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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
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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...

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