William Plomer's début novel, Turbott Wolfe , had a profound effect on Ian Fleming. Fleming read the book in 1926 as a teenager and wa...

My bedtime reading at the moment is David V Picker's memoir about his time in the film industry, Musts, Maybes, and Nevers: A Book Abo...

As the authors of two recent introductions to the novel (Nick Stone in the Penguin edition and Douglas Kennedy for the Vintage edition...

During the 2012 London Olympics, I wondered which sports James Bond might have been tempted to watch after parachuting into the stadium . Ba...

An obituary in the Times caught my eye recently. It marked the death, aged 95, of Lieutenant-Commander Stevenson (Steven) Moir Mackenzie, wh...

Last Thursday I was at the British Film Institute (BFI) at London's Southbank to see film composer David Arnold introduce You Only ...

A recent visit to the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, reminded me of the varied connections between Roald Dahl and I...