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Len Deighton

Male : Novelist, Cookery writer & artist. Creator of Harry Palmer
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Marylebone, London

Date of Birth : 1929

Pseudonyms : Cyril Deighton

Other Work : Teacher, News Photographer, Magazine artist

Education : St Martin's School of Art & RCA
Cape unless stated
1954-1960
(In) Abroad in London (1954 Ark, Issue 10) - 1st published writing
Oliver Manning : My Husband Cartwright
(1956 Heinemann) - [the only book Deighton illustrated]

1961-1965
The Ipcress File
(1962 Hodder & Stoughton) - only 4000 printed (1963 Simon & Schuster)
[Filmed in 1965]
Horse Under Water
(1963) (1968 Putnam)
Funeral in Berlin
(1964) (1965 Putnam)
[Filmed in 1967]
(Ed) Drinks-Man-Ship (1964 Haymarket Press)
Action Cook Book : Len Deighton's Guide to Eating
(1965 Cape)
Ou Est Le Garlic ? or Len Deighton's French Cook Book
(1965 Penguin) - pb
[The above two issued in a slipcase]
(1967 Penguin)

1966-1970
Billion Dollar Brain
(1966 Putnam) (1966 Cape as "The Billion Dollar Brain")
[Filmed in 1967]
Cookstrip Cook Book
(1966 Geis NY) - same as Ou Est Le Garlic ? Deighton
Len Deighton's London Dossier
(1967 Cape) - 5600 issued
Len Deighton's London Dossier
(1967 Penguin)
[Issued simultaneously with above but 75,000 issued]
(Ed) The Assassination of President Kennedy (1967 Cape/Jackdaw)
- with Michael Rand & Howard Loxton.
An Expensive Place to Die
(1967 Putnam) (1967) - with in laid 'Top Secret' wallet
Only When I Larf
(1967 PP) - ring bound Ltd Ed 150
Len Deighton's Continental Dossier
(1968 Michael Joseph) - boards
Only When I Larf
(1968 Michael Joseph) - 9000 Hb. 150 signed (1968 Sphere pb) - 250,000
[A Signed UK First edition was sold at auction in 2001 for £345]
[Filmed in 1968]
Bomber
(1970) (1970 Harper & Row)

1971-1980
Declarations of War
(1971) - ss
Close-up
(1972) (1972 Atheneum)
Spy Story
(1974) (1974 Harcourt Brace)
Yesterday's Spy
(1975) (1975 HB)
Eleven Declarations of War
(1975 HB) - same as ss edition above minus 2 stories
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Spy
(1976) (1976 HB)
Fighter : The True Story of the Battle of Britain
(1977 Cape) (1978 Knopf)
Airshipwreck
(1978 Cape) (1979 Holt Rinehart) - with Arnold Scwartzman
SS-GB : Nazi-occupied Britain 1941
(1978) (1979 Knopf)
Basic French Cooking
(1979 Cape) - revised & enlargement of earlier edition
Blitzkreig
(1979 Cape) (1980 Knopf)
Battle of Britain
(1980 Cape £8.50) (1980 Howard McCann)
The Orient Flight LZ 127 - Graf Zeppelin
(1980 German Philatelic Society)
- by Cyril Deighton, with Fred F Blau

1981-1985
The Egypt Flight LZ 127 - Graf Zeppelin
(1981 German Philatelic Society)
- by Cyril Deighton, with Fred F Blau
XPD
(1981 Hutchinson) (1981 Knopf)
Goodbye Mickey Mouse
(1982 Hutchinson) (1982 Knopf)
Game, Set & Match Trilogy
Berlin Game
(1983 Hutchinson £8.95) (1984 Knopf)
Mexico Set
(1984 Hutchinson) (1985 Knopf)
London Match
(1985 Hutchinson) (1986 Knopf)
Game, Set & Match
(1985 Hutchinson) (1989 Knopf) - single vol
Introduction to the Adventure of the Priory School
(1985 Santa Teresa Press, US) - only 25 copies

1986-1990
Winter : A Berlin Family 1899-1945
(1987 Century Hutchinson £11.95) (1987)
Hook, Line & Sinker Trilogy
Spy Hook
(1988 CH) (1988)
Spy Line
(1989 CH) (1989)
Spy Sinker
(1990 £13.99) (1990 Harper Collins)
Hook, Line & Sinker
(1991) - single volume
ABC of French Food
(1989 Century £14.95)
Basic French Cookery Course
(1990 Century Hutchinson)

1991 Onwards
Mamista
(1991 Century £14.99) (1991 HC)
City of Gold
(1992 Century £14.99)
Violent Ward
(1993 Harper Collins £14.99) (1993 Scorpion Press)
Blood, Tears and Folly : An Objective Look at World War Two
(1993 Cape £20)
Trilogy
Faith
(1994 HC £14.99)
Hope
(1996 Harper Collins £14.99)
Charity
(1996 Harper Collins £16.99)

READING
Edward Milward-Oliver : Len Deighton - An Annotated Bibliography 1954-1985
Edward Milward-Oliver : The Len Deighton Companion
(1987 Sammier Press)

See also

Penguin Books : History