As mentioned yesterday, “Thin Ice”, by author Michael Davies, was published today by HarperCollins Publishers UK. Michael went along to BBC Northamptonshire to chat with presenter Bernie Keith about the Desmond Bagley legacy involved, and his latest work. The show is available on BBC Sounds now. Michael’s segment begins at 44m41s and lasts for about twelve minutes.
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Thin Ice - New Bill Kemp novel
Tomorrow, October 24th, is publication day for Michael Davies’s new book – “Thin Ice”.
This new story once more features Bill Kemp, Bagley’s insurance investigator, who’d been languishing in an unpublished manuscript deep in Boston University’s archive for decades. Philip Eastwood of The Bagley Brief website dug him out and the novel “Domino Island” followed, curated by Michael. Such was the success of a new Bagley story that its sequel “Outback” was commissioned.
“Thin Ice” is now Bill Kemp’s third outing. I haven’t seen a copy so like me you’ll have to head on over to Amazon UK – or your local book store – to find out more.
Thursday, 10 October 2024
Wicked Spirits
Harper-Collins have just published a new anthology of spooky stories, probably in time for the Halloween season, called Wicked Spirits. The contents are supernatural mysteries by well-known authors that were “previously unpublished”. It includes the short story The House of the Lions by Bagley, about the strangeness at his then home, Hay Hill in Totnes.
This story isn’t “previously unpublished” as stated. It appeared as an extra in a double-book edition – The Spoilers & Juggernaut – in 2009.
ISBN-13 : 978-0008564254
Collins Crime Club (26 Sept. 2024)
Monday, 29 July 2024
Night of Error
... was the author's penultimate novel and explored the subject of Manganese Nodule mining from the deep sea-floor. To show how current this topic still is there's an interesting article by the BBC on "dark oxygen" emanating from this source. Here's a link to the article:
Saturday, 27 July 2024
The Original Web-site ...
... for Desmond Bagley is currently over on WordPress. You can access it with either:
... our custom URL for the last 21-years
or
desmondbagleyonline.wordpress.com
Thank you - it will be great to see you!
Friday, 31 May 2024
Spring 2024
How is the weather with you? In Bagley’s homeland it has been a wet and relatively cold Spring so far. What better time than to keep warm and dive into an exciting adventure in far off lands and escape from it all.
There are some nice deals on Desmond Bagley novels over at Amazon UK right now:
The High Citadel and Landslide double-book Kindle edition for just £2.99
The Snow Tiger and Night of Error double-book Kindle edition for just £2.99
The Vivero Letter Kindle edition for just £2.99
The Enemy Kindle edition for just £2.99
Interesting trivia …
Most of the published versions of Running Blind use a signature Land Rover 88 series 2A in the cover art, but of the incorrect type for the story …
Our heroes trek across the Icelandic hinterland using the Series 2 long-wheelbase – LWB – version, large enough for them to sleep in when necessary, whereas the cover art usually features the short-wheelbase version. Nowhere near large enough for purpose. Surprised the publishers and artists haven’t picked-up on this!
(Image courtesy of Pinterest, a great resource – All original rights acknowledged).
Saturday, 27 April 2024
Thin Ice book cover
We have to remember these new novels - Outback and Thin Ice - are not written by Desmond Bagley, they are only using a draft character he never actually published, however readers might be interested in this new, on-going series.
As promised here is the final book cover for Thin Ice:
Sadly this novel - on first appearances and I've not seen an ARC or proof copy - seems to be aping the famous novel of Bagley - Running Blind. There is a certain cheesiness about the tag-line. I doubt Bagley would ever have suggested his hero might "save the world".
Publication date has been moved back from August this year to October 24th.
Publication date has been moved back from August this year to October 24th.
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