Friday essay: the secret lives of Ian Fleming and John Le Carré – the spymasters shaped by a lack of parental love
- Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney
In 2022, writer Suleika Dawson published an intimate, refreshingly candid first-hand account of her passionate extramarital affair with David Cornwell – who worked as an intelligence agent for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and early 1960s, and wrote spy novels using the pseudonym John...