The Secret Pilgrim David Dickinson has written a novel which

has written a novel which 'may well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times'

why does one death matter

DC Cooper and his tough boss DS Fry suspect it is only a matter of time before another victim is found

and the human experience of place

Can we ever really identify them

The Secret Pilgrim David Dickinson has written a novel whichThe Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it