All Ian Fleming’s short stories are collected on one volume, entitled Quantum of Solace. For the first time the stories from For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy & The Living Daylights are found within the covers of a single volume. You can order it from the outlets below: Amazon UK Amazon US
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With no more unfinished Ian Fleming manuscripts to publish, Glidrose Productions collected a couple of previously published short stories for a second posthumous book, first nearly two years after the author’s death. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 23rd June 1966 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for first edition copies on Abebooks The first story, Octopussy, […]
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Ian Fleming’s last full-length novel was published the year after his death. As was his custom he wrote the first draft while in Jamaica but cut down on his daily word count because of increasing ill health. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 1st April 1965 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for first edition copies on […]
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Best read after Thunderball and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the reader finds Bond with a personal score to settle with Blofeld after being widowed on his wedding day. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 26th March 1964 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for first edition copies on Abebooks With his life in tatters after Tracy […]
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This time not only does Bond get the girl, but he marries her too. The second book in a trilogy, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is best read after Thunderball. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 1st April 1963 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for first edition copies on Abebooks The story starts in Royale-les-Eaux with […]
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Ian Fleming experimented radically with The Spy Who Loved Me. The story is told in the first person by the heroine, Vivienne Michel, and James Bond only appears in the last third of the book. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 16th April 1962 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for first edition copies on Abebooks The […]
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Based on the screenplay for an aborted film project, Thunderball is notable for introducing SPECTRE to the series. The book is the first in what is sometimes known as the “Blofeld trilogy”. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 26th March 1956 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for first edition copies on Abebooks Fleming had been […]
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With For Your Eyes Only Ian Fleming broke with tradition. Rather than the regular annual novel his fans had become used to expecting he used the plotlines from an abandoned TV show for four of the stories and added a fifth. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 11th April 1960 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for […]
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Auric Goldfinger is a man who loves gold so much that he only makes love to women painted in gold, drives a gold Rolls Royce and hatches a scheme to rob America’s gold reserves at Fort Knox in order to corner the world bullion market. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 23rd March 1959 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover […]
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At the beginning of Dr No we find Bond being chastised by M for having nearly being killed at the end of From Russia, With Love. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 31st March 1958 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Pat Marriott Search for first edition copies on Abebooks His solution is to re-equip Bond with more a […]
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