Film directors usually make the least promising subjects for biography. They tend to stay behind the camera and get on with making films, emerging only to make the odd promotional statement. Only ...

Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.

Emilie went on to translate Mandeville’s most celebrated work, The Fable of the Bees, a philosophical treatise centred on a ...

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