Thanks Nico, hadn't spotted that. 🤜🤛

And the photography is perfect. You're behind the screen, watching Graham watch the screen, and watching Crawford watching Graham, and the set design with the white and all the straight lines is 👌 Comparing that to how they shot the same scene in Red Dragon tells you everything about Mann vs Ratner.

Cinema's best figuring-it-out scene. "Haven't you, my man?"

A reader is worth more than the 17p I get from an Amazon deal, so not bad news. Hope you love it or hate it, but don't find it ordinary.

Weirdos will survive the dismal tide

I thought they missed an opportunity in Skyfall to cast a former Bond actor in the Raoul Silva role. Pierce Brosnan playing a psychotic former 00 agent would have raised some fun questions around identity.

Surely Bond is no different to Batman? Audiences would clearly accept a new Bond as being a different take, as they have done with every new Bond. The series has never been consistent on this - Lazenby's reference to "the other guy," versus Moore's terse response to mention of his late wife.

Oh, nice, lovely to hear 🙏

Going to apply this marketing lesson to all of my books. Henceforth, you can participate in a reading experience of each one for free, with only a small one-time possession fee*.

* one-time for each reading experience. T&Cs apply.

Me too. Went to his London event last week and had a chat with him and Joe Thomas over a pint afterwards. I remained cool at all times.

He's the only critic I know who does this. Older books are always new to someone, even critics. Good on him.

Congrats Marco, great to see

Oh, Thatcher was way worse. I have something of a soft spot for Rachman as a character, and might return to him in some fuller way.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Elwyn!

Ha, well you wouldn't be the first person to find me unreadable... (there is a French translation coming in October, though, just in case)

Ah, superb. Good to hear, Nico. Hope it works for you 🤜🤛

Superb. Astonishing book. Congrats!

Cheers Laura, appreciate that very much 🤜🤛

I can recommend blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home for international customers. The listed price of the book includes worldwide postage, and they're nothing to do with the Venetian groom.