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Saturday, 7 August 2021

Eastern Europe in England

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I recently did some searching of various newspaper archives and found this interesting article from the Daily Mirror newspaper from late in ...
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Sunday, 16 May 2021

Couple of recent Deighton-related articles readers may be interested in

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Things are relatively quiet with respect to news about Deighton's books - now that the Penguin editions are starting to roll out - but t...
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Saturday, 13 March 2021

New Disney editions looking very stylish

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Last year, it was announced that Penguin had secured the paperback writes to Len Deighton's fiction and non-fiction output, and would p...
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Friday, 26 February 2021

Another serendipitous find

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As a collector of Len Deighton's output (along with a couple of other authors) for a number of decades, through talking to dealers, scou...
Friday, 1 January 2021

A new Harry Palmer on the horizon

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The new Harry Palmer. What, no glasses?  Before Christmas, ITV delivered a Christmas present for Deighton fans, of sorts. A new six-part TV ...
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Monday, 14 December 2020

On the passing of a great ...

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Sad news in the world of spy fiction with the passing of David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré , aged 89 after a short illness. What is there to...
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Thursday, 17 September 2020

It's not quite a new novel, but hey ....

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The rather natty cover of Howdunit Len Deighton is long into a well-deserved retirement - his last full novel was well over 25 years ago - b...
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Sunday, 12 July 2020

Snippets from the Ripster

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Lockdown's been an odd experience. Even as some restrictions ease, it's going to be an odd summer. I recently received a nice messag...
Thursday, 18 June 2020

The quest is over: the tale of the elusive SS-GB postcard

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This is a post about collecting, and the thrill of tracking down big game. In my case, the 'big game' was in fact small and rather i...
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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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