Tag: book review

• 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,…

  Iain Kelly

  28/09/2011

  Books, Cinema, Commentary, Culture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Review

  book review, cinema, commentary, film criticism, literature, mark kermode, movies, non-fiction, the good the bad and the multiplex

• 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…

  Iain Kelly

  25/07/2011

  Books, Commentary, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Review, Review

  007, art, book review, carte blanche, commentary, culture, james bond, jeffrey deaver, literature, Review, reviews

• 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

  22/04/2011

  Books, Commentary, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Review

  book review, christopher andrew, commentary, culture, espionage, history, keith jeffrey, literary, literature, MI5, MI6, non-fiction, Review, reviews, SIS, spies