Book of the Day John le Carré’s acts of deception Even in his love affairs, the spy novelist used tradecraft. Has his double life come to overshadow his work? By William Boyd
Books William Boyd: The Jungle Book is the first book I remember reading. And rereading By William Boyd
The prose style of John le Carré The master of the spy novel could be simultaneously old-fashioned and thoroughly modern – but what made his fiction… By William Boyd
Unmasking Graham Greene Graham Greene was the consummate literary professional. But a new biography shows how profound mental instability shaped his chaotic… By William Boyd
Rediscovering an unsentimental World War Two memoir John Bowen’s remarkably restrained story relates a chance encounter some 45 years after the war ended. By William Boyd
How the Second World War was written If poetry was the literary form of the First World War, it was fiction that best expressed the reality… By William Boyd
Harry Rée: teacher, chancer, survivor, spy Harry Rée was a grammar school teacher when war broke out in 1939. Then he joined Churchill’s secret army. By William Boyd
Another brick in the Wall The division of Berlin created a cage designed to stop a population fleeing. It was a triumph of East… By William Boyd
John Buchan’s clubland heroes In The Thirty-Nine Steps and his other yarns – with their decent chaps in scrapes and men on the run – John… By William Boyd
Richard Sorge, the soviet agent who changed history Stalin and the seat-of-his-pants spy. By William Boyd