The English translation of Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century, by acclaimed Russian author Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud, has become one of the best selling books on Amazon.

6.30pm, Saturday 28 May, Calvert 22
Sergei Kostin, Russia’s definitive spy writer and a charmingly witty speaker, will talk on the double life of espionage in film and in history - are spies traitors or idealistic heroes?