John le Carré bibliography

This is a list of works by or featuring David John Moore Cornwell, a British author better known by his pseudonym John le Carré. It also includes a list of film, television, and radio adaptations of le Carré's writing.

Novels

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Year Title Identifier Highest
NYT position
reached
Number
of weeks
on NYT list
Notes
1961 Call for the Dead OCLC 751303381
1962 A Murder of Quality OCLC 777015390
1963 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold OCLC 561198531 #1 56 number one for most of 1964
1965 The Looking Glass War OCLC 752987890 #5 14–16 weeks uncertain due to NYT strike
1968 A Small Town in Germany ISBN 0-143-12260-6 #2 28
1971 The Naïve and Sentimental Lover ISBN 0-143-11975-3 #10 2
1974 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ISBN 0-143-12093-X #1 40
1977 The Honourable Schoolboy ISBN 0-143-11973-7 #3 33
1979 Smiley's People ISBN 0-340-99439-8 #1 28
1983 The Little Drummer Girl ISBN 0-143-11974-5 #1 34
1986 A Perfect Spy ISBN 0-143-11976-1 #1 22
1989 The Russia House ISBN 0-743-46466-4 #1 21
1990 The Secret Pilgrim ISBN 0-345-50442-9 #1 12
1993 The Night Manager ISBN 0-345-38576-4 #3 13
1995 Our Game ISBN 0-345-40000-3 #2 9
1996 The Tailor of Panama ISBN 0-345-42043-8 #7 7
1999 Single & Single ISBN 0-743-45806-0 #3 7
2001 The Constant Gardener ISBN 0-743-28720-7 #4 9
2003 Absolute Friends ISBN 0-670-04489-X #3 9
2006 The Mission Song ISBN 0-340-92199-4 #3 3
2008 A Most Wanted Man ISBN 1-416-59609-7 #4 4
2010 Our Kind of Traitor ISBN 0-143-11972-9 #7 3
2013 A Delicate Truth ISBN 0-143-12531-1 #6 4
2017 A Legacy of Spies ISBN 0-7352-2511-7[1] #1 6
2019 Agent Running in the Field ISBN 1-9848-7887-5 #5 1
2021 Silverview ISBN 0-241-55006-8 #6 3 posthumous

Source: The New York Times Best Seller list[2] Figures are for the Adult Hardcover Fiction lists, 1961 through 2021: highest position reached and total number of weeks on list (possibly nonconsecutive). A "—" indicates it did not make the list. Note that the Times list consisted of a Top 10 from 1963 through 1976, but a Top 15 or 16 in the covered years before and after.

George Smiley omnibus volumes

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Short stories

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  • "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?" (1967), in Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1967
  • "What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight?" (1968), in Saturday Evening Post, 2 November 1968[3]
  • "The Writer and the Horse" (published in the US as "A Writer and A Gentleman") (1968), in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later in The Argosy and The Saturday Review (November 30, 1968)[4]
  • "The King Who Never Spoke" (2009), in Ox-Tales: Fire, 2 July 2009[5]

Non-fiction

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Film

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Screenplays

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Source(s):[9]

Executive producer

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Source(s):[9]

Actor

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Source(s):[9]

Adaptations

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After many years of working with various producers who made film adaptations of his novels, two of Cornwell's sons, Simon and Stephen, founded the production company The Ink Factory in 2010. This was to produce adaptations of his works as well as other film productions. The Ink Factory has produced the films A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor, and the TV series The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl.[15]

Film

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Source(s):[16]

Radio

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  • The Russia House (1994), BBC Radio 4, featuring Tom Baker as Barley Blair[19]
  • The Complete Smiley (2009–2010) BBC Radio 4, an eight-part radio-play series, based on the novels featuring George Smiley, commencing with Call for the Dead, broadcast on 23 May 2009, with Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley, and concluding with The Secret Pilgrim in June 2010[20]
  • A Delicate Truth (May 2013), BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, recorded by Damian Lewis[21]
  • Abridged excerpts from The Pigeon Tunnel, broadcast as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, commencing on 12 September 2016[22]

Television

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Source(s):[16]

References

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  1. ^ Kean, Danuta (7 March 2017). "George Smiley to return in new John le Carré novel, A Legacy of Spies". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Adult New York Times Best Seller Listings". Hawes Publications. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Famous Contributors: John le Carré". The Saturday Evening Post. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Manuscript Auction". Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Ox-Tales:Fire | Babel | TinyCat". Babel. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  6. ^ Le Carré, John; Buford, Bill (1991). The Unbearable Peace. Cambridge: Granta Publications. ISBN 978-0-14-015204-3. OCLC 25847433.
  7. ^ Robert McCrum (9 March 2014). "A Spy Among Friends Review: Kim Philby's Treacherous Friendship with Nicholas Elliot". The Observer. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  8. ^ Penguin Random House to Publish John le Carré's Memoir in September 2016, Le Carré Productions, 9 October 2015, archived from the original on 2 March 2016, retrieved 21 February 2016
  9. ^ a b c "John le Carré". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  10. ^ "The Tailor of Panama (2001)". BFI. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  11. ^ "'The Little Drummer Girl': John Le Carre makes appearance in second adaptation of his 1983 novel". meaww.com. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  12. ^ "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)". BFI. Archived from the original on March 10, 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  13. ^ Foster, Patrick (11 October 2016). "'Very naughty' John le Carre tried to beef up cameo role in The Night Manager". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  14. ^ Hoffman, Jordan (19 November 2018). "Everything You Need to Know About AMC's Spy Miniseries 'The Little Drummer Girl'". Thrillist. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  15. ^ Macnab, Geoffrey (30 October 2018). "The Brit 50: The Ink Factory". Screen International. Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  16. ^ a b "John le Carré". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  17. ^ Nigel Eltringham (2013). Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema. Berghahn Books. pp. 83–85. ISBN 9781782380740. Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  18. ^ Julian Friedland (2009). Doing Well and Good: The Human Face of the New Capitalism. IAP. p. 205. ISBN 9781607521761. Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  19. ^ "The Russia House". The Radio Times. No. 3680. 21 July 1994. p. 103. ISSN 0033-8060. Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  20. ^ "The Complete Smiley". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
  21. ^ "John le Carre: 'My Frustration with Britain'". BBC News. 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  22. ^ "The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carre, Book of the Week". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  23. ^ Patterson, Troy (16 November 2018). ""The Little Drummer Girl," Reviewed: A Fever Dream of Glamorous Espionage". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 1 January 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.