Back in 2015, I explored the possible inspirations for the fictional seaside resort of Royale-les-Eaux, introduced in the first James Bond ...

Ian Fleming seems an unlikely champion of animal rights, but the evidence is there in his writing. That he was an animal-lover is clear from...

Books in which the authors talk to people about James Bond are like buses. You wait ages for one, then two show up at once. The first to ar...

Hear the words ‘America First’, ‘fake news’ and ‘agents of influence’, we would probably think of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sl...

During the summer, I went on an epic road-trip and retraced James Bond’s route in pursuit of Goldfinger from Le Touquet on the north coas...

Another titbit from the Sunday Times's Atticus archive: in July 1954, Ian Fleming wrote about a Madame Rybkin, a forbidding figure in Ru...

In Goldfinger (the novel, 1959), James Bond tells Colonel Smithers of the Bank of England that he thinks the old £5 was the most beautiful...