Books

A quick look at The James Bond Archives by Taschen, which weighs in at nearly 7kg. Buy it direct from Amazon Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com

The James Bond audiobooks are now available as CDs from WF Howes, the UK’s leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks. The new editions feature the same striking cover designs as the digital editions from Audible, inspired by the work of artist Saul Bass. Each recording comes with a bonus interview with the celebrity narrator. Corinne Turner, MD […]

The Man With The Golden Gun finds James Bond in Beirut on the trail of Scaramanga after MI6 is unable to pin the murder of 002 on the highly paid hitman; as Miss Moneypenny tells 007, “they never found the bullet”. There Bond learns from Saida, a belly dancer, that after his colleague was shot in the neck she removed the bullet from […]

Fans of the James Bond books awaiting Anthony Horowitz’s 007 novel, to be published on 8th September this year and curently known as “Project One”, may be interested to learn the author has submitted the manuscript to Ian Fleming Publications. Horowitz made the following announcement on twitter yesterday: I have delivered the new James Bond […]

Reluctant as I am to admit it, Ian Fleming’s Bond novels were not terribly interesting when I first attempted to read them as an eleven year old. Fleming’s detailed verisimilitude – one of his key virtues when I returned to the books a few years later – and his interest in arcane research proved interminable. […]

The chance for a character in the next James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz and to be published in September next year proved to be the star lot of the night at an auction for the London Air Ambulance that raised a total of £120,000. Horowitz offered to not only name a character after the highest bidder, but […]

Before 007 appeared on the big screen Ian Fleming was involved in an aborted series for US television. When the project fell through many of the stories were reworked by Fleming  and published in the collection For Your Eyes Only.  At the beginning of last month Ian Fleming Publications announced a new James Bond novel to be written […]

The latest book in the Young Bond series is released today in the UK. Shoot To Kill was written by Steve Cole and follows on from the previous five books in the Young Bond universe written by Charlie Higson. To support the release of Shoot To Kill, Cole will be undertaking a tour of UK […]

With the new Young Bond book by Steve Cole just days away, a new poster for Shoot To Kill has now been uploaded to the official Young Bond Facebook page. The book will be released on 6th November and is avbailable to pre-order from Amazon UK now. Pre-order Shoot To Kill from Amazon UK  

The final episode from the BBC’s three part serialisation of some of Ian Fleming’s Sunday Times travelogue and book, Thrilling Cities, is now available to listen to on the BBC website. Following on from Tokyo and Hong Kong, episode three moves from the Far East to the United States, where Fleming visited Chicago and New […]