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...Herron’s lethally witty prose hits a sweet spot in the centre of a triangle whose points are John le Carré, PG Wodehouse — and, perhaps, Ricky Gervais’s The Office....
...Now try this My belated dash through Mick Herron’s Slough House novels has reached Bad Actors, the latest in the series....
...Now try this My deepest thanks to all of the readers who urged me to press on with Mick Herron’s other novels....
...At 17, he got his big break when he was cast as a young soldier in the 1958 war film Dunkirk alongside Richard Attenborough, John Mills and Bernard Lee....
...he said, glancing at the ornate interior of the West End theatre — a Beatles gag, referring to John Lennon’s sardonic comment while performing for royalty at the 1963 Royal Variety Show....
...Books mentioned: –Audiobooks: Bad Actors by Mick Herron and Ulysses by James Joyce –Novels that span centuries: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara and Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel –Beach read...
...Slow Horses, an adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel about washed-up M15 agents, will debut on Apple TV on April 1....
...There is some distance between the Cannery Row of John Steinbeck’s 1945 novel and Slough House, the London headquarters of Mick Herron’s floundering intelligence officers....
...Mick Herron is the author of the Slough House series of spy thrillers...
...Lilah RaptopoulosFor a light non-fiction read, Fred recommends Circus of Dreams by John Walsh....
...As Sir John Curtice, the polling guru behind the survey, told me, Brexit was about something more fundamental than economics or process....
...— Don Diego de la Vega The Jackson Lamb series by Mick Herron, John Murray, £24.94 My reads at the moment are: the Jackson Lamb series; the latest Hilary Mantel book The Mirror and the Light (Fourth...
...“The cat sat on the mat is not a story,” as John le Carré has opined, “but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.”...
...Joe Country , by Mick Herron, John Murray, RRP£14.99/Soho Press, RRP$26.95 Sixth in the Jackson Lamb Slough House series, where exiled spooks are put out to grass in central London....
...The audio versions of Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb series of tales of rogue spooks are excellent. In terms of an author fitting for unsettling times, try Joseph Roth....
...Now Met Breur Hayward Gallery London, designed by Norman Engleback, Ron Herron, Warren Chalk and John Attenborough, opened 1968 Letter in response to this article: Innovative curator let viewers meander...
...This Is What Happened , by Mick Herron, John Murray, RRP£12.99/Soho Crime, RRP$25.99 There is, quite simply, no current thriller writer who enjoys better word-of-mouth than Mick Herron, whose sardonic series...
...Crime by Barry Forshaw Spook Street, by Mick Herron, John Murray, RRP£14.99/Soho Crime, RRP$15.95 Winner of a 2017 CWA Dagger, this is irresistible writing suggesting a love child of le Carré and Joseph...
...Herron’s cutting dialogue, as ever, is priceless. Spook Street , by Mick Herron, John Murray, RRP£14.99, 352 pages...
...Nobody knows where Article 50’s triggering will lead us, said the managing director Colin Herron. “I don’t know who’s telling the truth; what’s going to happen.”...
...Abigail Herron, head of responsible investment engagement at Aviva Investors, said the appointment was a “positive first step” towards improving gender balance and diversity in the senior management of Glencore...
...“We can’t compete on conventional technology [such as engines] because the West Midlands is doing that,” says Colin Herron, managing director of Zero Carbon Futures, a subsidiary of the college....
...“We’re going forward for the next two to three years delivering the project”, says Colin Herron, manager of manufacturing and productivity at One North East....
...“We are trying to build an ‘X’ factor on top of what government can legally offer,” says Colin Herron of One North East, Newcastle’s regional development agency....
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