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Sunday, 26 December 2010

Weird internet video #54...

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Doing a bit of Boxing Day surfing of the Internet, as you do, I came across this video posted on YouTube: What to make of it? It'...
Saturday, 27 November 2010

Do a lot of people know this? Caine on Palmer....

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(c) Hodder & Stoughton 2010 I've recently purchased a copy of Michael Caine's new biography, The Elephant to Hollywood  (the ...
Sunday, 14 November 2010

The reissues (11) - Spy Hook

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Spy Hook - photo (c) Harper Collins After a blogging hiatus of a few weeks, I'm pleased to get back to blogging about the world of L...
Monday, 1 November 2010

Caution: Slow blogging

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Readers to the blog will notice that posting's been a little slow of late. This is mostly due to my purchasing a new home and dealing wi...
Friday, 15 October 2010

New competition - win a first edition of Mike Ripley's Angels Unaware

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Author Mike Ripley - creator of the award-winning crime series starring detective Ray Angel - is known to this blog through his books and hi...
Saturday, 2 October 2010

Len's Shots Mag appreciation of Ray Hawkey

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Well done to author Mike Ripley who's arranged for his friend Len Deighton to pen a short blog post on the late Ray Hawkey in the lates...
Saturday, 25 September 2010

Monday - CBC documentary on Len Deighton

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Earlier this year I spent a day with radio producer Philip Coulter from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Ideas programme, a long...
Saturday, 18 September 2010

Four eyes better than two

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Interesting little article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday . The journalist - with the delightfully exotic name of Henry de Quetteville - o...
Saturday, 11 September 2010

Michael Caine on the erroneous return of Harry Palmer

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(c) Ian Derry Interesting article in the Daily Mail this weekend - a long career retrospective interview with 78-year-old Michael Caine ...
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Friday, 10 September 2010

Bits and pieces for your delectation

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Every once in a while browsing the Interweb I stumble upon articles referencing Len Deighton and the related world of spy espionage. Sometim...
Thursday, 2 September 2010

Le Carre on Philby

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(c) Paul Calver for Sunday Telegraph I've read online today an interesting interview with David Cornwall - better known by his litera...
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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...