Making James Bond a Woman Was Pitched Before 1962’s ‘Dr. No’ Got Made; Ian Fleming Met Sean Connery and Said: ‘I Want an Elegant Man, Not This Roughneck’ ...

In Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of author Ian Fleming, James Bond arrives on the scene rather late. But there’s a good reason to delay focusing on the secret agent Fleming created: His ...

Maybe we can put it like this: Ian Fleming wrote the poetry, and James Bond—that bastard, that black daffodil—burned it. Ian Fleming - The Complete Man. By Nicholas Shakespeare.

In their heyday, the Beatles and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels marked the United Kingdom’s greatest exports. In 1964 alone, the Fab Four sold 25 million records in the United States.

Writing novels about the British superspy James Bond brought the author Ian Fleming immediate success. Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, was released in 1952; in the 12 years to follow, Fleming ...

A 1920s art deco seafront house in Kent, once owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming as well as playwright Noel Coward, is up ...

If you're browsing the magazine section at your local bookstore, you should 100 percent grab a copy of the latest print edition of Men's Journal. And, after that, if you're ready to totally rethink ...

A stunning seafront cottage where Ian Fleming is believed to have written several of his James Bond novels is up for sale – ...

In Nicholas Shakespeare’s upcoming biography of Bond author Ian Fleming, ... Lashana Lynch became the first woman to own the 007 title in the 2021 James Bond tentpole “No Time to Die,” but ...

Patrick Gibson has been heavily rumored to be the next Bond in the franchise after he was cast as James Bond in the new ...

Many of his Bond stories were written at Mermaid Cottage between 1951 and 1957. Among them is Moonraker, which took ...