Agent Running in the Field, the 87-year-old author’s 25th novel, will be set in London and published in October 2019John le Carré to tackle 'division and rage' of 2018 in new novelJohn le Carré is set to confront “the division and rage at the heart of our modern world” in a new novel set in London in 2018 that will be published next year. The novel, Le Carré’s 25th, will be published in October 2019. Mary Mount, the author’s publisher at Viking, said that the times called for writers like Le Carré. “In his plot and characterisation Le Carré is as thrilling as ever, and in the way he writes about our times he proves himself once again to be the greatest chronicler of our age,” she said. Tinker, tailor, writer, spy: the many lives of John le Carré, in his own words Read moreLe Carré published his first novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961.

Source: The Guardian December 10, 2018 12:34 UTC