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Sunday, 22 February 2015

Bond, Brooke Bond: when James Bond sold tea

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A recent article on the MI6 - The Home of James Bond 007 website about the James Bond-influenced Milk Tray television adverts in the UK rem...
Friday, 13 February 2015

From Thunderbird to Thunderball to Bond: what Ann called Ian

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Classic 1956 advertisement for the Thunderbird In an article published in the Spectator in April 1958, Ian Fleming revealed to readers t...
Friday, 6 February 2015

Could Peter O'Toole have been the first cinematic James Bond?

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Derek Coombs The name Derek Coombs is probably not familiar to most James Bond fans, but the former British member of parliament and fou...
Sunday, 1 February 2015

A little bit of Bond in every spy novel

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A few weeks ago I read Charles Cumming's spy novel, The Trinity Six (2011, HarperCollins). The book follows academic Sam Gaddis on a ...
Saturday, 24 January 2015

Winston Churchill in the James Bond books

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This week saw the launch of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill , who died on 24th January 1965...
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Sunday, 18 January 2015

There is only one cover: the contemporary cover design of the Bond books

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I'm rather a fan of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. The books are superb page-turners featuring a tough, indestructible hero, and p...
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Sunday, 11 January 2015

North By Northwest: the Bond connections

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Scenes from North By Northwest (left) and From Russia With Love (right) As I was flicking through the novel of Thunderball (1961) the ot...
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