Join us for a thrilling evening with Nick Harkaway & Mick Herron in conversation at French French Protestant Church

Join us for a thrilling evening with Nick Harkaway (Karla’s Choice and The Taper Man) & Mick Herron (Slow Horses) in conversation about the writing of John le Carré's Circus at French Protestant Church.

We are delighted to be joined by best-selling authors (and friends) Nick Harkawayand Mick Herron as we celebrate the publication of The Taper Man, Nick Harkaway'slatest novel. A gripping return to the shadow world of John le Carré's Circus. Elegant, tense and morally intricate, it is an extraordinary and timely continuation of one of literature's greatest espionage legacies and a landmark work of modern spy fiction. Mick Herron is not only the author of the unmissable Slough House Thriller series (on which Apple TV’s Slow Horses is based) as well as the recently adapted Down Cemetery Road, but also a self-described le Carré fan. Expect an incredible evening of conversation, as well as the opportunity to meet Nick and get your copy of The Taper Man signed.

Nick Harkaway is the author of eight novels, including: The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon, Titanium Noir and Karla’s Choice. He is the son of John le Carré, and has a unique insight into his father’s work. The Guardian writes of Harkaway that ‘his great gift as a novelist is to merge the pace, wit and clarity of the best “popular” literature with the ambition, complexity and irony of the so-called “literary novel” – a rare combination which le Carré himself also achieved.’ He lives in London with his wife and two children

Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the 9 Slough House thrillers, the most recent of which, Clown Town was published in 2025 and went straight onto the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller charts. They have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning Apple TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoë Boehm series, also now adapted for Apple TV and starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

Please Note: The Book & Ticket option includes a copy of The Taper Man to be collected on the night.

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