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Friday, 22 June 2018

Berlin Pension plan ...

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These images were sent to the Dossier by a German visitor, Peter Hegenbarth, a resident of Kissinger Strasse in Berlin, who wrote ...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Not soft, but hard boiled

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Some eggs, yesterday. Last year, on this blog, I posted up link to an article by Dr Robert Lance Snyder , a retired US academic, in an ...
Monday, 7 May 2018

Site refresh ...

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This morning I've updated the main Deighton Dossier website, giving it a 'spring clean', so to speak. Most of the main pho...
Sunday, 15 April 2018

False Dawns and Development Hell - the fate of 'non-movies'

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It is the fate of perhaps the majority of books which are 'optioned' to be made into films of TV series never to reach the small or ...
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Sunday, 18 February 2018

Happy 89th Birthday

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89 today On behalf of readers and fans of his work, the Deighton Dossier - set up to bring those people together online to celebrate and...
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Saturday, 17 February 2018

Brush pass this interesting podcast

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As readers of this blog may know, the Spybrary podcast by fellow Deighton fan and friend of the Deighton Dossier Shane Waley is pulling u...
Sunday, 11 February 2018

What's so special?

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A woman, scorned The first edition is the ultimata ratio of any book collector, the Holy Grail of the bibliophile. But there is also g...
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Sunday, 24 December 2017

Book review: 'Dark Ocean' by Nick Elliott

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The cover gives a big clue to the themes explored in the book! The spy and thriller genre is built on winning formulas. And winning cha...
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Saturday, 23 December 2017

Merry Christmas to all Deighton Dossier readers around the globe

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Even amidst barbarity, Christmas good will could still peek through in Berlin Well, another year draws to an end and, as we approach the...
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Tuesday, 28 November 2017

[Guest post update] SS-GB and its place in the alternate history landscape .... revisited

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In April, we published an article by Deighton Dossier reader and tier-one level collector Robert 'Raki' Rakison on SS-GB and alte...
Saturday, 21 October 2017

The Ipcress File: a textual and critical analysis

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Publicity photo from this iconic film of the book The Ipcress File I'm pleased to share with you a long, detailed and thoroughly in...
Monday, 28 August 2017

Deighton & Le Carré .... spy fiction titans cut from different cloth

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(c) Tom Jamieson, New York Times This recent New York Times profile of John Le Carré is part of the growing pre-launch hubbub surroundi...
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Thursday, 3 August 2017

In the days before flat whites and skinny moccachinos, there was .... chagga

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'Oh really, Bernard ...!" This post was inspired by an email from Deighton Dossier reader Morgan Davies , who sent a link to a...
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Friday, 30 June 2017

What's the correct term for a group of spy writers?

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Not a murder, or a gaggle. A 'briefing' of spy writers, perhaps, or a ... perhaps .... 'dossier of spy writers? Any ideas? ...
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Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Think you know a lot about British Thrillers? Think Again!

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The cover illustrations beautifully hint at the material discussed by Ripley Author and friend of the Deighton Dossier Mike Ripley - he...