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Sunday, 23 June 2013

A note for any collectors out there ....

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A conversation this afternoon with friend and book dealer extraordinaire James Pickard of J P Rarebooks . He advises that he's just got ...
Saturday, 15 June 2013

He's back! Alternative history with a twist ....

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The genre of alternative history remains a popular staple in literature. One of the most recent examples published which I read - but foun...
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Monday, 10 June 2013

The Americans are still coming .... show 2 quick review

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Does ITV's The Americans have a chance of becoming one of the next 'must see' serials on TV? A new Homeland, perhaps? Might i...
Friday, 31 May 2013

The Americans are coming .....!

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How about a bit of Cold War nostalgia on TV? Forgotten what things were like when two superpowers ruled the world? Then maybe new drama Th...
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Competition - win a copy of a spy thriller classic - Tightrope

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Fancy a chance to win a copy of a somewhat forgotten but now revived espionage thriller? If so, read on. Resurrecting out-of-print class...
Monday, 20 May 2013

From the bookshelf to the newsstand - the serialisation of Billion Dollar Brain

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The serialisation of blockbuster books in daily and Sunday newspapers is a long-standing phenomenon in the publishing world. When Len Deight...
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Friday, 19 April 2013

The Deighton File - friend and biographer Edward Milward-Oliver on Len ...

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Due for an update Edward Milward-Oliver, author of the very useful and fact-filled Deighton Companion and the Annotated Bibliography, ha...
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Saturday, 13 April 2013

Harry Styles or Harry's Styles? .....

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No, this website has not suddenly gone all 'One Direction'. This is a short post about an interesting contemporary cultural referenc...
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Friday, 12 April 2013

Bernard Samson back on TV - immediate questions this raises .....

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Is this the face of Bernard Samson? The good news of Clerkenwell Films' plans for an 18-part TV mini-series of the nine-volume Berna...
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Thursday, 11 April 2013

Bernard Samson to reach the TV screen (again) ...

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Soon, in celluloid (or rather, MP4) Confirmed in today's Bookseller the news I mentioned below but had to keep stumm about: the De...
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Friday, 5 April 2013

News on the horizon ....

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The horizon, earlier today Can't say much yet, but there's a likelihood (I hope) of some interesting news at some point very soo...
Monday, 1 April 2013

New shots of Samson's Berlin ....

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Up on the main Deighton Dossier website I've added a new gallery page  showing more of the locations in Berlin which feature heavily in ...
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An Icelandic curiosity ....

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Thanks to regular correspondent 'Pilgrim' , I've come across a very unusual item: a profile of Len Deighton from one of Iceland...
Sunday, 17 March 2013

More on the Deighton Word Processor story ...

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Obsolete technology? Friend and Deighton biographer Edward Milward-Oliver points readers in the direction of another article in today...
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Saturday, 16 March 2013

Harry Palmer turns 80 ....

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UK screen giant Michael Caine has just turned eighty years old, and there has been a significant amount of coverage in the UK's - in t...
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