One Final Le Carré in View

This is splendid news! From The Bookseller:

Viking will publish a “superb and fitting” final full-length novel by John le Carré, Silverview, this autumn. The book will be le Carré's 26th novel, and is released on 14th October, in the week that would have marked le Carré’s 90th birthday.

Le Carré had been working on the book alongside his last two novels, A Legacy of Spies and Agent Running in the Field, both published by Viking. It was le Carré’s wish that his children look after his literary legacy and they, along with an archivist, are currently cataloguing his archive of unpublished work. Silverview was the only complete, full-length, novel left unpublished at the time of his death.

Nick Cornwell, John le Carré’s youngest son and a novelist who writes under the pen name Nick Harkaway, said: “This is the authentic le Carré, telling one more story. The book is fraught, forensic, lyrical, and fierce, at long last searching the soul of the modern Secret Intelligence Service itself. It’s a superb and fitting final novel.”

The piece goes on to quote Mary Mount, le Carré’s publisher at Viking, calling Silverview “mesmerizing. … Beautifully constructed and so acute on the forces—love, loyalty, duty, guilt—that motivate us. It was so thrilling, and very moving, to hear, in these pages, le Carré’s inimitable voice speak once again.”

Le Carré, you will recall, died last December at age 89.