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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . .
Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.
© The Literary Estate of David 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 14/10/2021
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ISBN: 9780241994641
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Length: 389 Minutes
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RRP: £13.00
Reviews
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Valedictory, with a final turn of events that ends surprisingly but pleasingly in a cock-up, this is a satisfying coda to the career of the finest thriller writer of the 20th century
Guardian, Books of the Year
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A compelling character study of a supposedly retired spy . . . Such was his rare command of language and unique understanding of how the world really works that I finished the book with a sense that the only real grown-up in the room had left
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
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As graceful an exit as we could hope for, the old master remaining at the top of his game to the last
Mick Herron, Daily Express, Books of the Year
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Nothing will ever match the Cold War spy novels written in his prime, but his later work illuminates themes of loyalty, betrayal and conflicting values in a modern context
Vince Cable, New Statesman, Books of the Year
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A superb example of le Carré's enduring and exquisite genius
Daily Mail, Books of the Year
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Gripping and involving, an elegant farewell by a much missed writer
Siân Phillips, Daily Express, Books of the Year
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Silverview has many of le Carré's characteristic virtues . . . engaging characters and three or four splendid set scenes in which veteran spooks stir the embers of old fires
Scotsman, Best Books of the Year
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Silverview is a cat-and-mouse chase from an East Anglian seaside town to the Eastern Bloc. Published ten months after he passed away, it marks a fitting final work by the master of spy fiction
Irish Times, Books of the Year
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A taut, thrilling spy novel. Read it as a tribute to a master
Stella, Books of the Year
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Silverview has all the old magic . . . it offers a rewarding post-script to the long-distance spell-binders The Little Drummer Girl and Absolute Friends
David Bromwich, Times Literary Supplement, Books of The Year
