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Monday, 31 August 2009

Like The Professionals with submarines: Lindsay Shonteff's Spy Story film

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I've just found online two websites created in tribute to the late film director Lindsay Shonteff, who died in 2006. The first is a gen...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Wall of Books

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Interesting article in today's Guardian newspaper highlighting the top ten books about the Berlin Wall, the epicentre of so much Cold W...
Saturday, 22 August 2009

Tenuous cricket connections

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Fascinating days cricket at the Oval yesterday saw England, after an apparently shaky start, demolish the Australians for 160 leaving them i...
Friday, 14 August 2009

The reissues (4) - Bomber

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The final book in the collection of four recently re-issued Deighton novels is - arguably - one of his greatest. Bomber . Certainly, in the ...
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Thursday, 13 August 2009

No smoke without fire? QT talks GS&M

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Quentin Tarantino wants to re-make Game, Set and Match? That's what he's told the media in the UK today, according to the Press Asso...
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The reissues (3) - XPD

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Today's blogpost covers the third reissue XPD , originally published in 1982. It's one I'm actually reading right now, having no...
Wednesday, 12 August 2009

The reissues (2) - Goodbye Mickey Mouse

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The second of the four recently re-issued novels I want to look at today is Goodbye Mickey Mouse , Deighton's fourteenth novel first pu...
Tuesday, 11 August 2009

The reissues - new insights into the writing process - SS-GB

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As set out the last blog entry, at the end of May Len Deighton's publishers Harper Collins re-issued the first four books from his catal...
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Monday, 10 August 2009

News on Deighton reissues

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Word from my editorial contact at Len Deighton's publishers, Harper Collins, is that following the initial release of the first four rev...
Monday, 3 August 2009

Insights into the Cold War behind the Iron Curtain

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A couple of interesting items I've spotted on the Internet today. Firstly, the BBC's outgoing Washington correspondent Matt Frei re...
Friday, 31 July 2009

The lure of rarity

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Recently took a trip to Leicester to see James Pickard, who was selling a collection of Deighton items from one of the world's leading c...
Saturday, 25 July 2009

Radio 4 looks at the spy world

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There's a new programme on BBC Radio 4 (which should be available to listen online for a week thereafter on the BBC's iPlayer facil...
Sunday, 19 July 2009

New additions to the Deighton Dossier

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I've been fortunate enough to obtain copies of some really interesting elements from Deighton's design career in the fifties when, l...
Sunday, 5 July 2009

Harry Palmer featured on great new spy fiction blog

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This month, Armstrong Sabian - creator of the Mister 8 blog of spy film and fiction - is doing a number of blogs about Len Deighton's ...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009

The death of Karl Malden

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Reported today, the death at 97 of actor Karl Malden, star of numerous Hollywood films and - in this context - the character of Leo Newbegin...