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Reading list: Summer with a Side of Spies
Inspired by Wanda's original list of Summer of Spies and Moonlight Reader's equally inspiring authorised copy of Wanda's list, I'm also tempted to read some spy fiction - but only on the side.
I have no illusions of finishing all of the titles on this list but wanted to have a pool of titles that I know I already own or can get from the library.
Books: 15
1.
by Alan Furst
Note: Library
2.
by James B. South, James B. South
Note: Own.
I can't have a list of spy books without something relating to Bond.
3.
by Hugh Laurie
Note: Library
4.
by Eric Ambler
Note: Library
5.
by Agatha Christie
Note: Own.
Oh, look! A Christie espionage thriller! Get the gin!
6.
by Gertrude Bell
Note: Own.
Not just a famous traveller, Bell was also "attached to the Foreign Office".
7.
by Alan Judd
Note: Library.
Btw, Judd was a former Army officer but he was also formerly "attached to the Foreign Office". I was rather impressed by his talk at Bloody Scotland in 2016.
8.
by Helen MacInnes
Note: Own
9.
by John le Carré
Note: Own
10.
by Phyllis Bottome
Note: Own.
Not necessarily a "spy" novel, but one of the characters is based on the young Ian Fleming - that is close enough for me to qualify. (Also, I really, really want to read this.)
11.
by Sarah Helm
Note: Library
12.
by Len Deighton
Note: Own
13.
by Wu Ming
Note: Own.
Not sure how much spying there will be but the blurb promised KGB operatives.
14.
by Lara Elena Donnelly
Note: Own
15.
by Rosalie Knecht
Note: Own
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Btw, I'd suggest some of the Bond books you picked are also better with the help of a little tipple.
Also, have you read the Baghdad one, yet?
http://www.weinhaus-gutsuelz.de/ -- one of the two well-established, traditional wineries in the village where I spent the better part of my childhood.
And no, "Baghdad" is actually the one book in Christie's canon that I'm looking at with ever-increasing trepidation (all the more in view of both "Destination Unknown" and "Passenger to Frankfurt", a bastard child -- or first cousin -- of both of which I firmly suspect "Baghdad" to be). But going there in company sounds like that just might make it a bit more bearable ...
Though obviously, booze and spies are a natural combination whichever way you look at it.