Karla's choiceIt is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall unconfirmed and a little scandalous that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he

reclusive life almost by accident

All he wants is to find the woman

To solve each puzzle

she took the cheapest lodgings she could find

while forging closer ties among societies spread across Eurasia

who arrived soon after he was happily adopted

The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions

From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author

goes straight to the War Office

Luc Samson

bored and unhappy with domestic life - becomes obsessed with finding her

to the ashram of a sainted monk where he hopes to conquer his opium addiction