The history of the thriller is filled with stories of mistaken identities, impostors, and innocent men on the run from unknown enemies. It's hard to put a new spin on that theme, but in 1959 Alfred Hitchcock did with North by Northwest.

Good one this

Found! After 20 years digging up Bond-related material I have finally tracked down unpublished fiction by Ian Fleming himself: an umade TV script he wrote in 1956. The name is Gunn. James Gunn. My 5,400-word feature starts here: jeremy-duns.com/blog/jamesgunn…

Wow!

Just finished QUANTUM OF MENACE by Vaseem Khan (Oct ‘25). SUPERB. An irresistible cocktail of thrills, wit, and style. Fascinating to delve deep into Q’s life and work. Suspense, a Caterham, 007 cameos, a lab, humour, action, and charm. Fans of Slow Horses will LOVE this.

Jeremy Duns unearths Ian Fleming-written TV script hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/jer…

New Graham Greene story unearthed! ‘Greene’s tale delves into a resurrection of “childhood fears and imagined horrors” experienced by a terrified solo male traveler as he reads supernatural stories in bed on a stormy night on the French Riviera.’ theguardian.com/books/2025/may…

BREAKING: The Strand Magazine unveils lost short stories by Ian Fleming & Graham Greene in our 75th issue ⤵️ via The Associated Press apnews.com/article/ian-fl… #StrandFlemingGreene #IanFleming #GrahamGreene

Issue 75 is here: Ian Fleming’s “The Shameful Dream” & Graham Greene’s “Reading at Night,” plus new fiction by C.J. Box and an Amor Towles interview. Get shaken, stirred & scared—order now 👉 strandmag.com/product/issue-… #StrandMag #IanFleming #GrahamGreene

A bit more literary criticism/detective work as I trace Eric Ambler's lodestar for The Dark Frontier in part three of The Lives of Carruthers. (Don't read this unless you've read the other parts or it will make little sense!) jeremy-duns.com/blog/theliveso…

Carruthers Ex Machina: could ChatGPT write a new Eric Ambler novel? jeremy-duns.com/blog/livesofca… With a tip of the fedora to James Marriott

The first three paragraphs of a Chat-GPT review of the Rachel Papers by Martin Amis. Quite amazing. I think you could submit writing of this standard to a magazine and get published. Took three seconds.

Once more for this.

Hugely excited about this. A fabulous Scottish actor picked to play Philip's hero, Bernie Gunther....

I know Philip would have loved this casting

'One of the file descriptions for ‘The George Smiley Years’ stopped me in my tracks: Discarded TS. and MS. drafts and notes: ‘Contents of David’s workroom wastepaper bin, as of Dec ’20’, Nov 2020.’ Read Jeremy Duns thoughts at the link in the first comment. #johnlecarré

I wrote for Spybrary on what John le Carré's papers at the Bodleian might have in store, and on spy and thriller writers' archives in general: spybrary.com/spy-fiction-go…