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Thursday, 30 March 2017

Bond references galore in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

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I don’t know if you’ve seen Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010), but when I watched it the other day (in the interest of re...
Friday, 24 March 2017

The Book Collector - the Ian Fleming special

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Ian Fleming was something of a polymath. He is of course most famous for the creation of James Bond, but he had other passions. One of these...
Thursday, 16 March 2017

Ian Fleming named in Royal Society of Literature survey

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It's official: Ian Fleming's James Bond novels are literature. In an Ipsos MORI poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Liter...
Friday, 10 March 2017

Building a James Bond stamp collection

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Earlier this month, Swiss Post issued a set of stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the Schilthorn/Piz Gloria restaurant. Though not stri...
Thursday, 2 March 2017

Did E Phillips Oppenheim invent James Bond?

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Who do the following two literary characters remind you of? The first is a resourceful, tough, sardonic man of action. He's attractive t...
Thursday, 23 February 2017

Dear 007: Bill Adler's letters to James Bond

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The American writer Bill Adler is well known for his compilations of letters to famous people and organisations. His books include Dear Beat...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

James Bond in a Caribbean mystery

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With Young Bond author Charlie Higson on writing duties, it was inevitable that ITV's 2013 adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Caribbe...