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Where Eagles Dare: Book Review

Where Eagles Dare, written by Alistair Maclean and published in 1967, was a critical and commercial success, and critics regard it as a classic of the spy thriller…

SS-GB: Book and Television Miniseries Review

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…

YouWriteOn Book of the Year is A Kill in the Morning

A Kill in the Morning has won the YouWriteOn book of the year! This is how I felt when I found out: YouWriteOn’s owner, Ted Smith commented about A…

Rogue Male – Book Review

Rogue Male, written by Geoffrey Household and published in 1939, is one of the first assassination novels told from the point of view of the assassin. Widely regarded…

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold: Review

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, written by John le Carré and published in 1963, is a literary thriller addressing the amorality of spying and the cynicism…

A Kill in the Morning to be published by Transworld

My book A Kill in the Morning is to be published by Transworld! Here’s is the official picture of me celebrating. Underneath the cool exterior I am a maelstrom of…

A Kill in the Morning shortlisted for Terry Pratchett Prize

My book A Kill in the Morning has been shortlisted for the Terry Pratchett Prize! Here’s a picture of a bemused me trying to absorb the news. About…

The Riddle of the Sands: Book Review

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,…

Fatherland by Robert Harris: Book Review

Fatherland, written by Robert Harris and published in 1992, is set in a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World War. By the nineteen sixties, Germany dominates…

A Kill in the Morning

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…