Harry Starks is a man of many talents - club owner, racketeer, porn king and keen Judy Garland fan, to name but a few. His business is fronting violence with rough charm, putting on the frighteners while trying to jump the counter into legitimacy.
Five characters chart Harry's rise and fall in an epic testimony where high life meets lowlife as the seedy end of the swinging Sixties is brought into ruthless verisimilitude.

'Truly fascinating...Arnott'r ability to powerfully resurrect an era...is astonishing. A great read' Guardian
'Very funny, oddly touching and unobtrusively perceptive...l enjoyed it considerably more than Hannibal' Pete Clark, Evening Standard
'Cool, stylish and venomous...one of the smartest, funniest and original novels you will read all year' Independent on Sunday

In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into ‘the theatre of the real’ by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist.

The Little Drummer Girl is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.

‘An exciting story, excitingly told’ Observer

Lured by Israeli intelligence into the world of espionage, Charlie, a young actress, is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist.

Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. His quest takes him to the Foreign Office in London, across Europe and Canada and back to Africa, to the depths of South Sudan, and finally to the very spot where Tessa died. On his way Justin meets terror, violence, laughter, conspiracy and knowledge. But his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love.

The enduring Cold War novel by one of our greatest storytellers.

'A great thriller, the best le Carre has written' The Spectator

John le Carré was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.

With this superb, now classic novel of suspense, le Carre changed the rules of the game. His story is of one last breathlessly perilous assignment for the agent who wants desperately to end his career of espionage - to come in from the cold. 'Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell' J.B. Priestley

Uncertain evidence suggests Soviet missiles are being put in a place close to the German border, while vital film has gone missing and a courier is dead. The Department has to find an old hand who will prove its mettle.

A new hardback edition for an enduring le Carre novel How long was it since the Department had mounted an operation? Too long. Now it has a job on its hands. Uncertain evidence suggests Soviet missiles being put in place close to the German border, while vital film has gone missing and a courier is dead. The Department has to find an old hand who will prove its mettle. Fred Leiser, a German-speaking Pole turned Englishman, once a qualified radio-operator, now something in the motor trade, must be called back to the colours and sent East...

John le Carré was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.

George Smiley was simply doing a favour for an old friend, Miss Ailsa Brimley, who edited a small religious newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried woman reader: 'I' m not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me.' The writer of the letter was one Stella Rode, wife to an assistant master at Carne School, Dorset, and by the time it arrived, she was dead. Carne was an ancient, self-regarding Church foundation, proud of its proper standards of social distinctions. George Smiley went there to listen, take sherry, ask questions and think. And thus uncover, layer upon layer, the complexities, skeletons and hatreds that comprised this little English institution.

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'A classic le Carré' The Sunday Times

It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful, equally sceptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe cliches of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage professionals on both sides. The Russia House: a spy story, a love story, and a fable for our time.

Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for twenty years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other into the lawless wilds of Moscow and then Southern Russia until a small, unheard-of nation becomes their proving ground in the finale to John le Carre's dazzling novel.

The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. He illuminates the brave past and even braver present of George Smiley, his hero and mentor, who gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him - and the world - for thirty years ...

John le Carré was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.

'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer

The night manager is Jonathan, orphan son of a soldier hero, too-young veteran of clandestine operations in the bandit country of South Armagh. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade, but finds no escape from his demons. Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly by an inherited patriotism, Jonathan allows himself to be recruited as a British secret agent with a mission to expose the murderer of the woman he himself betrayed. THE NIGHT MANAGER is a story of majestic reach, funny, sad, captivating and constantly thrilling; a tale of wickedness and courage, love and greed, of one man's search for himself in a world going to the devil - and of two women, one murdered and one living, who mysteriously direct his journey.

A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder. SINGLE & SINGLE is a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carre at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.

Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.

The renowned comedian and presenter Alexei Sayle proves himself to be a formidable literary talent in this wonderful collection of sleek, dark, and witty short stories.
Barcelona Plates is a collection of dark and witty tales which heralds the arrival of an outstanding new talent on the literary scene, one which will receive both public and critical acclaim. It portrays a world where life can at times be cool and dark, or blood-hot and violent - but always served up with a twist. The characters are vividly, wryly - and occasionally disturbingly - portrayed, the style is crisp, the humour is biting. This is story-telling at its best.

Alexei Saylels collection of hilarious, touching, and disturbing modern stories approach genius. You will read them, reread them, and never stop taking about them' Muriel Gray

Alexei Sayle was the original compere when the Comedy Store opened, moving on to front the Comic Strip. He appeared in (and helped to write) The Young Ones and has had six series of his own TV comedy show on BBC. The shows have won awards ranging from the Broadcasting Press Guild and The Royal Television Society Awards for Best TV Comedy Series, through to a Rose of Montreux and an International Emmy. Other TV credits include writing and presenting episodes of the BBC arts programme Arena. He has written and starred in a number of TV films including Didn't You Kill My Brother and Itch and, most recently, the romantic comedy Sorry About Last Night. His film work includes roles in Gorky Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Swing. Acting roles on TV include parts in Whoops Apocalypse, The Strike, Night Voice and Selling Hitler. He has presented several TV series including Sex, Drugs and Dinner, Drive and Great Railway Journeys of the World. He has appeared in many radio series including several series of Lenin of the Revers (as Lenin of course), presented the radio journalism series Fourth Column and has just written and starred in a radio series of Sorry About Last Night. He has been a regular columnist on the Sunday Mirror, Time Out, Observer, Independent, Car. Barcelona Plates is his first collection of stories, with a novel to come in 2001.