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The Sound of His Horn, written by ‘Sarban’ (the pen name of British writer John William Wall) and published in 1952 was one of the first alternate history novels set…
The Great Impersonation, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim, was published in 1920. Oppenheim wrote over one hundred novels, which sold millions of copies. Critics regard The Great Impersonation…
This is the day I have dreamed of… today is publication day for my first novel A Kill in the Morning. First thing this morning, I popped in…
Eye of the Needle (also published as Storm Island), written by Ken Follett and published in 1978, wasn’t his first novel, but it was his first big hit,…
From Russia With Love was written by Ian Fleming and published in 1957. It was the novel that made his name, and James Bond’s. From Russia with Love:…
Ashenden, written by Somerset Maugham and loosely based on his experiences as an MI6 agent during World War One, was published in 1928. Ashenden was one of the…
The Eagle Has Landed, written by Jack Higgins and published in 1975, was a massive bestseller and critics regard it as a classic of the spy thriller genre….
SS-GB is a classic work of alternative history, set in a world where Nazi Germany invaded Great Britain in 1940. Written by Len Deighton and published in 1978, it’s…
The Riddle of the Sands, written by Erskine Childers and published in 1903, is the prototype of all modern spy novels. Arguably, the only earlier spy novels are The Spy,…
A Kill in the Morning is a spy thriller written by me, Graeme Shimmin, and published by Transworld, a division of Penguin Random House, in 2014. It’s an…