A few years ago, I was watching an old British comedy film starring Charlie Drake, a comedian and singer popular especially in the 1950s and...

Or, to rephrase the question, how many types of titles did Ian Fleming use? To give an example, Live and Let Die is what I will call a phra...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , Ian Fleming’s only children’s book (although I started reading the Bond books from the age of 12), gets a sequel. ...

Imagine a British James Bond poster. You’ll probably bring to mind the central figure of James Bond, facing us or body turned to the side, w...

It’s said that everyone has a novel in them. For James Bond, it’s a manual. In chapter 5 of Goldfinger we read that for the past year, Bond ...

Peter Hunt, the director of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) was keen to re-introduce some realism to the Bond series. ‘It’s one of t...

In between his secret missions, James Bond has time for some sport. We know from his high-stakes match with Goldfinger that he is a keen gol...