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The Necks (TRAVEL) are on the HpMini and I'm back, in earnest, to The Work – though with the added fuckyouness of still being vertical after my greatest fear (my grandfather's death and funeral) came and went: for the first time in my life, I genuinely feel that I don't have a thing to prove; I simply get to be me – whomever that is – though I would give anything to still have him here. But that’s not how life works.

"Smiley is woven into my life…"

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‘Smiley is woven into my life,” said Harkaway. “Tinker Tailor was written in the two years after I was born and I grew up with the evolution of the Circus, so this is a deeply personal journey for me, and of course it’s a journey which has to feel right to the le Carré audience. It also seems as if we need the Smiley stories back now because they ask us the questions of the moment: what compassion do we owe to one another as human beings, and at what point does that compassion become more important than nation, law or duty?”

Love Nick Harkaway's work, GNOMON especially. Can't wait to see what he does with his dad's toybox.