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Thursday, 24 October 2013

There's a lot of good books to choose from ….

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An interesting article here in The Guardian online, posting what the author DJ Taylor posts as his top-ten counter-factual novels of all ...
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Monday, 14 October 2013

Archive round-up (2) - back when magazines were king....

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In lieu of any significant news at the moment (that I can report at least) on Len's body of work, I've been looking through my colle...
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Thursday, 3 October 2013

Tom Clancy ... mission sadly over

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The late Tom Clancy Lots of media reaction in the last couple of days to the death of novelist Tom Clancy , often presented as the world...
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Saturday, 14 September 2013

Round-up - Smiley culture, X-rays and books within books....

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Picked-up across the Inter-web some interesting things I thought I'd bring to the attention of the readers of the Deighton Dossier. Fi...
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Sunday, 8 September 2013

Dabbling around the internet ....

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I found this interesting article on a website and culture blog The Dabbler , which looks at how Len Deighton, through his 'Harry Palm...
Sunday, 25 August 2013

Archive round-up - some lesser known discoveries ....

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Posting on the blog has as readers will see been a bit slower than normal over the last couple of months with the summer, holidays and other...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

If they weren't so notorious, this would be funny - Stasi disguises....

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Really? The cardigan is not a good look An interesting story cropped up this week when browsing through the Daily Mail's website. An...
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Sunday, 28 July 2013

A design on food - French author evidently draws inspiration from Deighton's cook strip's - FT

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The book that started it all I came across an interesting Deighton reference on Friday in that week's FT - not in the business secti...
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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Michael Caine: 1960s by Graham Marsh - book review

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The coffee table Caine Who was the male face of film in the 'sixties? Sean Connery? Tom Courtenay? Dustin Hoffmann? All have...
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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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