John le Carré

by Adam Sisman

  BBC Written Archives Centre, Caversham

  British Film Institute

  British Library

  Papers and Correspondence of Al Alvarez

  Papers and Correspondence of Sir Alec Guinness

  Eton College Archives

  Gollancz Archive

  Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas

  Papers and Correspondence of C. P. Snow

  Papers and Correspondence of Tom Stoppard

  Papers and Manuscripts of John le Carré relating to The Little Drummer Girl

  Hodder & Stoughton Archive

  Leeds University, Brotherton Library

  Papers and Correspondence of Lord Boyle

  National Archives, Kew

  Official Receiver’s file on R. T. A. Cornwell

  National Library of Scotland

  Papers and Correspondence of James Kennaway

  Oxford University

  Bodleian Library

  John le Carré Archive

  Lincoln College Archive

  Papers and Correspondence of Vivian Green

  Papers and Correspondence of Keith Murray

  Papers and Correspondence of Walter Oakeshott

  Poole Local History Centre

  Random House Archive

  Heinemann Papers

  University of Salford Library

  Papers and Correspondence of Arthur Hopcraft

  Sherborne School Archives

  A. P. Watt Archive

  2. Books

  Andrew, Christopher, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Allen Lane, 2009)

  Bower, Tom, The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War 1935–90 (Heinemann, 1995)

  Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Judith S. Baughman (eds), Conversations with John le Carré (University Press of Mississippi, 2004)

  le Carré, John, Call for the Dead (Gollancz, 1961)

  —A Murder of Quality (Gollancz, 1962)

  — The Spy who Came in from the Cold (Gollancz, 1963)

  — The Looking-Glass War (Heinemann, 1965)

  — A Small Town in Germany (Heinemann, 1968)

  — The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971)

  — Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1974)

  — The Honourable Schoolboy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1977)

  — Smiley’s People (Hodder & Stoughton, 1980)

  — The Little Drummer Girl (Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)

  — A Perfect Spy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1986)

  — The Russia House (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989)

  — The Secret Pilgrim (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991)

  — The Night Manager (Hodder & Stoughton, 1993)

  — Our Game (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995)

  — The Tailor of Panama (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)

  — Single & Single (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999)

  — The Constant Gardener (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001)

  — Absolute Friends (Hodder & Stoughton, 2004)

  — The Mission Song (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)

  — A Most Wanted Man (Hodder & Stoughton, 2008)

  — Our Kind of Traitor (Viking Penguin, 2010)

  — A Delicate Truth (Viking Penguin, 2013)

  le Carré, John et al., ‘The Unbearable Peace’, Granta 35 (1991)— ‘Sarratt and the Draper of Watford’, in Sarratt and the Draper of Watford, and other unlikely stories about Sarratt (privately published, 1999)

  Clark, Colin, Younger Brother, Younger Son: A Memoir (HarperCollins, 1997)

  Davenport-Hines, Richard, An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (HarperCollins, 2013)

  Douglas Home, William, Half-Term Report: An Autobiography (Longman, 1954)

  Gourlay, A. B., A History of Sherborne School (privately published, 1971)

  Gourlay, A. B. and D. F. Gibbs, Chief: A Biography of Alexander Ross Wallace, 1891–1982 (privately published, 1983).

  Green, Vivian H. H., The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427–1977 (Oxford University Press, 1979)

  Greenfield, George, A Smattering of Monsters: A Kind of Memoir (Little, Brown, 1995)

  Greenway, H. D. S., Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2014)

  Guinness, Alec, My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor (Hamish Hamilton, 1996)

  Rainer Heumann 26.9.1923–5.3.1996 (privately published, Zurich)

  Jago, Michael, The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham (Biteback, 2013)

  Jeffery, Keith, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949 (Bloomsbury, 2010)

  Kennaway, James and Susan, The Kennaway Papers (Jonathan Cape, 1981)

  Knightley, Phillip, Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy (André Deutsch, 1988)

  Macintyre, Ben, A Spy among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Bloomsbury, 2014)

  Marten, Michael (ed.), Tim Marten – Memories (privately published, 2009)

  Martin, Christopher (ed.), Millfield: A School for All Seasons (privately published, 2007)

  Mount, Ferdinand, Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes (Bloomsbury, 2008)

  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  Powell-Williams, Clive, With All Thy Might: The History of St Martin’s School, 1922 to 1992 (privately published, 1992)

  Read, Piers Paul, Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography (Simon & Schuster, 2003)

  Rimington, Stella, Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 (Hutchinson, 2001)

  Roberts, John C. Q., Speak Clearly into the Chandelier: Cultural Politics between Britain and Russia, 1973–2000 (Curzon, 2000)

  Royle, Trevor, James and Jim: A Biography of James Kennaway (Mainstream, 1983)

  — The Best Years of Their Lives: The National Service Experience, 1945–63 (Michael Joseph, 1986)

  Rushdie, Salman, Joseph Anton: A Memoir (Random House, 2012)

  St John, John, William Heinemann: A Century of Publishing, 1890–1990 (Heinemann, 1990)

  Seaton, Jean, Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation, 1974–1987 (Profile, 2015)

  Sherry, Norman, The Life of Graham Greene, vol. 3: 1955–1991 (Jonathan Cape, 2004)

  Talbott, Strobe, The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (Random House, New York, 2002)

  Thorpe, D. R., Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan (Chatto & Windus, 2010)

  Waugh, Alec, The Loom of Youth (Methuen, 1917)

  Wodehouse, John, 4th Earl of Kimberley, The Whim of the Wheel: The Memoirs of the Earl of Kimberley (privately published, 2001)

  Wright, Peter, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (Viking Penguin, 1987)

  3. Articles by John le Carré

  ‘Vienna: In search of a lost spy story’, Weekend Telegraph, 24 June 1966

  ‘Well Played, Wodehouse’, Sunday Times, 10 October 1971

  ‘In England Now’, New York Times Magazine, 23 October 1977

  ‘Spying on my Father’, Sunday Times Review, 16 March 1986

  ‘Don’t be Beastly to your Secret Service’, Sunday Times Review, 23 March 1986

  ‘The Clandestine Muse’, originally written as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Lecture in 1978, and published privately as the G. Harry Pouder Memorial Lecture, delivered at Johns Hopkins University on 20 May 1986

  ‘Smiley’s People are Alive and Well’, Guardian Review, 16 November 1989

  ‘Now You See It, Now You Don’t’, The Times Magazine, 7 August 1993

  ‘Quel Panama!’, New York Times Magazine, 20 October 1996

  ‘At the Edge of the Real World’, Sunday Telegraph Review, 14 November 1999

  ‘The Constant Muse’, New Yorker, 25 December 2000

  ‘A Good Deed in a Naughty World’, Victim Support, 2000

  ‘Son of a Swindler’, Sunday Times, 1 July 2001

  ‘In Ronnie’s Court’, New Yorker, 18 and 25 February 2002

  ‘The United States of America Has Gone Mad’, The Time
s, 15 January 2003

  ‘Dear Clark County Voter’, Guardian, 13 October 2004

  ‘A guide through the complexities of my plots’, Guardian, 5 March 2005, originally ‘Vivian H. H. Green’, a eulogy given at his memorial service in Oxford in 2005

  ‘My Date with the Warlords’, Seven (Sunday Telegraph magazine), 10 September 2006

  ‘The Madness of Spies’, New Yorker, 29 September 2008

  ‘Who Watches the Watchmen?’ Waterstone’s Books Quarterly, Issue 30, 2008

  ‘The Spy Who Liked Me: On the set with Richard Burton and Martin Ritt’, New Yorker, 15 April 2013