RANDOM JOTTINGS

A blog about music, sports, theatre and rants

Long time blogger just moved to wordpress. Love music, theatre, movies, sport (tennis and cricket) and cooking. Two great daughters, two great granddaughters.

Category: Spy/thrillers

  • Before Stella Rimington, Before M, there was Davina Graham

    About six years ago I posted about Evelyn Anthony, one of my favourite authors who I read back in the sixties and seventies, and begged for them to be reprinted.   Fast forward to 2016 and there they all are available for the Kindle generation. I could not be more pleased. Before turning to spy and…

  • Thriller binge

    As is my wont when I find somebody I like to read I binge read the lot and then am left wingeing and moaning because I have to wait for the author to get his laptop out and get cracking with the next one.  As with Donna Leon, a prime example of this when I…

  • Evelyn Anthony – author who needs republishing please

    I am embarking on a re-read of the novels of Evelyn Anthony.  They are  nearly all out of print as far as I can see which I think is a great shame as they are all well written and exciting.  Authors who I used to love as a teenager are gradually reappearing, Victoria Holt, Jean…

  • The Trinity Six – Charles Cumming

    "You know, you should never catch a spy. Discover him and then control him, but never catch him. A spy causes far more trouble when he's caught"        Harold Macmillan. When Maggie and Gorbachev became friendly and the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War seemingly ended, there were various articles in newspapers signalling the…