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Friday, 30 October 2015

Battle of Britain ... images from a unique copy of the book

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Still a brilliant depiction of the battle A reader of this blog, [we'll call him RR], is one of the world's top Ian Fleming col...
Thursday, 15 October 2015

London filming starts soon on SS-GB ... with a surprise for residents

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The Holly Lodge Estate, near the Highgate Cemetery Very interesting little story in today's Evening Standard, here . The good burg...
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Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Game, Set ... but not Match? A reader invites answers on perplexing questions about the Samson series

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Adrian Bailey's illustration for the Game, Set and Match series. Can you recognise each character? The Samson series of ten novels i...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

More info on the coming SS-GB adaptation ...

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1980's paperback cover art ...courtesy of the Radio Times. In this piece online , the magazine confirms the appointment of Sam Ril...
Friday, 11 September 2015

Spies are cool again ... says the Guardian

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Great article in this week's Guardian newspaper about the fact that spies and agents are de riguer again in Television. TV critic M...
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Monday, 24 August 2015

James Bond is 85 tomorrow - happy birthday!

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That's Sean Connery, of course, who's 85th birthday is on 25 August. Great actor as Bond but also in so many other films that are ...
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Friday, 14 August 2015

Riley ... ace of spies

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News from the film world about the planned SS:GB film production, being written by Bond writers Neil Purvis and Robert Wade. Actor Sam R...
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Monday, 3 August 2015

Food for thought: Deighton on Radio 4 in August

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When last in London, Len Deighton recorded an interview with Radio 4, which will be broadcast at 1230h on 9 August. The theme is food he...
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Saturday, 27 June 2015

Fifth Q&A with the author ...

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The author, 2013 As promised, Len Deighton has kindly responded to the request of the blog editor and readers and provided a fifth editi...
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Monday, 8 June 2015

Another file on Ipcress ....

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Friend of the blog and Deighton biographer Edward Milward-Oliver has written a nice new blog post on The Ipcress File on the Picturehouse...
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Friday, 29 May 2015

Off hunting

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The ultimate 1st edition? Expecting tomorrow to be at the Rare Books London fair hosted by the ABA and PBF at Olympia. It's regarde...
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Sunday, 17 May 2015

Choose ... wisely

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[Just dropped in a little Indian Jones and the Last Crusade reference, did you see?] Readers, I put up a recent post about ideas for th...
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Not an app, but a lagniappe .....

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A mysterious lagniappe I've recently purchased a US first edition of XPD , Len Deighton's 1981 novel which, following in the SS...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Further on the trail of Funeral in Berlin .....

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A recent post highlighted a rare discovery of a Funeral in Berlin paperback release press kit from Penguin ( posts passim ).  Today I met ...
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Sunday, 19 April 2015

Choose your theme....

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I had lunch with Len yesterday, who was on good form. No major news regarding the various film projects where rights have been obtained an...
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