The Pigeon Tunnel

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• simonsarris · Oct 11, 2023 · Recommends

  …the best audiobook performances I have ever listened to). So wildly different to have them back-to-back. It made me appreciate Le Carre all the more. Speaking of audiobooks, Le Carre's own memoir The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life is read by himself and is a must-listen if you like his books. To hear him tell his own tales, with his own accents for the people in his life, definitely one of the cases where…

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• simonsarris · Dec 14, 2020 · Recommends

  His autobiography, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life is very good, and an excellent audiobook because it is read by him, recounting his own memories and doing his own accents of other people he once knew. The book is a little more…

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• jack_riminton · Dec 14, 2020 · Recommends

  If you've not read The Pigeon Tunnel you definitely should, its largely based around his father's exploits https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/08/the-pigeon-tun...

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• _whiteCaps_ · Dec 12, 2022 · Mentions

  I had an odd path to reading Le Carre novels - I first read The Pigeon Tunnel, his autobiography. After that I decided to read all of his novels... and then after the surprise ending in The English Patient, I told my partner I was done with them. I'd guess they're about 50% unhappy…

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• lainga · Mar 22, 2024 · Mentions

  Le Carré said this in the interview about his life (The Pigeon Tunnel): “At a certain age, you want the answer. You want the rolled up parchment in the inmost room that tells you who runs your lives and why. The trouble is that by then, you’re the very people who know…

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