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Saturday, 17 September 2011

A film, you say? Heralding a return to the public consciousness of the spy novel? That's popular? Creating myriad articles in international media? One of Le Carré's novels? No, sorry, haven't heard anything

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With Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy now out in the cinema - and I look forward to seeing it very soon - the slew of positive media coverage...
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Thursday, 15 September 2011

The Top 5 Cold War-era spy thrillers...

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...according to the Digital Spy website . Do you agree? Not bad, as a starter for ten. But are they in the right order?
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Saturday, 10 September 2011

More Le Carré carry-on in the Telegraph

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A very interesting article in today's Daily Telegraph by Toby Clements, who seeks the source of the current upsurge in interest in John ...
Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Smiley culture

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It's official. The world has had enough of the war on terror and the war in Libya: everyone's nostalgic for the Cold War. Well, judg...
Sunday, 28 August 2011

Desert island discovery

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Through regular blog correspondent Bryan Graham , I've uncovered the list of tunes chosen by Len Deighton for his appearance on Desert...
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Friday, 19 August 2011

Just Len...

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Bang! Bang! I have eagle-eyed reader of this blog Bryan Graham to thank for spotting this article on The Guardian's website.  Len ...
Friday, 12 August 2011

Concrete wall, iron curtain - Berliner Mauer, 50 years on

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It would get bigger. Fifty years ago, as Deighton writes in Berlin Game , the first people to know anything was wrong were the cab dri...
Saturday, 6 August 2011

Holy Trinity

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It's almost Stasi-like, the way Amazon.com watches my buying habits and knows what I like. I shouldn't listen to it, but it frequent...
Saturday, 30 July 2011

The reissues (13) - Faith

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Faith reissue with new cover by Arnold Schwartzman The Harper Collins Deighton reissue production line remains in full flow. With Faith ...
Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Room for one more?...

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It's difficult to disagree with The Independent's choice of the top 10 spy novels : Riddle of the Sands, Thirty-Nine Steps, Spy Who ...

Where's the blu-tack again?.....

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.... is the frequent call in houses around the world when someone has a new poster. And, invariably, it's right at the back of the kitch...
Friday, 8 July 2011

Soho Spaghetti

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I was a little late on this one, but last week saw the death of Mario Cassandro, London restaurateur and arguably a man who changed the Brit...

A pocket full of spy....

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Is it possible to have such a thing as negative innovation? Retro-creativity? Backward-looking foresight? In publishing, perhaps so. The f...
Thursday, 30 June 2011

By George .... they've only gone and done it.

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Different actor, same spy Produce a re-make of a much-loved TV series that is, which, by the looks of it, doesn't make you want to t...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Well, that's the holiday reading sorted ....

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Thanks to the good folks of the Harper Collins publicity department, I have received in the post the latest paperback reissues of Len Deight...