description: 'A beautifully accomplished, richly nostalgic novel about supposed second-world-war espionage seen through the eyes of a young boy' Sunday Times
language: English
title: Spies
titlecomplete: Spies
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Mystery, British Literature, School, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 5892
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks