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Olivia Joules: Book Review

Olivia Joules, written by Helen Fielding, the author of the Bridget Jones novels, and published in 2004, is a comedy-romance-spy-thriller about a journalist who suspects a millionaire businessman may also…

Bulldog Drummond: Book Review

Bulldog Drummond was written by ‘Sapper’ (a pseudonym of Cyril McNeile) and published in 1920 to great commercial success. It spawned a long-running franchise of novels and movies that lasted into the…

London Spy: TV Series Review

London Spy, is a BBC spy thriller series about a man whose MI6-operative lover is murdered. It stars Ben Whishaw as Daniel, Edward Holcroft as Alex and Jim Broadbent as Scottie. London Spy: Logline In…

Revolutions: Speculative Short Stories set in Manchester

Today is a proud day for me – the day we release Revolutions, my first anthology as editor. Revolutions is a collection of science-fiction, horror, dystopian and just plain weird…

Spectre – Movie Review

Spectre is the fourth James Bond film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond. Also starring are Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra, Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser, and Léa Seydoux…

The Gun Seller: Book Review

The Gun Seller was written by Hugh Laurie and published in 1996. Critics often describe it as one of the best comedy espionage novels ever written. The Gun Seller: Title…

Pattern Recognition: Book Review

Pattern Recognition was William Gibson’s first non-science-fiction novel, although it shares much of the style of his cyberpunk novels. He published it in 2003 as the first part of the…

The Madagaskar Plan: Book review

The Madagaskar Plan by Guy Saville is the sequel to his bestselling alternate history thriller, The Afrika Reich. In The Afrika Reich the protagonist, Burton Cole, attempted to assassinate the German…

Ministry of Fear – Book Review

Ministry of Fear, written by Graham Greene and published in 1943, is one of only two novels he published during World War Two, when he was working for MI6….

The Spy Who Loved Me: Movie Review

The Spy Who Loved Me was the third movie to star Roger Moore as James Bond, with Barbara Bach co-staring as KGB Major Anya Amasova. It is often described…