Cookstrip home as a weekly feature in The Observer. The first cookstrip, "Cooking Beef: Part 1", appeared in The Observer on March 18, 1962 eight months before the release of Deighton's debut novel, The IPCRESS File. The "Len Deighton's Action Cookbook" which expanded these cookstrips into a full-length book was published March 1965, timed to coincide with the release of the film of "The Ipcress File" starring Michael Caine. Deighton chose the menu for the movie's press lunch and everyone was presented with a copy of the book. In the movie, Caine's character, Harry Palmer, is seen cracking eggs with one
Susan Fletcher (British author) Susan Fletcher (British author) Susan Fletcher (born 1979) is a British novelist. Fletcher was born in Birmingham and studied at the University of York (BA in English and Related Studies) and then at the University of East Anglia (MA in Creative Writing). Her first novel, "Eve Green", was published in 2004 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins. It features an eight-year-old girl who is sent to a new life in rural Wales. It won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award, the Authors' Club award and the Betty Trask Prize; it was also shortlisted for The LA Times Book Award