No idea what this post says ... but I get the gist!

The article on #FionaSamson looks interesting.

Join us in the #Spybrary time machine as we travel back to 1964 and review the latest 007 novel You Only Live Twice - The James Bond Book Club. Just search 'Spybrary on your podcast app or watch us on YouTube. #IanFleming #bookclub #jamesbond #youonlylivetwice

Good news!

Latest purchase ... looking forward to it, but will have to wait for a while, as I already have another book on the go. If you've already finished it, what did you think? #SloughHouse

Indeed.

This week, we unwrap the most unique #JamesBond film ever — On Her Majesty’s Secret Service! Join us as we explore #GeorgeLazenby’s lone 007 turn, the film’s emotional punch, its revolutionary risks, and why it stands apart in the Bond canon. #OHMSS spybrary.com/281

Happy Christmas and good wishes for the New Year to all followers of this channel Apologies for the relatively infrequent posting this year!

Excellent chat last night with Shane, David and Elliot from Spybrary to think about themes, format and presentation for planned Spybrary-Deighton Dossier podcast series on #LenDeighton, aimed at both long-time fans and the uninitiated Details on group FB pages - ideas welcome

The Japanese edition of Len Deighton's Horse Under Water is entitled more prosaically - but accurately - 'Drugs on the Seabed' as far as I can tell. The cover of this paperback is rather cool, incorporating an element from the original - the skull

A letter from today’s ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ with some fine courtroom humour…

He's back. On today’s Spybrary, Tim Shipman returns for a spoiler-free chat with David McCloskey, former CIA analyst, host of Goalhanger The Rest is Classified, and acclaimed novelist, to discuss his fourth and most ambitious book yet: The Persian. Link in 1st reply.

In this era of AI-generated design slop and convergent evolution around the ubiquitous "man in the shadows" by publishers, it's even more important to remember when book cover design was an art in which many UK designers excelled and led the world. This was a prime example...

Happy 97th Birthday to the author Len Deighton. Spy fiction writer (most famously), but also: Illustrator Film producer Playboy writer Historian Cook Book cover designer. His books have given pleasure to readers around the world ever since #TheIPCRESSFile emerged in 1962.

Happy Birthday, Len Deighton. Born #OTD in 1929. Early career as a book illustrator, before other great achievements as a thriller writer & with ‘cookstrips’ for the Observer – one of which featured in the movie of The Ipcress File and the enduring antihero Harry Palmer.

Happy Birthday to spy novelist Len Deighton! The man behind the IPCRESS series, the Bernard Samson novels and much more turns 97 years old today, but what’s your favourite Deighton novel or tv/film adaptation?

Happy 97th Birthday to the Patron Saint of Spybrary, Mr Len Deighton, who is still going strong! #LenDeighton #spybrary

Thanks for all the readers who follow this channel #MyXAnniversary