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Tuesday, 14 June 2011

All in the detail - Gordon Crabb's covers for Len Deighton

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I recently received from Len Deighton a short email containing nine pictures of artwork. More precisely, original cover artworks by artist G...
Friday, 3 June 2011

Michael Caine and Len Deighton talk Harry Palmer

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"At the time I wrote The Ipcress File, the English were even less interested in food than they are now. Any man who was able to cook...
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Saturday, 21 May 2011

Reissues go States-side

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News today of a deal between Harper Collins and Sterling Partners to reissue most of Len Deighton's books in new editions in the US ma...
Monday, 16 May 2011

Q&A with Len Deighton - part three

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Following yesterday's second blog posting, below is the third and final part of the exclusive Deighton Dossier Q&A with author Len D...
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Sunday, 15 May 2011

Q&A with Len Deighton - part two

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Part one of the Deighton Dossier's exclusive Q&A chat with Len Deighton was yesterday . Now, in part two of the interview below, fin...
Saturday, 14 May 2011

Exclusive to the Deighton Dossier: Q&A with Len Deighton

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“I didn’t want simplicity. I didn’t want a spot-lit singer on a bare stage. I wanted an opera.” Len Deighton, on the Game, Set & Matc...
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Friday, 6 May 2011

A touch of ennui

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Nick Jones' interesting book-based blog Existential Ennui (great title) has this week been looking at Len Deighton's 'Harry Pal...
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'...