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Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Competition - win a Top Notch thriller

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Author Mike Ripley - who's a keen reader of this blog - has made it his own one-man mission to resuscitate, rescue and re-purpose Bri...
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Monday, 28 November 2011

Ken Russell, RIP

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British film director Ken Russell died over the weekend, after a long illness. He was 84 years old. Famous for films like Women in Love ...
Friday, 25 November 2011

The reissues (15) - Charity

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After nine books (if you exclude  Winter ), with Charity Len Deighton brought the curtain down on - according to The Times - "one o...
Monday, 21 November 2011

Well, that's annoying ...

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Where are all our postings? I've just discovered that the Deighton Dossier online forum - established for over two years and with 2...
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Sunday, 20 November 2011

The reissues (14) - Hope

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(c) Harper Collins After a gap of a few months (and a delivery of another pack of four review copies) I want to pick up on the coverage ...
Friday, 18 November 2011

Shelf life ....

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On the shelf A visit to my local Waterstones recently: Harper Collins' reissues of Len's books. All good.
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Monday, 14 November 2011

In the trenches of public opinion ...

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Very interesting article on the BBC website today concerning Oh! What a Lovely War , the Joan Littlewood stage show about the First World ...
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Friday, 11 November 2011

War in real time ....

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Len Deighton's Bomber is being broadcast this afternoon on BBC Radio 4 Extra, in real time, according to the BBC's Blog, to mark ...
Thursday, 10 November 2011

Tracking down Bernard Samson ....

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On my last trip to Berlin one of the things I did was to spend a little time tracking down and photographing the locations of some of the ke...
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Monday, 7 November 2011

Of spies and science fiction ...

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A Neuromancer, hard at work William Gibson, creator of some of the greatest modern science fiction stories and characters, is something ...
Sunday, 16 October 2011

Relax in your favourite armchair and read a Romantic story ...

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Is Harry Palmer a Romantic hero? A Romantic with a capital 'R', a part of the literary tradition of Rousseau and Wordsworth? W...
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Saturday, 8 October 2011

Old-school cuisine ... at a pinch!

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(c) Teri Pengilley Instant whip was always a handful to whisk and you never got it completely smooth, a residue of sickly powder laying ...
Sunday, 2 October 2011

In the lair of the Wolf - understanding the Stasi's top spymaster

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When you're a spy, how do you measure success? In the case of Markus Wolf, the chief of the East German foreign intelligence service t...
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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