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  • The Oldie

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    Oct 20, 2021 3 minutes
    By John le Carré

    Viking £20

    Julian Lawndsley, notionally the protagonist of John le Carré’s last novel, arrives in a Suffolk seaside town to put aside his past in the City and start a highbrow bookshop.

    He is befriended, half against his will, by Edward, a charming Polish (immigrant is the wrong word for him) who is nursing a dying wife, a retired spy. Elsewhere, a senior spy, Stewart Proctor, is investigating

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