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Friday, 29 May 2009

Blog of note

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Anyone reading this blog is recommended to visit Permission to Kill , David Foster's site about all things espionage in popular culture,...
Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Len Deighton speaks

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Yesterday morning at 1130h on Radio 4 we heard the first public comments from Len Deighton for quite a while, on the programme The Deighton ...
Sunday, 24 May 2009

Updates to the Deighton Dossier website

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I've now added a page to the main Deighton Dossier website - in the section called 'The Rest' - about a piece of music I came a...
Sunday, 17 May 2009

Len Deighton news round-up

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Jeremy Duns - whose debut novel Free Agent I'm reading at the moment - has an article in The Sunday Times today in which he recounts h...
Saturday, 9 May 2009

Action Cook Book Reissued

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Just dropped through my letter box is my copy of the newly re-issued Action Cook Book by Len Deighton, arguably one of the most influential...
Sunday, 3 May 2009

The turning point of 1989

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Just been reading an excellent article in today's Sunday Times by Brian Moynahan which looks back on the momentous year of 1989. he mak...
Saturday, 2 May 2009

A man who can

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A very interesting trip for me to Leicester to see James Pickard , book dealer and expert in all things Deighton, Fleming and Le Carre (he w...
Sunday, 26 April 2009

Can Deighton help the microwave generation?

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Interesting new article here in The Guardian by its new columnist Rachel Cooke, reminiscing about Len Deighton's Action Cook Book . Thi...
Saturday, 25 April 2009

Saving the good old British thriller?

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A new group of British authors has been formed to save the classic British thriller from what it calls the 'production line' of mode...
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Monday, 13 April 2009

The Deighton Dossier - now new and improved

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The new, improved, version 2.0 Deighton Dossier website is now loaded up here , at the usual url. Tell me what you think of it. There are lo...
Sunday, 12 April 2009

Is Harry Palmer coming back?

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I've just found this news item popped up on MTV's website. Sir Michael Caine has indicated that he thinks young(ish) British actor ...
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Saturday, 11 April 2009

Good news for Harry Palmer fans

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On 20 April there is a release of a double box set of the two final Harry Palmer films starring Michael Caine: Bullet to Beijing and Midnig...
Wednesday, 8 April 2009

New Deighton book....well, almost

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Click here to find out more about a new book by Irish author Brendan Lynch, called Yesterday We Were in America , which highlights the tale...
Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Driving Len Deighton

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I've just managed to get hold of a Sunday Times magazine from April 14 1963 featuring an article by Len Deighton on Supercar Motoring (...
Monday, 30 March 2009

Deighton returns to the airwaves...and the bookshelves

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The 80th birthday of thriller writer Len Deighton is to be commemorated in a radio programme to be broadcast on Radio 4 on 26 May, I've ...