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The son of a notorious con man, John le Carré turned deception into an art form. Does his archive unmask the author or merely prove how well he learned to disappear?
John Phipps explores.
John Phipps - Approach & Seduction
John Phipps: Approach & Seduction - John le Carré: Tradecraft; Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carré by Federico Varese (ed)
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Few writers have been so eagerly mythologised as Katherine Mansfield. The short, brilliant life, the doomed love affairs, the sickly genius have together blurred the woman behind the work.
Sophie Oliver looks to Mansfield's stories for answers.
Sophie Oliver - Restless Soul
Sophie Oliver: Restless Soul - Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
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