Nothing Tra La La?

This is the first of Terrance’s books to be published in my lifetime, on 12 July 1976. The indicia says it was published simultaneously in G...

I said a couple of years ago that the experience of reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles was a bit like a conversation with my lat...

First published in 2011, this absorbing history of the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) describes how, during the 1950s, some 5,00...

After so enjoying Margot Bennett’s 1952 crime novel The Widow of Bath , I plunged into her next novel, a thriller first published in 1953. I...

“In the early spring of nineteen sixty-three, there was a rumour — unconfirmed and a little scandalous — that George Smiley might almost be ...

You can now download for free the four-page postscript to my biography of David Whitaker , detailing some of the things I've learned sin...

First published in 1945, this is the second of the detective novels starring Oxford don and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen. Following the events...

I really enjoyed this wide-ranging ramble through Bond, the Beatles and the British psyche. It charts the interweaving histories of the Fabs...

I've long been on the look-out for this original novel based on the ITV spy series The Sandbaggers (1978-80) . A chum lent it to me last...

"The frank, uncensored story of what really happens in the making of a super-film," promises the back-cover blurb on Roger Moore a...

The new issue of medical journal Lancet Psychiatry includes my essay, "Was it obvious to everyone else that I'd fallen for a lie?...

I've been gadding about this week, braving the petrol crisis to venture to Cambridge and Liverpool, accompanied on the road by Jason Isa...