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Thursday, 27 April 2017

Kingsman returns with a very Bondian trailer

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Judging by the trailer , released this week, Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Golden Circle looks likely to contain as many nods to the B...
Friday, 21 April 2017

Maxwell Knight - the real M

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When Ian Fleming came to write the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale , in 1952, he turned to people he knew for inspiration for some ...
Saturday, 8 April 2017

References to the older Bond in the Young Bond adventure Strike Lightning

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As we gear up for the publication of Red Nemesis , the next Young Bond novel and the final one, at least from Steve Cole, I thought it wa...
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...