A website about the craftsmanlike thriller novelist Desmond Bagley
HarperCollins announce that they will publish ‘Domino Island’, a lost thriller by Desmond Bagley, on 9th May 2019 [originally scheduled for publication on 16th May 2019]. The full-length thriller involves murder and corruption on a Caribbean island before a plot twist leads to an all-action finale.
The Bagley Brief takes a look at The Mackintosh Man, the 1973 film adaptation of Bagley's 1971 novel The Freedom Trap. A little background information and a look at filming locations in the UK, Ireland and Malta.
A Guernsey memory of Desmond Bagley and his arbalest crossbow, a weapon mentioned in his 1964 novel High Citadel.
The staff at the Guille-Allés Library in St. Peter Port, Guernsey recently discovered a number archived books from the library of Desmond Bagley, 34 years after they were donated by his widow Joan Bagley in 1984.
The Life and Work of Desmond Bagley exhibition opened at the Guille-Allés Library in St. Peter Port, Guernsey on Thursday 10th May and will remain on display until Saturday 9th June 2018.
A new Desmond Bagley archive collection has been established at the Priaulx Library in Guernsey. Designed to complement the Desmond Bagley collection held at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center in Boston U.S.A., the new collection will provide a link between the Bailiwick and Boston giving islanders and visitors a chance to view Bagley material in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Today, Friday 11th May, Guernsey’s eighth Blue Plaque was unveiled by the Bailiff Sir Richard John Collas to honour the thriller writer Desmond Bagley and his wife Joan Bagley. The Blue Plaque was issued under the auspices of Guernsey Museums and is only the second on the island to recognise an author.
Desmond Bagley, Strängnäs, Iwan Morelius and the Husqvarna M/40 9x19mm parabellum pistol. References in Bagley's novels The Tightrope Men and The Enemy.
Desmond Bagley’s article about the Channel Island of Guernsey, ‘A little peace of Britain’, published in February 1980, in the magazine of The British Tourist Authority, 'In Britain', is today republished after 38 years.
The Guille-Allès Library in St Peter Port, Guernsey has been confirmed as the venue for both a talk and exhibition about Desmond Bagley, launching on Thursday 10th May 2018, as part of the sixth Guernsey Literary Festival.
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