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Sunday, 9 June 2024

To the collector, the spoils

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Last month I explored the Firsts Rare Book Fare  in London's Saatchi Gallery. I went with a good friend of mine who - as well as being a...
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Friday, 8 December 2023

Harry Palmer on the Town

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Recently I found online - after searching for it for over ten years - a copy of Town Magazine from July 1966, with a great feature written...
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Monday, 21 August 2023

"Sprechen Sie Deutsch, English?"

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I have recently picked up a very rare and interesting book - the German first hardback edition of The IPCRESS File . I've never seen a c...
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Saturday, 29 July 2023

The radical act of having a book on your shelf

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The inevitable snowflake! Any collector of first edition or out-of-print books might think their hobby is immune to the ravages of the "...
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Friday, 3 March 2023

Reading versus listening

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Berlin Game audiobook on cassette, read by Paul Daneman I was recently contacted by email from a reader asking if I knew anything about the ...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2022

A different kind of Dossier: the Jackdaw 'JFK Assassination' special

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An email conversation with a fellow collector recent alighted upon the topic of "The Assassination of President Kennedy", the fold...
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Friday, 24 June 2022

The art of Shirley Deighton

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A recent comment on this blog asked for some examples of the work of Shirley Deighton (nee Thompson), the artist and illustrator (Deighton ...
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Sunday, 12 June 2022

Never a cross word

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The crossword competition laid in the first edition Earlier this month, the Guardian's crossword blog writer wrote a nice little piece a...
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Sunday, 15 May 2022

It's all in the detail

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Recently I purchased three original marketing photographs produced by Jonathan Cape's marketing team for the 1970 launch of the first ed...
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Saturday, 19 March 2022

The Ipcress File tv series - the verdict

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  Dalby, Harry and Jean ready for action Well, after months - and I mean months - of hype and pre-publicity, the new tv adaptation of Len De...
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Thursday, 3 March 2022

The Ipcress File TV series premiering 6 March

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This Sunday in the UK - and in many of the international TV markets to which the rights have been sold - the new adaptation of The Ipcress F...
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Saturday, 19 February 2022

Happy 93rd Birthday, Len

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 ... for yesterday (I forgot to post this up yesterday!). On 18 February, Len Deighton celebrated his 93rd birthday, having been born in Lo...
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Monday, 24 January 2022

ITV releases teaser trailer for new Ipcress File series

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 UK commercial broadcaster ITV has released the first teaser trailer for the new TV series of The Ipcress File, which will be broadcast in t...
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Thursday, 23 December 2021

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Deighton Dossier readers

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'"Cheer up, Werner. It will soon be Christmas," I said.' Bernard Samson to Werner Volkmann, first line, Chapter 1, Mexico ...
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Thursday, 7 October 2021

Deighton up for Southwark Blue Plaque

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View over Southwark As an author, Len Deighton has often eschewed literary prizes and honours, believing his work speaks for itself. But as ...
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