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Sunday, 24 April 2011

Arnold Schwartzmann's designs on Deighton

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A book's cover is essential to its success or failure. The primary aim is to attract the reader, to offer a taste of what's inside, ...
Saturday, 23 April 2011

'It's all in the planning'... Deighton in the WSJ

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Len's popped up this week in the Wall Street Journal , in its Word Craft section to be exact, writing about his approach to planning a b...
Thursday, 7 April 2011

Lunch with Len .....

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I was pleased to have the opportunity today to have lunch with Len Deighton, his wife, and Edward Milward-Oliver, author of the indispensabl...
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Friday, 1 April 2011

None shall win prizes ....

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(c) Jonathan Player/Rex Interesting story in The Guardian this week concerning John Le Carré . He has been nominated for the Man Booker...
Sunday, 20 March 2011

The Spywriter & The Godfather

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Small snippet I noticed this morning, clearly as part of the PR around the re-release by Harper Collins of Len Deighton's French Cooking...
Friday, 18 March 2011

Anything to contribute?....

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A number of blog posts on the Deighton Dossier seem to attract a lot of traffic, with the numbers of readers posting comments increasing, al...
Thursday, 10 March 2011

Question: can the spy novel be art?

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Lawrence Durrell At the suggestion of blog reader and writer Craig Arthur from New Zealand, and with due credit to his friend and Lawren...
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Monday, 28 February 2011

The FT on The Ipcress File cover ...

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Funeral in Berlin (with the rare wrap-around showing Deighton with Michael Caine and Ian Fleming Very interesting article in today'...
Saturday, 26 February 2011

The reissues (12) - Spy Line

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After a hiatus, I'm returning to covering the 2010/2011 reissues by Harper Collins of all of Len Deighton's major novels - running m...

Who can you believe in the world of spy fiction?

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Christine Granville I - and a number of other commentators - have read with interest a story being reported by Guy Walters in this week...
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Some light reading for wartime....

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An eagle-eyed reader of this blog, Jeff Quest, spotted this interesting photographic essay  by photographer David Moore in Wired magazine. ...
Saturday, 19 February 2011

Deighton turns 82...

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The 18 February was Len Deighton's 82nd birthday - I'm sure readers of his books all over the world will wish to raise a glass..... ...
Saturday, 12 February 2011

Photoplay - a profile of Deighton from 1968

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Photoplay I've just managed to source a rare profile of Len Deighton from a 1968 Australian film magazine called Photoplay Film Month...
Monday, 31 January 2011

Sound of the Cimbalon - on the death of John Barry

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The Cimbalon is the twangy, Danubian-sounding harpsichord-type instrument which gave The Ipcress File its characteristic sound, most notabl...
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Friday, 14 January 2011

...Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief?

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Fascinating article in today's Guardian newspaper , looking back on the DVD boxset of the seminal BBC spy series  Tinker, Tailor, Soldie...
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