Edinburgh Network for Studies in Secrecy

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

Strangers share a 1932 train ride from Belgium to Istanbul, a journey that reveals the dark changes already sweeping the continent.

19/03/2020

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

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.

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).

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.....