Exploring secrecy and spying in culture and history at the University of Edinburgh: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ensis/
02/04/2020
Although we have had to cancel this year's Spy Week, we're still reading and writing about Spy Fiction. You can read co-director Penny Fielding's take on Greene's early novel "Stamboul Train" on Public Books
B-Sides: Graham Greene’s “Stamboul Train” Strangers share a 1932 train ride from Belgium to Istanbul, a journey that reveals the dark changes already sweeping the continent.
Due to the current global pandemic, we regret to say that Edinburgh Spy Week will not take place in 2020. We will be back in 2021.
18/09/2019
Professor Penny Fielding and others talk about the Quiller novels
In Praise of Adam Hall and Quiller Over time many authors have sung the praises of the Quiller books. I found authors as varied as a spy novelist who writes from a Christian perspective to a writer of Florida based pulp novels. I fo…
13/09/2019
One of Spy Week's favourite authors gets some attention.
In Praise of Adam Hall and Quiller Over time many authors have sung the praises of the Quiller books. I found authors as varied as a spy novelist who writes from a Christian perspective to a writer of Florida based pulp novels. I fo…
12/04/2019
Nadine Akkerman talks fantastically about women spies in the 17th century in our final Spy Week event https://global.oup.com/academic/product/invisible-agents-9780198823018
11/04/2019
Scenes from our thrilling James Bond panel!
11/04/2019
Anthony Horowitz, author of the Bond continuation novels Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day, in conversation with Jonny Murray Filmhouse Blackwell Bookshop Edinburgh, South Bridge
09/04/2019
James Bond discussion panel on Tuesday 2pm at 50 George Square, with Dr Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary London), Dr Nick Jones (York) and Dr Lucy Lobalzo Wright (Warwick).
The Seven Faces of Bond: Discussion Panel - Edinburgh Spy Week In a special event to mark our Bond season at Edinburgh Filmhouse, Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University London), Nick Jones (University of York) and Julie Lobalzo Wright (University of Warwick) will discuss the changing attitude to James Bond on screen. How have different actors changed the face of.....
