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David V.S. West was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he took a B.A. in Engineering Science. During a career in engineering and project management he was commissioned by Gower Publishing to write a book on Project Sponsorship. This led him to study creative writing with the Open University, and a new career as a writer. He lives in Wiltshire.

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At Long Last I read Smiley’s People forty years ago. I read A Legacy of Spies last year. I have finally read the first book in the George Smiley series, and honestly can’t say which I prefer. It would be like choosing a favourite child. They are all e ...more
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A Legacy of Spies was Le Carré’s third from last book. Agent Running in the field followed it in 2019, and Silverview in 2021. John Le Carré was the pen name of David Cornwell, who died in 2020, in Truro, aged 89. Fortunately he left us a wonderful l ...more
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In my opinion C.J. Sansom must be the greatest writer of historical crime fiction alive. I still have several of the Shardlake books left to read, but Revelation is my favourite so far.
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