Adam Sisman is the author of Boswell's Presumptuous Task, winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the biographer of John le Carre, A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Among his other works are two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.
'A completely fascinating and revelatory book, written with great sagacity, candour and judiciousness' - William Boyd, author Praise for John le Carre: The Biography: 'A perceptive and elegant interpreter of complex lives' - Jonathan Dimbleby 'The best biography of 2015 - a rare achievement that invites rereading' - Independent 'Compendious and compelling...Sisman is excellent' - New Statesman