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I was lucky enough to attend the Royal World Première of SPECTRE on Monday night at the Royal Albert Hall, the third Bond première I’ve now attended. This time though with iPhone in hand I managed to get some shots of some of the cast members, including 007 himself, Daniel Craig. Note: all photos are […]

Tune in here at 5pm GMT for coverage of the SPECTRE premiere.

With Roger Moore’s new tour about to kick off on Sunday, Tim Mottorshead provides his thoughts on Moore’s previous tour. Photo: Sir Roger Moore in 1973 by Allan Warren. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. When I first heard of Sir Roger Moore’s tour, my initial thought (will he be coming to a venue nearby?) was quickly […]

While in the books and the early films James Bond was always a Rolex man, modern Bond wears Omega. When Pierce Brosnan stepped into the shoes of the world’s most famous secret agent he also slipped his wrist into the bracelet of an Omega timepiece. In Goldeneye Brosnan wore a blue-dialled quartz Seamaster Professional diving watch […]

What did James Bond do in the Second World War? I started thinking about this recently when I read William Boyd’s continuation novel Solo in which Bond, from the point of view of the late 1960s, experiences flashbacks to the war.

Readers of The James Bond Dossier have the chance to win one of three copies of a new book on Ian Fleming. Read on to learn how you can enter the competition. The Man With The Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters is published on 8th October. Edited by Fergus Fleming, nephew of Bond’s creator, The James Bond […]

Anthony Horowitz’s book Trigger Mortis is just the latest addition in a long line of James Bond continuation novels started following the death of Ian Fleming. Here we look at the authors of all the continuation novels to date. The continuation authors Kingsley Amis John Pearson John Gardner Raymond Benson Sebastian Faulks Jeffery Deaver William Boyd […]

The thing about the James Bond continuation novels is this. There comes a moment in each of the books when the author makes a misstep that jars. The result? As a reader I am taken out of the story completely. So, I wondered, how long it would be until the first misstep in Trigger Mortis, Anthony Horowitz’s latest […]

A close look at how and why Casino Royale turned the franchise around.

Recently I crunched box office numbers for all the James Bond movies released by Eon Productions to date. The idea was to go beyond the inflation-adjusted figures that have been reported before and to find out the most successful Bond films based on other than simply the box-office take. Skyfall was the first Bond film to earn […]