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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….
An analysis of ‘The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met’ and why Disney cartoons used to be so incredibly dark and traumatic.
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…
As an author, one of my favourite things about writing is putting my characters in the cockpit of fictional aircraft. There’s something fascinating about being able to imagine…
Deutschland 83, created by Anna and Jörg Winger and released in 2015, is a spy thriller about a young East German agent in West Germany. It stars Jonas…
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…
The Game is a BBC spy thriller series set in 1970s London and focussing on MI5’s attempts to prevent a devastating KGB operation. It stars Tom Hughes as Joe Lambe, and Brian Cox as…
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…
Complicit stars David Oyelowo, who played Danny in Spooks/Mi5, as Edward Ekubo and Arsher Ali, who was in Four Lions, as Waleed Ahmed. Niall MacCormick directed, from a screenplay by…
Spies of Warsaw, based on the novel by Alan Furst and staring David Tennant as Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, Janet Montgomery as Anna Skarbek and Marcin Dorocinski as Antoni Pakulski is set in…