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Book reviews by Graeme Shimmin.
Fade-Out, written by Patrick Tilley and published in 1975, is a cult classic, first-contact-with-aliens novel. It’s been a steady seller for fifty years and never out of print,…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, written by John le Carré and published in 1974, is le Carré’s masterpiece, even better than The Spy Who Came In From The Cold….
633 Squadron, written by Frederick E. Smith and published in 1956, was the source novel for the classic 1963 war movie of the same name. Although it’s not…
Swastika Night was written by Katharine Burdekin and published in 1937 under the pseudonym “Murray Constantine”. It is remembered primarily as the first novel to portray a world…
The Probability Broach, an alternative history novel about a libertarian utopia, was written by L. Neil Smith and published in 1979. I think The Probability Broach is the…
Come Into My Parlour, written by Dennis Wheatley and published in 1949, was the sixth of Dennis Wheatley’s novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust—a series that critics sometimes…
The Scarlet Pimpernel, written by Baroness Emma Orczy and published in 1905, was based on a popular play also written by the Baroness first performed in 1903. The…
Fair Stood the Wind for France, written by H. E. Bates and published in 1944, was Bates’ first commercially successful novel. Although not strictly an espionage novel, it includes…
Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published in 1992, is one of the greatest alternative history novels ever written. It’s the only alternative history novel ever shortlisted…
A Legacy of Spies is a John le Carré novel published in 2017. It’s a parallel story to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, within a…