Category: Literature
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE MULTIPLEX: WHAT’S WRONG WITH MODERN MOVIES?
by Mark Kermode Mark Kermode and I have a number of disagreements about films. Not that he is aware of them of course, having never met me or read anything I have written or said about films (despite the fact he has worked on BBC TWO’s The Culture Show, as I have in the edit,…
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CARTE BLANCHE
The new James Bond novel, by Jeffrey Deaver. The last novel authorised by the Fleming Estate was in 2007 , when Sebastian Faulks chose to write as Ian Fleming and deliver a classic cold war Bond tale in Devil May Care. It was set in the 1960’s, contemporary with Fleming’s original novels and tried to imitate both…
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RENOIR, MY FATHER
RENOIR, MY FATHER Jean Renoir A biography of the Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, by his son, the French film director, Jean. In principle, this is a simple book. A fond, often sentimental, look back at the life one of the great artists of the late 19th, and early 20th, centuries, as remembered by his middle…
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BRITAIN’S SECRET HISTORY
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 Keith Jeffrey To mark the centenary of the creation of both the British Security Service and Secret Service (they both started as one organisation before evolving into the two separate organisations early on), both MI5 and MI6 opened…
Iain Kelly 