Summer Reads

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Possibly the quintessential example of an espionage novel transcending genre boundaries to establish itself as a matchless literary classic, A Perfect Spy is a simply staggering achievement. Interrogating the notion of the archetypal secret agent, le...

THE THIRD GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL.Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He...

THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVELGeorge Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky...

Proving as adept at the global eco thriller as he was at Cold War page turners, The Constant Gardener combines probing character study with precision plotted and gripping storytelling. Tracking a bereaved husband’s path through a web of international...

'A work of rare brilliance' --  The TimesCharmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks...

As ripe for revisiting as The Night Manager, John le Carré’s 1983 thriller - now adapted for television - brilliantly presages the duplicity of our times. Razor-sharp, precisely plotted and gripping. Soon to be a major BBC TV series Terrorist...

…It’s a dangerous world out there, Perry. Perhaps you haven’t heard about that, but the rest of us have, and we endeavour to live with it. With all due respect, I would strongly advise you to go with the flow. Britain is in the depths of recession...

'One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published' -- GuardianAn illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the...

THE FIRST GEORGE SMILEY NOVELAfter a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the death, he begins his own investigation, meeting...

…Smiley, his damp hand cupped round the end of his cigarette, watching and hating, triumphed that he knew his enemy. Dead men receive no calls. Dead men write no letters. After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan...

THE FIFTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL.A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in...

He was a compact man but tentative, with a smile of apologetic self-protection. Even his Englishness was a well-kept secret… At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on...

Undoubtedly one of the decade’s most anticipated novels. Le Carré expertly draws the dark secrets of the Cold War into the present. A masterful thriller that considers the terrible price of history. 'It is a splendid novel...It is riveting, bitter...

'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written'  --  Donna TarttThis is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century,...

A masterpiece of black comedy and sepulchral atmosphere, Jackson’s signature work introduces a gallery of unhinged characters and sinister machinations in a twisted tale of venality and wilful greed. Living in the Blackwood family home with only her...

The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author ofThe Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle.'An amazing writer' Neil GaimanElizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no...

'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.We walk about under a load of memories which we long to share and somehow never can.John Flory, a white timber merchant in 1920s Burma, has unorthodox views. To him,...

New York Times bestseller Elle Kennedy brings you a sexy new Off-Campus novel that can be read as a standalone...She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy...Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be...