Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is a British writer and filmmaker.
After studying philosophy, sociology and politics at Cambridge,
he worked in the film industry before becoming an author.
After his debut, The Gone Away World, published in 2008,
he produced six more novels and a work of non-fiction.
He's the fourth son of David Cornwall, the great spy writer known by his pen name, John le Carré.
In 2021, after the death of his father,
he took the writer's role in bringing the final unpublished le Carré novel,
Silverview, to publication.
The following year, he was called upon to do the final necessary work on A Private Spy,
the collected edition of his father's letters, after his older brother,
Tim Cornwall, who was editing the work, sadly died.
His latest novel, Carla's Choice returns to Le Carre's most enduring creations,
the intelligence agency named The Circus and its spy, George Smiley.
Set in 1963,
the story sees a retired Smiley return to Cold War counterintelligence to find a missing Hungarian émigré and a potential KGB asset.
Nick Harkaway, or should I call you Nick?
Cornwall, Nick Le Carre, Aidan Truen.