Tom Colgan is our special guest on episode 44 of the Spybary Spy Podcast with host Shane Whaley Tom is an Editorial Director of Berkley Books which is an imprint of Penguin Random House. Over a thirty year (actually 33 but who's counting?) publishing career he has worked with many authors including Tom Clancy, Mark...

This week, Spybrary Spy Podcast Host Shane Whaley welcomes author and travel writer August Thomas to speak about her debut novel, Liar’s Candle.   Introduced to the podcast by Professor Penny Fielding, August has lived and studied in Scotland and Turkey, where she pursued a Master’s Degree on a Fulbright Scholarship. August began writing Liar’s...

007 is dead, that's what the book marketers are screaming at the legion of 007 fans who are eagerly awaiting the second James Bond novel ‘Forever and a Day.' Are the publicity boys and girls teasing us? Is 007 really dead? Alas this is not a review and as its likely at time of blogging...

Today’s guest finds himself embedded deep in Communist-controlled East Berlin, and has asked his handler to leave him 5 of his favorite spy books at their Dead Drop location in Friedrichshain Park. What will he choose to help him cope with life undercover? Author, Spy Fan and Political Editor of the Sunday Times, Tim Shipman,...

If you are at all a reader of non-fiction related to the world of espionage, the name Ben Macintyre is likely a familiar one. He is, after all, the author of such books as Agent Zigzag and the superb Kim Philby biography A Spy Among Friends. Back in 2008, however, he covered the most famous...

Spybrary at Spy Con 2018 On Episode 39, Spybrary Spy Podcast host Shane Whaley brings you interviews from the inaugural Spy Con. (For more information on the Spybrary Shelf of Fame Vote see links mentioned below and here.)     Shane caught up with former Spybrary Podcast guests Lt Col Michael Brady (author of Into...

Of course, episode 007 of the Spybrary Spy Podcast with Shane Whaley had to feature the one and only James Bond. Rather than focus on the movies, Shane decided to chat more about the wonderful books of Ian Fleming and the literary James Bond. We sought out the man behind the Artistic Licence Renewed website...

Which celebrities do we know of that read spy books? Here is England football legend (still 4th highest England goal scorer) Jimmy Greaves reading Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die back in the 60s. A quality photograph! Got a photo of a celebrity with a spy book? Send it in to shane@spybrary.com and I will...

So what is Spy Con 2018? Billed as ‘Spy Con celebrates espionage and Spy Fiction in all media from literature to television and film. Come be a special agent for the weekend!' Spybrary Host Shane Whaley was keen to find out more, so he got chatting with one of the organizers of Spy Con Matt...

We talk Mick Herron, Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, John Le Carre and many more on Dead Drop 5 Today we launch a new series for Spybrary, it is called DEAD DROP 5. Today’s guest is deep under cover, behind the wall embedded in Communist East Berlin, he has asked his SIS handler to stash 5...