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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

MI:6 website covers Funeral in Berlin

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Our friends over at Bond fansite MI:6 have updated their review of the Harry Palmer film Funeral in Berlin . The website finds a number of ...

Swinging sixties on film - London's decade

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London really was swinging in the sixties - fashion, music, design, the arts, everything was expanding in technicolour contrast to the sligh...
Saturday, 26 September 2009

Ambiguity overcome - new additions to the Deighton Dossier main website

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Today's been an afternoon of autumn spring cleaning of the Deighton Dossier site, adding more information, cleaning up a few menu anoma...
Saturday, 19 September 2009

Well, it's definitely a biography

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The Penguin edition of Horse Under Water (Penguin book 2322) from 1965 contains a great idiosyncratic author biography of Len Deighton on i...
Saturday, 12 September 2009

Design news

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I've had some correspondence with noted British designer Arnold Schwartzman , friend of Len Deighton and co-author with him of Airshipwr...
Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Great quotes from Deighton's sixties zenith

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I've just got hold of two pristine copies of the Penguin first editions of Billion Dollar Brain and Funeral in Berlin . These are the fa...
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...