Ian Fleming’s Seven ‘Deadlier’ Sins: AVARICE
This month we kick off a 7-part series by 7 writers inspired by Ian Fleming’s ‘Seven Deadlier Sins’. In his foreword to the book The Seven Deadly Sins, published in 1962; Fleming declared that the...
View ArticleThe Peculiar Parallels of Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler
Article by Julian Parrott For writers so inextricably linked to their respective countries and literary genres, Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming had a lot in common. They forever changed the very...
View ArticleThrilling City: Retracing Ian Fleming’s Trip to Los Angeles
By Matthew Chernov “Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.” – Ian Fleming In 1959, at the behest of The Sunday Times’ features editor Leonard Russell,...
View ArticleInterview with Damian Stevenson, author of ‘The Ian Fleming Files’
This week we welcome Damian Stevenson in from the cold to talk about his two books about the fictional adventures of Ian Fleming: The Ian Fleming Files. 1. You have now written two books in ‘The Ian...
View Article‘Ian Fleming A Personal Memoir’ By Robert Harling
This is Robert Harling’s account of his close and enduring friendship with one of the twentieth century’s most iconic writers, a relationship forged in the Second World War that helped define the lives...
View Article‘Exceptionally non-boring’: Robert Harling’s Memoir of Ian Fleming
Review by Jonathan Hopson ‘Who was Robert Harling?’ asks Fiona McCarthy in her foreword. The answer is a man of mystery who played many roles – type designer, advertising executive, sailor, commando,...
View ArticleA Chance Encounter with ‘The Man with the Golden Pen’
On this day in 2000, the writer and actor Mark Burgess performed a one man show about James Bond’s creator Ian Fleming in Brighton called ‘Fleming’s Bond’. It was well received and toured the UK...
View Article‘The Visitor’s Book’ – The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller
When artists Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller died in their nineties, their friend Jon Lys Turner inherited an extensive personal archive. When he began to look through it, he discovered letters...
View ArticleIan Fleming On Screen: Inside the Making of ‘Come Before Winter’
By Matthew Chernov Like the iconic character he created, Ian Fleming has been depicted on screen many times over the years. In 2014, Dominic Cooper was cast in the title role of the BBC miniseries...
View ArticleThrilling City: Monte Carlo
We all know how Bond likes to clean out Casinos, but was Ian Fleming any good and what kind of gambler was he? In Casino Royale, Fleming pontificates on the role of luck in gambling: “Luck was a...
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