settled in here and will be following you all back, well maybe not the conspiracy whackos and extremists… oh wait there aren’t any! #Spybrary

Who else collects books in non English language editions? The literal translation is Shadows from Yesterday but what’s the original novel’s English title? #johnlecarré #johnlecarre

Morning Bluesky! Since I seem to have acquired *another* couple of hundred followers since yesterday, I thought I'd re-post a book trailer I made for #AReluctantSpy, which came out in September from @headlinebooks.bsky.social (with a special edition from @goldsborobooks.bsky.social) - Enjoy!

Hear hear!

CrimeFest 2025 to feature exclusive John le Carré event with author’s two sons CrimeFest 2025 is set to feature an exclusive John le Carré event with author's two sons. Le Carré’s son, Nick Harkaway will attend the ‘Ghost of Honour’ panel to discuss his latest novel, Karla’s Cho...

Heads up John Le Carré fans. @harkaway.bsky.social to speak at CrimeFest 2025 event. www.thebookseller.com/news/crimefe...