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Ian Fleming

June 2024

  • James Bond composite

    ‘Bond’s gone woke!’ Charlie Higson on the row around his ‘metrosexual’ 007

    When Charlie Higson published a new Bond novel last year, online critics accused him of turning 007 into a ‘woke, libtard snowflake’ ... But he has always been a complicated character, argues the author

March 2024

  • Licensed to kill? Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Idris Elba and James Martin.

    Keoghan, Madden, James Martin: who should be James Bond, if Aaron Taylor-Johnson is out?

    Idris Elba has been waiting in the wings for years but perhaps the time has come for Matt Smith, Henry Golding … or a certain TV chef

February 2024

  • TASCHEN's 'Dr. No' | The birth of the Bond cinematic universe

    Dr No: Sean Connery behind the scenes on the first James Bond film – in pictures

    Released in 1962, Dr No starred Connery as the British secret agent in a groundbreaking action film that became a worldwide hit. It also established one of the longest-running and highest-grossing film franchises. Here we go behind the scenes, with Connery, Ursula Andress and author Ian Fleming

January 2024

  • A fantasy painting of a skeleton in jeans and a hat sitting under a tree with masks that illustrates  Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Reaper Man

    Family of Discworld illustrator seek wealthy patron to conserve legacy of ‘one of the great artists of our time’

    Relatives of Josh Kirby, who also produced artwork for Star Wars and many well-known authors, hope to keep the sci-fi and horror artist’s collection together for future generations

October 2023

  • A black and white photograph of Ian Fleming sitting at his desk.

    Observer book of the week
    Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare review – the other international man of mystery

    An elegant and painstakingly researched biography of the 007 author attempts to strip away the novels to reveal the intriguing figure beneath

August 2023

  • Florence Pugh, right, as Charlie, with Alexander Skarsgård in the TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 female spies in fiction

    Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass

April 2023

  • Composite of 21 disabled or disfigured villains

    The Audio Long Read
    The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope – podcast

    For centuries, fictional narratives have used outer difference to telegraph inner monstrosity. As someone who uses a wheelchair, I’ve learned you can’t just edit out a few slurs or bad words to fix this – it’s often baked deep into the story. By Jan Grue

March 2023

  • composite of 21 disabled villains for jan grue long read

    The long read
    The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope

    The long read: For centuries, fictional narratives have used outer difference to telegraph inner monstrosity. As someone who uses a wheelchair, I’ve learned you can’t just edit out a few slurs or bad words to fix this – it’s often baked deep into the story

February 2023

  • Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time to Die.

    James Bond novels to be reissued with racial references removed

    The changes to the spy novels include the removal of the N-word and omitting references to the ethnicity of minor characters

September 2022

  • Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville

    Agent behind James Bond spy Vesper Lynd given new role in UK-Poland relations

    Wartime operative Krystyna Skarbek, lauded by Churchill, will serve as a symbol of the cultural ties between the allies

June 2022

  • BFI Chair's Dinner<br>Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson awarded BFI Fellowships at the BFI Chair's Dinner at Claridge's in London. Picture date: Tuesday June 28, 2022. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Suzan Moore/PA Wire

    Next Bond film will be ‘complete reinvention’ but won’t shoot for ‘at least two years’

  • Anthony Horowitz.

    With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz review – 007 in a polished page-turner

April 2022

  • Moonraker, 1979

    Ian Fleming’s lost James Bond screenplay reveals a very different 007

    With no Moneypenny and no M, a previously unpublished script reveals the author’s original ideas for Moonraker

January 2022

  • Paul Gallico.

    James Bond books dedicated to Paul Gallico among star lots at library auction

    Books owned by The Snow Goose author up for sale this week include Ian Fleming first editions inscribed for his former colleague

November 2021

  • Daniel Craig as James Bond

    The name’s not Bond: where next for 007?

  • Sean Bean and Pierce Brosnan in James Bond: GoldenEye (1995)

    Licensed to thrill: Kim Sherwood set to ‘expand the James Bond universe’

October 2021

  • Clothes in a wardrobe

    Brief letters
    Shorts that are anything but short-lived

    Brief letters: Clothing | High wages | Tory party conference | Cinema’s greatest duels | Newcastle United

September 2021

  • The best Bond of all? Daniel Craig in his fifth 007 film.

    ‘Absolute beast’: critics go wild for No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last Bond film

    Despite a few dissenting voices bemoaning a bloated plot, film reviewers largely agree that this is the 007 blockbuster to tempt audiences back into cinemas
  • Daniel Craig.

    No Time to Die review – Daniel Craig dispatches James Bond with panache, rage – and cuddles

    The long-awaited 25th outing for Ian Fleming’s superspy is a weird and self-aware epic with audacious surprises up its sleeve
  • Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006)

    Daniel Craig has given us ‘woke’ James Bond, says Charlie Higson

    Young Bond author highlights how much the spy has changed since Ian Fleming created him in 1953
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