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Spies, wrote Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, has 'a classic English theme: the bittersweet adventure from childhood, recollected in old age, in which the mysterious doings of the grown-ups were trespassed on and misinterpreted'. Books as diverse as Great Expectations, The Go-Between and Atonement fall into this category. Spies, first published in 2002, is a worthy addition to the list and shares many of the same preoccupations as these novels; it is interested in memory, identity, loss of innocence and perception. It is, in other words, a book about how we make sense of the world.

David Isaacs studied English at Cambridge. Subsequently, he has worked as an editor both at Short Books and at Connell Guides. He has written five of our Short Guides - to Michael Frayn's Spies, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and forthcoming guide to John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman. He is currently doing a PhD at UCL on self-doubt and provisionality in late 20th century/early 21st century literature.