Ian Fleming

On Monday it was announced that the next James Bond novel, written by William Boyd, was to be called Solo. Boyd explained the title: saying “events conspire to make Bond go off on a self-appointed mission of his own, unannounced and without any authorization” and “as soon as I wrote down Solo on a sheet [...]

The Express takes a look at the phenomenon that started by Ian Fleming with the publication of Casino Royale in 1953 and which continues even today thanks to Eon Productions. The article adds nothing new to anyone with more than a casual interest in James Bond and is let down by a number of factual [...]

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, on April 13th 1953. Ian Fleming had written the book in 1952 while spending the winter at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, and just 4,728 copies were printed. The initial printing quickly sold out and today copies complete with original [...]

To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Casino Royale, which is marked on April 13th, “Fine Books and Collections” magazine features an article titled “The Birth of Bond” and has a photograph of Ian Fleming on the cover. You can buy a copy from the magazine’s website, which you can find here. Source: [...]

Just a few days prior to the publication of Thunderball Ian Fleming received the shock news that Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham sought an injunction preventing publication. McClory had read an advance copy of the novel in March 1961 and was infuriated to see that Fleming had based the story on a screenplay written by [...]

Being James Bond have published an interesting article about M’s name, following the revelation of the name of Judi Dench’s M at the end of Skyfall. The article notes that M’s full name was not revealed by Ian Fleming until The Man With The Golden Gun, his last novel, but takes us through each incarnation [...]

Back in October on the morning of the Skyfall premiere I interviewed Jon Gilbert of Adrian Harrington Rare Books about his Ian Fleming bibliography for MI6. Only that morning had he taken delivery of the books and so for an hour or so we sat and talked about Ian Fleming and the world of James [...]

Some time ago I was thinking about why it is that so many fans of James Bond dislike the continuation novels. While the Bond community seems to look forward to their release, they always seem to meet with a tepid reception and, sometimes, outright hostility. What brought this to mind was that I was re-reading [...]

New editions of Ian Fleming’s two non-fiction books are due to be published later this month in the United States and early April in the UK. Amazon.com Amazon.com   Amazon UK Amazon UK The Diamond Smugglers and Thrilling Cities are to be published by Thomas & Mercer on 26th March in the US, while Vintage Classics releases them [...]

In a previous article I discussed how the screenwriters for the James Bond series have, particularly in recent years, sometimes plundered Ian Fleming’s books for ideas that have been integrated into original stories.