Len Deighton bibliography Len Deighton bibliography Len Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing. He had a varied career, including as a pastry cook, waiter, co-editor of a magazine, teacher and air steward before writing his first novel in 1962: "The IPCRESS File". He continued to produce what his biographer John Reilly considers "stylish, witty, well-crafted novels" in spy fiction, including three trilogies and a prequel featuring Bernard Samson. Deighton authored two television scripts, the first of which was "Long Past Glory" in 1963; he also wrote a film
The File on H. Jennie Ver Steeg from "Booklist", called it a "a witty, multilayered critique of totalitarianism, nationalism, and scholarly objectivity". "Publishers Weekly" referred to it as "an amusing parable" and to Kadare as a "Controversial Albanian dissident". They called the relationship between the govrenor and Dull Baxhaja "a masterpiece of Gogolian comedy". The File on H. The File on H. is a novel by the Albanian author Ismail Kadare. It first appeared in Albanian in 1981 under the title Dosja H. In this often-comic novel, two Homeric scholars from Ireland by way of Harvard University plan to investigate the tradition of oral