Confession time: I’d never read any John LeCarré until after I’d seen the 2011 film of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It’s a brilliant movie, and one that sent me scuttling to read the Karla trilogy and then watch the two excellent Alec Guinness adaptations. After devouring the first two episodes of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, I can think of no higher compliment than to say that I’m bulk-buying the book series it was adapted from in short order.Slow Horses is an adaptation of Mick Herron’s series of Slough House novels, featuring a group of British spies trapped in administrative purgatory. MI5 agents who have committed high-profile mistakes but know far too much to be fired are dumped in the dingy Slough House. There, they are given harmless busywork too demeaning for real spies to undertake, all the while being tormented and demeaned by division chief Jackson Lamb, played by Gary Oldman.It’s this world that former superstar spy River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) is thrust into after his own notorious error while out in the field. There, he’s given jobs like searching a dodgy journalist’s trash can and acting as a courier between offices. It’s hardly a spoiler to suggest that Cartwright’s arrival triggers something of a major case for the rejects to handle, which has mostly kicked off by the time the second episode finishes.What Slow Horses has to offer, beyond the enjoyment of a modern-day thriller done right, is a sense of pulpy fun. A sequence in the second episode I can’t spoil... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
[ Engadget | 2022-04-07 16:00:47 UTC ]
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Claire Adam, Michael Donkor and Anna Mackmin have all made the 2019 Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist for debut novelists, with the winner in line for £10,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booker and Jhalak Prize winners Anna Burns and Guy Gunaratne are among the 12 novelists longlisted for the first Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Travis d’Arnaud, the Dodgers’ newest catcher, walked into in the visitors’ clubhouse at Petco Park five minutes before 11 a.m. Sunday. He was fitted for a cap and a batting helmet. He introduced himself to unfamiliar people and greeted a few familiar ones. Austin Barnes, the Dodgers’ starting... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The themes of the 2019 Digital Content NewFronts all felt very familiar: Digital publishers spoke profusely about brand safety, original programming and scale. They are the same themes that will likely dominate the upfronts later this month, when TV networks pitch their new programming and ad... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This year’s BISG annual meeting, held April 26 at the Harvard Club in New York City, surveyed a range of trends across the publishing supply chain. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Will Self has declared literature to be "morphing into a giant quilting exercise", suggesting that no current creative writing graduates will make a living from literary fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There's a lot of work - and a lot of fun - involved in the business of selling comics, Chris Lander tells Mike Mather. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Raynor Winn and A J Pearce are among the authors on the six-strong shortlist for the inaugural Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It isn’t exactly a new strategy for digital publishers to position themselves as TV replacements during the NewFronts. But Condé Nast is making the most direct push so far to take on traditional during this week’s NewFronts, introducing new ad products that package its premium inventory, and a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ben Aaronovitch’s bestselling Rivers of London series has been optioned for television by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hesh Kestin, the author of 'Siege of Tel Aviv,' the controversial novel about the destruction of Israel that was pulled by Dzanc Books earlier this week, is making a digital edition of the book available to readers on his website. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram sensation Mrs Hinch has been forced to cancel her remaining book tour dates in Glasgow, London and Southampton for her bestselling cleaning guide-slash-memoir Hinch Yourself Happy (Michael Joseph). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Pat Riley are headed to HBO. The premium cable network has ordered a pilot for a scripted drama based on Jeff Pearlman's nonfiction book “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.” The 2014 book recounts in detail all... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I don’t think we’re there yet. While various interested parties are trying sell Apple News+ as an obvious win-win-win-win-win for publishers, readers, Apple, democracy, cats, dogs and the perfect flaky pie crust, color me skeptical. Oh, there was no shortage of optimism when Apple announced the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In spring 2017, global markets crowned Evan Spiegel the new boy king of tech. At just 26 years old, Spiegel took his photo-message and camera company Snap Inc. public for $24 billion, making it the biggest initial public offering in years. The unprofitable company was valued more highly than... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-19 14:00:00 UTC ]
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In spring 2017, global markets crowned Evan Spiegel the new boy king of tech. At just 26 years old, Spiegel took his photo-message and camera company Snap Inc. public for $24 billion, making it the biggest initial public offering in years. The unprofitable company was valued more highly than... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-19 14:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling Apple Books in fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, health, mind & body, and more for the week ended April 14, 2019. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SERIES Blindspot The team uncovers an international conspiracy while hunting for a stolen weapon in this new episode of the action drama; with Jaimie Alexander and Sullivan Stapleton. 8 p.m. NBC Dynasty Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies) takes over a publishing company, while Cristal (Ana Brenda... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Speculative writers flesh out our passing thoughts into complete, functioning societies and explore how they might unfold. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2019-04-18 09:22:03 UTC ]
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Nina Stibbe and Roddy Doyle have been nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, on a shortlist that is dominated by women. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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