Bringing along Baby: Tinker Tailor Babble and Wail on the big screen
In the first of a new occasional series, Esther Walker and her daughter Kitty offer a view from parent-and-baby cinema screenings – this time at Hampstead's Everyman
Will Bond 23 be titled Skyfall?
Ben Child: A company linked to Sony Pictures is reportedly buying up URLs with Skyfall in the title – does this mean what we think it does?
James Patterson | No 6
The best-selling thriller writer has 12 novels out this year alone
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante – review
Alice LaPlante's unforgettable debut novel is a murder mystery with the most unreliable of narrators: a suspect suffering from Alzheimer's, writes Alison Flood
The Fear Index by Robert Harris – review
Emmanuel Roman is intrigued by the hi-tech banking methods imagined in Robert Harris's latest work
Le Carré brands spy drama Spooks ‘crap’
Author and former British agent says 'if you have lived in that world, you know that it is stupid'
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy review – brilliant study of the 1970s spy game
The new adaptation of John le Carré's novel is a uncompromisingly cerebral and austere account of disenchantment and tension
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: how the costumes were tailored to suit the part
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran tells Akin Ojumu how she worked out that the spies of Tinker Tailor… probably shopped in London's West End
Gary Oldman: ‘The secret of playing George Smiley was in finding the silhouette of a spy’
A compelling performance by Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees a return to form by an actor best known recently for franchise blockbusters, writes Tim Lewis
The real-life spies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Neal Ascherson, the Observer's correspondent in eastern Europe in the 1960s, on the furtive world of the cold war spies
Who are the master spy novelists?
Robert McCrum: The British espionage adventure is a century-old tradition, but which are the best examples?
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – review
Director Tomas Alfredson's marvellously chill adaptation of John Le Carré's cold war thriller features a delicate performance from Gary Oldman along with a first-rate supporting cast, writes Xan Brooks
Prophecy by SJ Parris – review
SJ Parris's second Tudor thriller featuring heretic monk-turned-detective Giordano Bruno has a similar strike-rate to the work of CJ Sansom, writes Sophia Martelli
Robert Harris to adapt his novel The Fear Index for the screen
Novelist to write screenplay for financial crisis thriller, with The Bourne Ultimatum's Paul Greengrass tipped to direct
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin – review
Ira Levin's chilling tale about a Nazi-hunter's pursuit of Josef Mengele makes interesting reading in the light of genetic advances, writes Sophia Martelli