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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre 19452020

John le Carré

A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years

John le Carre was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Private Spy is the story of that life told through the voice of this masterful writer.

We hear le Carre as a teenager and then as a young man trying to make his way in the world. There are beautiful and moving letters to le Carre’s stepmother about his relationship with his fraudster father. And throughout the collection there is the clear, inimitable voice of this magnificent writer.

By turns intimate and comic, tender and clear-sighted, A Private Spy offers a rare and illuminating portrait of one of the great figures of our times.

The Ink Black Heart

Robert Galbraith

When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.

Robin decides that the agency can't help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways...

A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The

Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.