David Chipp

Bang Bang Kiss Kiss

17F: The Life of Ian Fleming

By Donald McCormick

Christopher Andrew

Spies Who Came in from the Cold

The Man with the Poison Gun

By Serhii Plokhy

Jeremy Lewis

Hiding in Plain Sight

Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi

By Paddy Ashdown

Alan Judd

Secrets & Lies

Spymaster: The Life of Britain’s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield

By Martin Pearce

Paul Wilkinson, Anthony Storr

The Evil that Men do…

The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate': The Story of the CIA's Secret Efforts to Control Human Behaviour

By John Marks

Donald Rayfield

Philosophers & Murderers

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

By Charles Clover

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West

By Luke Harding

Christopher Andrew

Whispers in Downing Street

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers

By Richard J Aldrich, Rory Cormac

Alan Judd

The Guy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carré: The Biography

By Adam Sisman

David Stafford

The Decryption Factor

The Secret War: Spies, Codes & Guerrillas 1939–45

By Max Hastings

Alan Judd

Spider in the Web

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

By Geoff Andrews

Adam Sisman

Agent Reckless

Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

By Andrew Lownie

Gerard Russell

Inside the Shadow Theatre

Why Spy? The Art of Intelligence

By Brian T W Stewart & Samantha Newbery

Francis Wheen

His Lips Are Sealed

Never Judge a Man by his Umbrella

By Nicholas Elliott

Andrew Lycett

Day of the Journalist

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

By Frederick Forsyth

Alan Judd

Cloak & Data

The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

By Stephen Grey

Robert Irwin

Percy of Persia

Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier Spy

By Antony Wynn

Alistair Horne

By Strength Alone?

Intelligence In War: Knowledge Of The Enemy From Napoleon To Al-Qaeda

By John Keegan