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Slow Horses, the very British hit about misfit spies, is back and its budget is showing
The BBC passed on the show, according to Apple TV’s Europe boss. It was a mistake worthy of Slough House
Slow Horses returns: ‘Readers know by now I’m capable of killing off whoever is in danger,’ says creator Mick Herron
Mick Herron knows every character he jettisons spells the end for an actor too. That’s life, he says, as the Apple TV+ series returns and a new Slough House novel arrives
New crime fiction: cynical pitch-black comedy reinvigorates the spy fiction genre
New novels by Mick Herron, Nicola Upson, Seishi Yokomizo, Janice Hallett and Rav Grewal-Kök
Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands
Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’
Mick Herron: the joyous juxtaposition of disgraced spies and cranky office politics
The auther of the award-winning Slough House series says he doesn’t dream about high-powered dinner parties but prefers the idea of a lock-in somewhere, with all writers welcome
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Donald Clarke: If authors can keep an open mind about appearances, so can readers
Mick Jagger: ‘It was so long ago I can’t remember. I didn’t know what I was doing’
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Mick Herron interview: the Irish Times Books podcast
Described as his generation’s John le Carré, he has created the bestselling Slough House series
‘I sometimes feel like I’m the only spy writer who never worked for the Secret Service’
Mick Herron has been dubbed the le Carré of his generation for his Slough House series
Mick Herron: jogging bottoms and a clean shirt
There are two very different sides to being – and talking about being – an author, says the creator of the acclaimed Jackson Lamb series
Slow Horses and Whitehall Masters
Mick Herron’s superb thriller is set in the world of broken-down MI5 operatives Rule Number One is ‘cover your arse’
Finding a way in: Mick Herron on Spook Street
The Jackson Lamb spy series author, described by The Irish Times as heir to John le Carré and Len Deighton, on the world, more dead-end than deadly, he has created
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