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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Heirs to Deighton? (2) - Rod Brammer

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With each generation there come onto the scene writers in any genre of fiction who seek to mark out their own literary literary, take the ge...
Sunday, 25 October 2009

Der Mauerfall/The Berlin Wall's fall - a competition

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" Like a skewer through a shish kebab " was how Len Deighton described the Berlin Wall in Berlin Game , bisecting the city and div...
Saturday, 24 October 2009

The reissues (5) - The Ipcress File

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As previously mentioned on this blog, Harper Collins is drip feeding onto the book market a steady series of re-issues of all of Len Deighto...
Thursday, 22 October 2009

Interesting video series on Guardian Unlimited

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The Guardian newspaper's website Guardian Unlimited has been running an interesting series of interviews and videos about the Berlin Wa...
Monday, 19 October 2009

Behind the books - blog series on the 25th anniversary editions (2)

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This blog continues my efforts to mine some of the hidden nuggets of insight and intelligence provided by Len Deighton in his forewords to t...
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Sunday, 18 October 2009

Competition, finally? Well, not quite...

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I've come across this website on the Internet. It purports to be a fansite about Len Deighton. It has very little original content in i...

Spy Fiction and Spy Fact - the connections

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Interesting article in The Times from May 2009 by friend of this blog Jeremy Duns , who has re-tweeted about it (?!). He demonstrates that ...
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Behind the books - blog series on the 25th anniversary editions (1)

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Recently I managed to get hold of a full set of all nineteen Silver Jubilee paperback limited editions of all of Deighton's fiction boo...
Saturday, 17 October 2009

Spooked?

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I draw readers' attention to an article in today's FT newspaper by TV producer John Lloyd about the continuing appeal of the BBC One...
Monday, 12 October 2009

The Gehlen Networks - New spies for old

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One theme which crops up from time to time in Deighton's works - in the Game, Set and Match novels with the Bernard Samson character, i...

Spies on celluloid

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I missed this article in The Independent from a couple of weeks ago which is a rather fun review of the British spy film, and why the genre...
Saturday, 10 October 2009

Not quite a Knighthood, but an honour nonetheless...

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I have clearly "arrived" in the world of bloggers who write about spy fiction and spy movie culture. David Foster, owner of the Pe...
Saturday, 3 October 2009

Enter now! Mister 8's cool new competition

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Blogger extraordinaire and connoisseur of the design aesthetic and the many tropes in espionage storytelling Armstrong Sabian - he of the f...

New insights into the cloak-and-dagger world of British espionage

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A big PR push this weekend for a new book about spying which includes the fantastic revelation that Britain's own secret service once ke...
Thursday, 1 October 2009

The influence of the Wall on German literature

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Journalist Anne McElvoy - who studied in East Germany and served as a reporter there, and witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall from the E...