The IPCRESS File The IPCRESS File The IPCRESS File is Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962. It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman, directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Michael Caine. The novel, which involves Cold War brainwashing, includes scenes in Lebanon and on an atoll for a United States atomic weapon test, as well as information about Joe One, the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb, although these elements did not appear in the film version. The novel is framed as the unnamed protagonist delivering his personal report on "the IPCRESS affair" directly to the
The Greenhouse (novel) The Greenhouse (novel) The Greenhouse is British author Susan Hillmore's first novel. It was first published in 1988 by Collins Harvill and was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year. It was republished by Vintage Books in 2000 when it was praised as being one of the 'best books of 2000' according to critics at "The Independent". and recommended as Summer reading the following year in "The Guardian". The story is told from the point of view of a greenhouse which tells of the family living in the house to which it belongs; most notably Vanessa a girl