George Smiley Goes to America: Nick Harkaway on The Taper Man
Smiley goes to America. Roy Bland goes to Leningrad. And Nick Harkaway goes back inside his father's Circus. In Paul Burke's first interview as Spybrary's Head of Fiction, he sits down with Nick Harka...
4 Nov 1h 4min
Crime Fiction Legend Sara Paretsky Takes on the Spy Thriller with Bad Company
Sara Paretsky, legendary creator of V.I. Warshawski, joins me on the Spybrary Spy Podcast to talk about Bad Company — her new spy thriller featuring retired CIA officer Lily, a woman who discovers tha...
21 Okt 41min
The Ultimate Spy Movie & TV Guide — Inside Spies on Screen with Paul Burke
Paul Burke joins Spybrary hosts Shane Whaley and Michael Huie to discuss his new book, Spies on Screen, an ambitious guide to more than 900 spy films and television series. From James Bond and John le...
7 Okt 1h
William Boyd on the Appeal of Spy Fiction and Creating Gabriel Dax
What makes a great spy novel? For William Boyd, it is complexity, uncertainty and that irresistible feeling that, as a reader, you are constantly trying to work out who can be trusted. In this SPOILE...
29 Sep 41min
CIA vs MI6: David McCloskey Goes Inside London Station
What if the CIA and MI6 stopped behaving like allies—and started spying on each other? David McCloskey joins Tim Shipman to discuss London Station, his fifth spy novel, and the real intelligence relat...
23 Sep 44min
Lies, Spies and Suspense: Inside Traitors with Robert B. McCaw
A propulsive, high-stakes thriller—Robert McCaw delivers a gripping tale of espionage, betrayal, and deception amid the race to expose Russian moles at the highest levels of the US government. Tense, ...
10 Sep 40min
From Bourne to le Carré: Jinwoo Park on The Oxford Soju Club
In this episode of Spybrary, host Matthew Hurst talks with author Jinwoo Park about his debut novel, The Oxford Soju Club. The book centres on North Korean spies and their Korean American adversarie...
1 Sep 37min
Sweden's Secret Cold War Spies: Dead Drops, Hidden Cells and the Stay Behinds
Cold War Spies Series with Shane Whaley For decades, Sweden presented itself as neutral and determined to remain outside the Cold War struggle between East and West. But behind that public image, th...
26 Aug 1h 9min
