MI6

A theatre website calls this a witty and slightly surreal comedy. Three elderly women living in a quiet corner of Hertfordshire enjoy reminiscing about their adventurous pasts working for the secret service during the second...

It covers Spark's formative years and her career up to the point of her first literary breakthrough, but it reveals little that was not known before. Its precise and charmingly evocative memories of Edinburgh almost...

Julia's husband, Philip, has died in mysterious circumstances in Soviet Central Asia (possibly Afghanistan), a place of stray bullets and booby-traps, while on a mission for the British Intelligence Service (a branch of the...

This is also a state-of-England novel, set in a modern Britain which is both both glitzy and frightening. Indeed, the level of looming threat in the story, both explicit and inexplicit, makes it quite hard...

This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

An English novelist of exceptional energy, Graham Greene built a career spanning a dozen genres—most notably more than twenty novels or thrillers, as well as short stories, film reviews, travel books, plays, screenplays, and autobiography...

MS began on a top-secret job: writing anti-Nazi propaganda for MI6 , the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office .

GG 's friends spanned the political spectrum. He was a friend of the famously Communist actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin , but also of powerful Conservatives like the Tory MP Victor Cazalet . Later in...

EJ writes warmly of both her brothers in her memoirs, but sources such as obituaries are curiously silent about them. Her next brother, Romilly James Heald Jenkins , her junior by less than sixteen months...

Back in England, Greene continued work for the Iberian department of the Secret Intelligence Service for most of the war, monitoring espionage which was carried out in Gibraltar, Lisbon, Madrid, and Tangier—all cities which were...