And I really enjoyed this new John Le Carré – of two innocents abroad ( a tennis playing British lecturer and his lawyer girl friend) falling into the maws of an expansive Russian mob character, desperate to flee with his family to the UK, for whom they act as go betweens with MI6.

A brilliant and artfully constructed novel and certainly my favourite of his so far. It is thrilling and gripping, but also beautifully written. Highly recommended! Read it.