Interview with Dr. Ian Kinane, Editor The International Journal of James Bond...
Bond scholars rejoice! The International Journal of James Bond Studies, is the first of its kind to focus on one of British literature’s most famous characters. This week we find out more from its...
View ArticleIan Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Interview with Mark Simmons
Mark Simmons comes from a family with a long tradition of service in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and in the 1970s he served in the Royal Marines. We caught up with him to talk about his latest...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with Craig Cabell, author of ‘Ian Fleming’s Secret War’
This week’s exclusive interview is with Craig Cabell. Craig has written two books about Ian Fleming’s experiences during WW2, and discusses the influences of Dennis Wheatley and Peter Fleming, as well...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with Illustrator Fay Dalton
The Folio Society’s Ian Fleming James Bond series continues with Diamonds Are Forever in the sixth volume in the collection, featuring the distinctive and stylish binding design inspired by the secret...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with Bobby Hiddleston on SHAKEN
This week to whet your whistle, Bobby Hiddleston from London’s Swift Bar discusses some of the inspirations that went into the new literary James Bond cocktail book, SHAKEN. What process did you take,...
View ArticleInterview with Lluis Abbou Planisi, Author of ‘James Bond: Behind the Tuxedo’
This week we welcome one of the youngest Bond experts on the planet, who has brought his own fan’s eye view to the page in his new book ‘James Bond: Behind the Tuxedo’. Originally from Spain, it was a...
View ArticleJames Bond at the Edinburgh Spy Week
Edinburgh Spy Week is in its sixth year of celebrating spy fiction, film and history. This year a Bond theme runs throughout the week (5th to 12th April), so three of the Spy Week team, Simon Cooke,...
View Article‘A Spy Is Born’ by Jeremy Duns – Ian Fleming and Dennis Wheatley
In A Spy Is Born, Jeremy Duns follows the trail of a largely forgotten writer through memoirs, newspaper archives, declassified M.I.5 files and dog-eared paperbacks to reveal the surprising literary...
View ArticleWhen Harry Met Cubby – Interview with Robert Sellers
Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and Harry Saltzman remain the most successful producing partnership in movie history and together they were responsible for the phenomenally successful James Bond series....
View ArticleThe Best A Bond Can Get – Interview with cover artist Michael Gillette
This month we are delighted to talk to the San Francisco based artist Michael Gillette, who created a beautiful set of officially licensed James Bond book covers for the Ian Fleming Centenary in 2008,...
View ArticleInterview with Mark Edlitz, Author of The Many Lives of James Bond
In this new book by Mark Edlitz, The Many Lives of James Bond offers the largest ever collection of original interviews with actors who have played Bond in different media, as well as in-depth...
View ArticleBirdwatcher: ‘The Real James Bond’
Never meet your heroes they say. Well, in some cases it’s no bad thing. For Ian Fleming, it was a thrill to meet ‘the real James Bond’, whose name many argue was the inspiration for his titular hero,...
View ArticleAmherst Villiers – The Man Who Supercharged Bond by Paul Kenny
After a chance encounter, Paul Kenny was driven to learn more about the man whose name is synonymous with Bond and his Bentley. We caught up with Paul to understand more about his journey to...
View ArticleIan Fleming and the Dieppe Raid – Interview with David O’Keefe
In his new book, Canadian historian David O’Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was, in fact, a mission, set up by Ian...
View ArticleThe Lost Adventures of James Bond by Mark Edlitz
The James Bond universe is greater than you might think. Even if you have seen all the movies and devoured Ian Fleming’s books, there is much more to discover about 007. In his new book, Mark Edlitz...
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