Accounts from le Carré’s life

More than half a century after ‘The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’ became a bestseller, John le Carré is back. Bloomsbury India announces the release of a biography by Adam Sisman titled ‘John le Carré: The Biography’.

Written with access to the private life of le Carré himself, and accounts from people close to him, this book on the life of the great novelist le Carré, is an interesting read. The book takes readers through the journey of his life – his bleak childhood in the wake of his mother’s departure,

his ‘sixteen hugless years’ in the care of his father, a serial seducer and conman, to being the master of espionage novels. Author Adam Sisman is an award-winning author and biographer of two others - AJP Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper.