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John le Carré to make rare public appearance to discuss new novel

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | 2:03 PM

Author will take part in An Evening with George Smiley at Royal Festival Hall to mark return of his most famous character

He first appeared in 1961 as a short, fat, quiet man whose bad clothes “hung about his squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad”.

But that unassuming bespectacled man, with his deep love of the lesser German poets, was far from ordinary; he was George Smiley, one of the greatest, cleverest spies in fiction.

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