Midlife meditations from Barbara Kingsolver; musical portraits by Jonathan Coe and Yiyun Li; plus memoirs from Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench – all among the coming season’s highlights

The idea of returning for a second season of The Night Manager was challenging, if not downright impossible, the stars and creators say.

Double the action, suspense and even fun of 007.

The BBC and MGM+ John le Carre series Legacy of Spies, being led by Matthew MacFadyen as George Smiley, has started production and rounded out it cast

The Ink Factory has rounded out the supporting ensemble for its Chinese-language 'The Night Manager' series.

For more than half a century, film and television makers have been drawn to the novels of John le Carré. The 2016 serialisation of The Night Manager, soon to re-emerge as a co-production between Amaz...

I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve not read a single novel by John le Carré, or even seen any of the movies based on them. I know of them: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,

Nearly a decade after the Emmy-winning original series, their intelligence officers navigate a bleaker world in season two: “Forty years ago, people would write movies where the punchline was, ‘and th...

A new exhibition opens up the spy writer’s sprawling literary archive to shed light on his idiosyncratic creative process. Katie Rosseinsky explores how he brought George Smiley and co to life

Free exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford

The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him