Len Deighton's Action Cook Book, the first of five cookery books he wrote. Other topics of non-fiction include military history. Many of Deighton's books...
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Len Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing. He had a varied...
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Hope is a 1995 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the second novel in the final trilogy of three about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence...
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anti-hero protagonist of several films based on spy novels written by Len Deighton, in which the main character is an unnamed intelligence officer. For...
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The Ipcress File (film) (category Films based on works by Len Deighton)
Caine. The screenplay, by Bill Canaway and James Doran, was based on Len Deighton's novel The IPCRESS File (1962). It received a BAFTA award for the Best...
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Oh! What a Lovely War (category Works by Len Deighton)
"Len Deighton: The spy and I". The Independent. London. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2015. Scott, Robert Dawson (4 January 2006). "Len Deighton:...
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Berlin Game is a 1983 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the first of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged intelligence...
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SS-GB (category Novels by Len Deighton)
SS-GB is an alternative history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom conquered and occupied by Germany during the Second World War. The novel's...
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is a 1964 spy novel by Len Deighton set between Saturday 5 October and Sunday 10 November 1963. It was the third of Deighton's novels about an unnamed...
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The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick, SS-GB (1978) by Len Deighton, and Fatherland (1992) by Robert Harris. The stories deal with the politics...
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Billion-Dollar Brain is a 1966 Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the British WOOC(P)...
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Bullet to Beijing (category Films based on works by Len Deighton)
Brain, based on books by author Len Deighton. Though an alternative title is Len Deighton's Bullet to Beijing, Deighton was not associated with the film...
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Chris Farlowe (redirect from John Henry Deighton)
the nephew of Len Deighton. Farlowe was an apprentice carpenter in Holloway, London before he was a professional singer. John Henry Deighton became Chris...
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Winter is a 1987 novel by Len Deighton, which follows the lives of a German family from 1899 to 1945. At the same time the novel provides an historical...
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films, including works by John Buchan, le Carré, Ian Fleming (Bond) and Len Deighton. It is a significant aspect of British cinema, with leading British directors...
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Bernard Samson is a fictional character created by Len Deighton. Samson is a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the Secret...
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Billion Dollar Brain (category Films based on works by Len Deighton)
directed by Ken Russell and based on the 1966 novel Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero...
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Spy Story is a 1974 spy novel by Len Deighton, which features minor characters from his earlier novels The IPCRESS File, Funeral in Berlin, Horse Under...
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Horse Under Water (1963) is the second of several Len Deighton spy novels featuring an unnamed British intelligence officer (named Harry Palmer in the...
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Spy Hook is a 1988 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded...
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Spy Story (film) (category Films based on works by Len Deighton)
Latham and Don Fellows. It is based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. Michael Petrovitch: Patrick Armstrong Philip Latham: Ferdy Foxwell Don...
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The Ipcress File may refer to: The IPCRESS File, spy novel by Len Deighton (1962) The Ipcress File (film), British spy film by Sidney J. Furie (1965) The...
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Wall (2022) Herron has a broad range of influences from John le Carré, Len Deighton, Charles Dickens to Reginald Hill and P. G. Wodehouse. Herron began reading...
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The Ipcress File (TV series) (category Television shows based on works by Len Deighton)
television series loosely based on the 1962 novel The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton. Written by John Hodge and directed by James Watkins, it stars Joe Cole...
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Len Deighton's Action Cook Book is a 1965 collection of cookery strips (known as a cookstrip, an invention of Len Deighton's from his days as a student...
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Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat...
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An Expensive Place to Die is a 1967 novel by Len Deighton. It is set initially in Paris and takes its title from an Oscar Wilde quotation about the said...
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instructions. They were invented by Len Deighton while studying at the Royal College of Art in the 1950s. Deighton, who is a keen cook, originally drew...
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footballer Jeremy Deighton (born 1988), American soccer player John Deighton (1830–1875), English Canadian bar owner Len Deighton (born 1929), British...
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established in 1844 and have run uninterrupted since that time. In Len Deighton’s novel The Ipcress File (1962), the protagonist, (called Harry Palmer...
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