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
  • Call for the Dead (1961), OCLC 751303381
  • A Murder of Quality (1962), OCLC 777015390
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), OCLC 561198531
  • The Looking Glass War (1965), OCLC 752987890
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), ISBN 0-143-12093-X
  • The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), ISBN 0-143-11973-7
  • Smiley's People (1979), ISBN 0-340-99439-8
  • The Russia House (1989), ISBN 0-743-46466-4
  • The Secret Pilgrim (1990), ISBN 0-345-50442-9
  • The Night Manager (1993), ISBN 0-345-38576-4
  • A Legacy of Spies (2017), ISBN 978-0-735-22511-4[1]

George Smiley omnibus volumes

Semi-autobiographical

Standalone

Short stories
  • "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[2]
  • "A Writer and A Gentleman" (1968), in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later in The Argosy and The Saturday Review under the same title
  • "The King Who Never Spoke" (2009), in Ox-Tales: Fire, 2 July 2009[3]

Non-fiction
  • The Good Soldier (1991), collected in Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace[4]
  • The United States Has Gone Mad (2003), collected in Not One More Death (2006), ISBN 1-844-67116-X
  • Afterword (2014), an essay on Kim Philby, published in A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre[5]
  • The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016), ISBN 978-0-241-97687-6[6]

Film

Screenplays

Source(s):[7]

Executive producer

Source(s):[7]

Actor

Source(s):[7]

Adaptations

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.[13]

Film

Source(s):[14]

Radio
  • The Russia House (1994), BBC Radio 4, featuring Tom Baker as Barley Blair[17]
  • 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[18]
  • A Delicate Truth (May 2013), BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, recorded by Damian Lewis[19]
  • Abridged excerpts from The Pigeon Tunnel, broadcast as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, commencing on 12 September 2016[20]

Television

Source(s):[14]

References
  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. "Famous Contributors: John le Carré". The Saturday Evening Post. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  3. "Ox-Tales:Fire | Babel | TinyCat". Babel. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. Le Carré, John; Buford, Bill (1991). The Unbearable Peace. Cambridge: Granta Publications. ISBN 978-0-14-015204-3. OCLC 25847433.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. "John le Carré". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  8. "The Tailor of Panama (2001)". BFI. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  9. "'The Little Drummer Girl': John Le Carre makes appearance in second adaptation of his 1983 novel". meaww.com. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  10. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)". BFI. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  11. 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.
  12. Hoffman, Jordan. "Everything You Need to Know About AMC's Spy Miniseries 'The Little Drummer Girl'". Thrillist. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  13. 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.
  14. "John le Carré". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. "The Russia House". The Radio Times (3680). 21 July 1994. p. 103. ISSN 0033-8060. Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  18. "The Complete Smiley". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
  19. "John le Carre: 'My Frustration with Britain'". BBC News. 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  20. "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.
  21. Patterson, Troy. ""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.
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