Bohemia in Miniature: Wivenhoe and Richard Chopping
by MW Bewick It is only a matter of time. Sooner or later, if you get talking to the locals in Wivenhoe, Essex, someone will namedrop Richard Chopping: “Oh, Dicky and Denis,” they will say. “You don’t...
View ArticleThe Peculiar Parallels of Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler
Article by Julian Parrott For writers so inextricably linked to their respective countries and literary genres, Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming had a lot in common. They forever changed the very...
View ArticleThe Spy Who Remained in the Cold or OSS117 vs. 007
Article by David Craggs. Much has been written about Ian Lancaster Fleming. The enduring success of the world’s most famous secret agent has ensured that his creator continues to generate unprecedented...
View ArticleA Chance Encounter with ‘The Man with the Golden Pen’
On this day in 2000, the writer and actor Mark Burgess performed a one man show about James Bond’s creator Ian Fleming in Brighton called ‘Fleming’s Bond’. It was well received and toured the UK...
View ArticleThe Saga of Ian Fleming’s Supposedly ‘Last Interview’
Article by Revelator It’s one of the most obscure mysteries in Bondology. In July 1965 a “magazine for men” named Saga published what it offensively called “Ian Fleming’s Last Interview: How to Take...
View ArticleRichard Burton on Ian Fleming’s ‘You Only Live Twice’
Today is the anniversary of the death of the great Richard Burton. Once considered for the role of James Bond, he was a voracious reader and one wonders what he thought of Ian Fleming. The closest we...
View ArticleMade in Chelsea – Where Did Literary James Bond Really Live?
Article by David Salter James Bond lived in Chelsea, a pleasant and, these days very expensive, area south-west of Central London. Beyond that the information provided by Ian Fleming is pretty blurred....
View ArticleMike Ripley’s ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’
KISS KISS, BANG BANG is a reader’s history of the boom in British thrillers 1953-1975 (roughly, Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed), a period when Britain lost an Empire, was demoted in terms of...
View ArticleSAMLA Conference: From Russia With Love at 60
This year’s SAMLA Conference takes place between November 3-5 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia and this year, the topic is ‘From Russia with Love At 60: Serious Spy novel or popular...
View ArticleJames Bond Exhibition at Jack Barclay Bentley
Jack Barclay Bentley, the world’s oldest Bentley dealership, is hosting a free James Bond exhibition from 11-16 June in partnership with Peter Harrington Rare Books. The Mayfair dealership will play...
View ArticleLive and Let Die – The Next Bond Release from The Folio Society
When You Were Young and Your Heart Was an Open Book…. Ian Fleming’s spy takes on flesh-eating sharks and a diabolical criminal mastermind in Live and Let Die, the eighth volume in Folio’s James Bond...
View Article‘Ian Fleming – The Notes’ by John Pearson
Newly published by The Queen Anne Press, are the notes that John Pearson made in 1965 while researching The Life of Ian Fleming. They chart not only Fleming’s life – with details that never made it...
View ArticleThe Man with the Golden Gun by the Folio Society
The twelfth volume in The Folio Society’s spectacular and best-selling James Bond series, The Man with the Golden Gun sees the world’s greatest super spy tackle his most dangerous assignment. For The...
View ArticleCall for Papers: SAMLA 2022 ‘The Changing Worlds of James Bond’
2022 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the film Dr. No and the publication of Ian Fleming’s ninth James Bond novel, The Spy Who Loved Me. Both these works represent watershed moments for the character...
View ArticleBond Comes Home: IFP to Publish under own imprint
Today, Wednesday 5 October, ‘James Bond Day’: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (IFPL) announces plans to publish Ian Fleming’s books under its own imprint – a move that marks an exciting future for 007....
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