Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories (New Edition)
Romney Marsh Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Romney Marsh Times' very own secret agent Kyle Hill finds himself in Double-O-Heaven when he meets up with Lydd resident and worldwide James Bond authority Graham Rye. A childhood interest continues to grow in Graham Rye’s house in Lydd. Since 1979, the Surrey native has compiled and edited 007 Magazine, a periodical devoted to all things related to Ian Fleming’s fictional MI6 agent James...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
November 7, 1944—Thousands of miles from the eastern half of the country he had saved with critical intelligence coups, Soviet spy Richard Sorge —often considered the most important espionage agent of the 20th century—was executed in Tokyo for masterminding a ring that penetrated the highest levels of the Empire of the Rising Sun. Executed along with the Soviet for his part in the...
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Much has been made recently about Return to the Hundred Acre Wood , a new, authorized collection of Pooh stories (the first in eighty years) by David Benedictus, attempting to follow in the footsteps of the original author, A.A. Milne. The book introduces a new character, Lottie the Otter, who is full of herself and forgetful. Ultimately, the entire enterprise is ill-conceived and unsuccessful, so...
Luna students' room (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Dr No, it's one of the 007 James Bond's story, so it isn't difficult to follow the thread of a story. In the story there is the word "guano". I don't know about guano. In the story the guano is explained that it's the bird's droppings, full of chemicals, used as fertilizers and it's one of the most valuable product in the world. At first I can't imagine it. At the end of the story Dr No...
Double O Section (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier Available Today Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier , the official companion volume to Charlie Higson's series of James Bond novels about Bond's adventures as a schoolboy in the 1930s, is out today in the United Kingdom. It's available from Amazon.co.uk , and a signed edition is available in independent bookstores and directly from Ian Fleming Publications...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... On crime & thrillers: through a thriller-writer’s eyes: the life and work of Ian Fleming .
West End Lane Books' Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The great and the good gathered in central London this week for the Crime Writers' Association awards and you couldn't move without rubbing shoulders with TV and film cops, robbers and rapists, their creators and publishers. The key award, the CWA Gold Dagger, went to former Franciscan monk and barrister (honest!) William Brodrick, whose Whispered Name was hailed as a moving novel that stretches the...
gaskella (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Howards End is on the landing by Susan Hill That pesky Susan Hill! She's managed to set the book-blogging world alight with her latest - a memoir about reading the books in her house and the stories they are associated with. HEIOTL, as I shall abbreviate it to, has become a blogging hot topic - but in the nicest possible way... At the heart of HEIOTL is Hill's decision not to add to her house full...
Theirdoingwhatnow (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Just don't do Brandy, especially french brandy, its a sort of nice taste I guess, but in retrospect never satisfying as it keeps you awake all bloody night. I really don't know why I brought the muck, the late Ian Fleming was right, as all alcohol is in essence a Poison, and a hangover is the result of poisoning; Brandy is the worst, especially distilled in Oak Vats. Guess what, he's right. Am now...
ComicMix (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
James Bond Encyclopedia By John Cork and Collin Stutz 334 Pages, DK Publishing, $40 Nobody does it better. DK Publishing continues to put out the best assortment of visual reference books on pop culture and as we near the holidays, they keep pumping out one must have collection after another. Few literary figures have endured changing eras and tastes likes Ian Fleming’s spy, James Bond. Fleming...
fictions (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
This week over at the FPI blog I have been casting an eye over........... Harker issue 8 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Musetopia by J. Homersham PJANG 3 by by Rol Hirst, art by Andrew Cheverton, Nigel Lowrey, Davey Metcalfe James Bond Omnibus Volume 1 - Stories by Ian Fleming, adapted by Anthony Hern, Peter O’Donnell & Harry Gammidge. Art by John McLusky
BBC NEWS | View from the South Bank (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Eventually made it along to see the much acclaimed touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when it arrived at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow. Originally adapted for the stage by Adrian Noble almost a decade ago, it consistently tops friends and colleagues' lists of must see stage shows. Noble has done a fine job of honing down both the Ian Fleming story and the Roald Dahl script into a much less...
Alternative-Read.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Friday Finds I discovered this author while entering a competition to win some goodies! Dianne Castell, Kensington BRAVA Dianne Castell's Book LIst Her latest book Hot and Irresistible pictured above is due out in the UK November 4th this year and it looks like a very HOT and fun read. Visit her website here , where you can find out more about Dianne, sign up for her newsletter and also enter her competition...
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Further to the earlier post on the results on the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2009 . Attached are some further pictures from that indomitable photographer Ali Karim. The first photograph is of Harlan Coben and his son Will who is evidently as overjoyed as his father was to win the ITV3 Bestseller Dagger beating off some very stiff competition from the likes of Martina Cole , Alexander McCall Smith...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Coben picks up crime award, La Plante slates celeb authors 22.10.09 Philip Jones reporting in The Bookseller US crime writer Harlan Coben was named this week as ITV3 viewers' favourite crime genre author, beating Dick Francis, Alexander McCall Smith, Nicci French and Martina Cole after an online poll which lasted six weeks. But it was Lynda La Plante who stole the show with her views on celebrity authors....
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