When: Thursday 19 October,
Time: 6.15pm to 8pm,
Location: Maggs Bros Bedord Square
Tickets: Fee: £12.50. PLEASE PAY BY BANK TRANSFER OR THROUGH YOUR BRANCH. Book and get bank details from [email protected].
Adam Sisman wrote his acclaimed John le Carré: The Biography (2015) with the co-operation of le Carré and of le Carré’s family. Yet there were aspects of the life of the great spy writer that Sisman could not publish – in particular, le Carré’s many affairs, which he conducted, in Sisman’s words, “like espionage operations”. Now, three years after le Carré’s death and with the co-operation of his family, Sisman is able to able to offer an even more revelatory portrait. The Secret Life of John le Carré is, the author Nicholas Shakespeare writes: “Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself.”
Come and meet Adam Sisman in discussion with Nicholas Clee, on the public and private life of John le Carré, and on the relationship between a biographer and his subject.