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Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Raymond Hawkey obituaries

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(c) TOPFOTO Two obituaries for the late Raymond Hawkey - whose death was covered last week on this blog and referenced elsewhere across t...
Thursday, 26 August 2010

More twists than a bag of pretzels - Jeremy Duns' Free Country

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Part two of the Paul Dark trilogy Paul Dark - double agent and cold-hearted killer - is most definitely back. Jeremy Duns' sixties sp...
Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Kiss me, then Kill me! New exhibition on the art of Cold War espionage fiction

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Poster for the new exhibition A new exhibition is opening in Hertfordshire this week looking at the aesthetics of design in the Cold War...
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Oh! What a Lovely Start to a Film

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Raymond Hawkey designed the opening titles to the 1969 Bryan Duffy and Richard Attenborough produced film (Deighton took his name off the pr...

Raymond Hawkey - a personal note from Edward Milward-Oliver

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Following yesterday's announcement of the death of Raymond Hawkey, Deighton's biographer Edward Milward-Oliver - also a friend of Ha...
Monday, 23 August 2010

Raymond Hawkey - designer of iconic Ipcress File front cover - passes away

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I've been advised by Deighton's biographer and friend Edward Milward-Oliver of the sad passing of graphic artist and author Raymond ...
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010

From the BBC archives - Deighton and Bragg

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Thanks to eagle-eyed blog reader Nick Elliott I've come across a little gem hidden away in the dark recesses of the BBC's website, i...
Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Them communists was quite handy with the ball, you know.

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Dukla Prague away-kit Interesting little snippet  from this weekend's Observer newspaper, reviewing a new biography of former Spurs m...
Saturday, 14 August 2010

Another list ....

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Sometimes, if you're an editor stuck for content, there's nothing easier than slipping in a 'top twenty', a 'best of...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Notching up the thrill rating

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More good new from Mike Ripley, author and contributor of the 'Shot in the Dark' section of the excellent online Shots Magazine , w...
Monday, 9 August 2010

The Defector by Daniel Silva - review

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The good folks of Penguin recently sent me the two latest books from US author Daniel Silva telling the story of Gabriel Allon : Israeli s...
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Saturday, 7 August 2010

Party time, 'sixties-style

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Good Housekeeping, June 1963 Good Housekeeping isn't the natural home of the novelist. But when you're Len Deighton, and it'...
Sunday, 1 August 2010

Hundred Dollar Brain ... or maybe less?

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Clicking through YouTube recently I did a search under "Len Deighton" to see what might come up ... and there was plenty there. On...
Friday, 23 July 2010

The reissues (10) - Berlin Game

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Inspired by the recent newspaper headlines about the activities of (rather poor) Russian sleeper agents in the US, I have started to read ag...
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Old habits die hard: Russia still following the KGB playbook?

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Ironically enough, I had started reading again Len Deighton's Berlin Game,  which is nothing if not full of example after example of the...
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