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Friday, 27 March 2020

An organised shelf is a happy shelf

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Like a large part of the world's population right now, I am in 'lockdown' mode as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic, doin...
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Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Samson, yes … but Delilah? [Guest post]

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What are the parallels, if any, between Bernie Samson and his biblical namesake? [This is a guest post by first-time contributor Seym...
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Sunday, 2 February 2020

Marketing military history - Fighter and Battle of Britain

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While globally he is known for his spy fiction and as one of the premier spy fiction writers of the twentieth century, Len Deighton also dem...
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Sunday, 22 December 2019

Season's Greeting to Dossier readers

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Another year passes, another Christmas season approaches. I'd like to thank all the readers and visitors to this blog - and the acco...
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Sunday, 27 October 2019

Posting lull...

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As you can infer from the image, there's been something of a posting lull on the Deighton Dossier blog website the past three months...
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Saturday, 3 August 2019

Harry Palmer, mapped

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Been contacted recently about this neat initiative: the Literary Tube Map of London , by In The Book, which is a specialist publishing compa...
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Saturday, 6 July 2019

A Deighton online miscellany round-up

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The Internet offers an endless cornucopia of good stuff, if you can find it. Once in a while, I do a Google search using "Len Deigh...
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Thursday, 16 May 2019

Review: Desmond Bagley's 'missing' novel, Domino Island

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Twenty-first century cover, seventies story [ Note - this review will be spoiler free, as the book has only just been released (16 May) ...
Monday, 22 April 2019

Selling stories - the art of the advertisement

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Ray Hawkey's unforgettable advertising for Deighton's fifth novel In the current marketing man (or woman)'s tool box, digit...
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Monday, 18 February 2019

Happy 90th Birthday, Len Deighton, from your readers

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[Card courtesy of reader Peter Ashley] Anyone born in 1929 - as Len Deighton was, 90 years ago today (18 February) - has experienced a...
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Sunday, 17 February 2019

Now, that's a biography!

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I thought, ahead of Len's 90th birthday tomorrow, that I'd reproduce his biography which was included in the Penguin editions o...
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Len Deighton book montage

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Len Deighton's output from 1962 - 1996 Thanks to Len's friend Edward Milward-Oliver - author of the Len Deighton Companion - wh...
Sunday, 10 February 2019

Follow this Twitter moment marking Len's upcoming 90th birthday.

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The author running back to read the latest on the Deighton Dossier twitter feed To mark Len Deighton's birthday on 18 February, I wi...
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Sunday, 27 January 2019

Understanding SS-GB - a reader's appreciation [guest blog post]

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Thanks to reader and Dossier follower Terry Kidd for sharing this perspective on the books, in which he compares historical fiction i...
Saturday, 26 January 2019

Harry Palmer returned .... sort of.

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Author Penelope Wallace - former Chair, Crime Writers' Association International It's rare these days that I come across somethi...