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Len Deighton

March 2022

  • Joe Cole as Harry Palmer in ITV’s The Ipcress File

    TV review
    The Ipcress File review – a working-class hero takes on the might of Russia

    ITV’s reboot of Len Deighton’s cold war spy thriller has Joe Cole as Harry Palmer sorting out the mess left by public school boys. Sound familiar?

May 2021

  • Len Deighton on the set of The Ipcress File with Michael Caine.

    Why Len Deighton’s spy stories are set to thrill a new generation

    The author’s son explains why the working-class heroes of his father’s soon-to-be-reissued novels will resonate today

October 2018

  • John Crace

    Digested week
    Dogs, Russia and Grayling face questions of intelligence

    John Crace
    Also this week: surreal sights at the Tory summit and the ultimate Bear Grylls TV show

March 2017

  • SS-GB: ‘Len Deighton’s novel still holds up well.’

    Reports of my death
    Clive James: ‘I’ve been going deaf for years, so wouldn’t have been able to hear SS-GB anyway’

    After the first episode, I was wiping the blood from my ears with Kleenex

February 2017

  • Douglas Archer (Sam Riley) in SS-GB

    The other side
    SS-GB: a timely treatise on dealing with dictatorship

    The BBC’s new alt-history drama imagines Britain under Nazi rule. The uncomfortably apposite question is: what would you do if a despot took hold?
  • First we take London … BBC1’s miniseries SS-GB, which premiered at the Berlin film festival.

    First look review
    SS-GB review – London is falling in chilling alt-history of second world war

    The BBC’s five-part miniseries, adapted from Len Deighton’s novel, holds up handsomely on the big screen, favouring film noir style over pulp content
  • Scene from SS-GB

    SS-GB's dystopian parallel universe – a drama for our time

    The BBC TV adaptation of Len Deighton’s novel about a Nazi-occupied Britain forces viewers to wonder: would we resist?

December 2016

  • Nigel Slater photographed at home

    The Observer at 225
    ‘Food writing was, as it has always been for the Observer, a celebration’

    Recognising the stirrings of a postwar food culture, the paper launched a column in 1952 which would go on to be penned by the likes of Len Deighton, Jane Grigson and, of course, Nigel Slater
    • Click here for more on the Observer at 225

November 2016

  • And Then There Were None

    Dining with death: crime fiction’s long affair with food

    From Sherlock Holmes to Inspector Maigret, fictional detectives often have healthy appetites, while ‘culinary cozy’ combines murders with recipes. Why do crime writers have a taste for food?

November 2015

  • Farley Granger (left) and Robert Walker in the 1951 film version of Strangers on a Train.

    Top 10s
    Top 10: the best dialogue in crime fiction

    Some of the most brilliant speech in novels can be found in this genre. From Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler and even Martin Amis, here are some of the best practitioners

September 2015

  • Ben Whishaw stars in London Spy

    Spy fall: why secret agents are everywhere this autumn

    From Conrad’s Secret Agent to Homeland, TV is in the grip of spymania: Ben Whishaw stars in London Spy, while two Bond writers have adapted Len Deighton’s SS-GB

December 2014

  • Len Deighton, left, and Michael Caine on the set of The Ipcress File, 1965

    Len Deighton’s Observer cookstrips, Michael Caine and the 1960s

    Novelist Len Deighton’s ‘cookstrips’ taught a generation of 1960s men to make minestrone, boeuf bourguignon and chicken paprika. To celebrate their return in OFM, he recalls what happened next. By Robin Stummer

November 2014

  • The Casual Vacancy, an adaptation of the JK Rowling novel, is part of the BBC's new drama season

    BBC to film new adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent

    Corporation announces 40 hours of new drama, including cop show Cuffs and return of Idris Elba hit Luther

March 2013

  • Len Deighton circa 1966

    Ebooks: the new reading
    The power of the pen – and its successors

    From the typewriter to the word processor and beyond, technology plays a pivotal role in the literary process, writes James Bridle

July 2012

  • GTV Archive

    New 'tribute' to classic Len Deighton thriller cover brings accusations of plagiarism

    Publisher faces criticism from designer's widow after 'shameful' mimicking of Raymond Hawkey's landmark book jacket

August 2010

  • Colour Medium Format Transparency

    Raymond Hawkey obituary

    Top graphic designer who revolutionised the look of newspapers and book covers

February 2010

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    The Maze of Cadiz, Bomber, War Horse and Elsie and Mairi Go to War

  • Arts diary
    Who should win the Lost Booker prize?

August 2009

  • Berlin Wall mural by Noir at Potsdamer Platz

    Books blog
    Top 10 books about the Berlin Wall

  • Quentin Tarantino in Toronto, 2009

    Tarantino mulls Deighton spy film to rival Bond

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