The Pigeon Tunnel

Stories from My Life

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The Pigeon Tunnel

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: John le Carré

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'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.'

The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of nonfiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author's extraordinary engagement with the last half century.

The listener is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice.

In this astonishing work, we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of this country's greatest writers.

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"No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times." (Guardian)

"John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen." (Financial Times)

"When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré...they were a journey into the wider world.... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind." (Aung San Suu Kyi)

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I love John Le carré books and have read and listened to almost all of them and when I stumbled upon this book read by him it made my heart sing to hear him read his autobiography it is absolutely magnificently magical and the story is not like his others stories but is set in a way different to what he has written before I would highly recommend it and I would listen to it again!