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Secret and Beyond – John le Carré’s battle with book titles
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We are back with a look at some of John le Carré’s unused book titles. These have been gathered from Adam Sisman’s biography, John le Carré: A Life, as well as a few from A Private Spy: The letters of John le Carré.
For more on spy book titles, listen to this episode of Spybrary where I speak with author Jeremy Duns on the difficulty of picking a book title – Title Fight! The good, the bad and the ugly of spy book titles.
See the list below –
A Clear Case of Suicide
The Carcass of the Lion
The Two-Stroke Lover
All My Life I Have Been Terrified of Ridicule
The Love Thief
The Death of Christopher Robin
The Reluctant Autumn of George Smiley
Operation Limberlost
The Twelfth Direction
The Pigeon Tunnel
The London Occasional
A Spy for Reasons of Politeness
The Giant Hunter
The Twice-Promised Girl
The Piper and the Tune
The Cage on the Roof
The Girl on the Casino Roof
Taking One All the Way Through
The Burn Box
A Man with Two Houses
A Spy with Excellent Manners
Plain Tales from the Circus
The Interrogators’ Poll
The Case Officer
The Silent Pilgrim
A Woman of Cairo
The Junior Leader
The Unknown Soldier
The Underground Soldier
The Last Clean Englishman
The Camel’s Nose
The Passion of his Time
The Road to Honeybrook Farm
A Man of the Caucasus
The Free Servant
The Siege of Heidelberg
Sasha’s Virtue
The Stay-Behind Man
Secret and Beyond
The Angry Gardener
Jeff’s site – SpyWrite.com
Jeff’s twitter – @spywrite
Music by SergeQuadrado from Pixabay
41 episodes
Manage episode 351265588 series 3374744
Donate to Room to Read here or share the link – http://tinyurl.com/spiesread
We are back with a look at some of John le Carré’s unused book titles. These have been gathered from Adam Sisman’s biography, John le Carré: A Life, as well as a few from A Private Spy: The letters of John le Carré.
For more on spy book titles, listen to this episode of Spybrary where I speak with author Jeremy Duns on the difficulty of picking a book title – Title Fight! The good, the bad and the ugly of spy book titles.
See the list below –
A Clear Case of Suicide
The Carcass of the Lion
The Two-Stroke Lover
All My Life I Have Been Terrified of Ridicule
The Love Thief
The Death of Christopher Robin
The Reluctant Autumn of George Smiley
Operation Limberlost
The Twelfth Direction
The Pigeon Tunnel
The London Occasional
A Spy for Reasons of Politeness
The Giant Hunter
The Twice-Promised Girl
The Piper and the Tune
The Cage on the Roof
The Girl on the Casino Roof
Taking One All the Way Through
The Burn Box
A Man with Two Houses
A Spy with Excellent Manners
Plain Tales from the Circus
The Interrogators’ Poll
The Case Officer
The Silent Pilgrim
A Woman of Cairo
The Junior Leader
The Unknown Soldier
The Underground Soldier
The Last Clean Englishman
The Camel’s Nose
The Passion of his Time
The Road to Honeybrook Farm
A Man of the Caucasus
The Free Servant
The Siege of Heidelberg
Sasha’s Virtue
The Stay-Behind Man
Secret and Beyond
The Angry Gardener
Jeff’s site – SpyWrite.com
Jeff’s twitter – @spywrite
Music by SergeQuadrado from Pixabay
41 episodes
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