Tag Archives: #Greene

The Lost Leader

Posted on February 22, 2019 in the Uncategorized category

I am thinking Brexit- or not. In moments of doubt and darkness, I find myself not for the first time rereading  Graham Greene, a fellow Catholic who struggled throughout his life with no small number of  existential and political crises of his  own, and yet still managed to draw sufficient creative inspiration and faith in God and humanity as an author and journalist. In a review of   Postscripts published in the Spectator on the 13th December 1940, Greene paid tribute to the way the novelist J.B. Priestley’s broadcasts lifted the …

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John le Carré & Graham Greene

Posted on December 19, 2015 in the Book Reviews, Journalism category

Review of Adam Sisman’s Biography of John le Carré pubilshed in The Tablet 17 December 2015 As admirers of Graham Greene will know, espionage can provide the context for exceptional novels. Few living writers have learned that lesson as well as David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré. Le Carré, like Greene, drew from his own experience in the intelligence servies to produce some of his best work: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, relatively early on in his writing career, and …

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