James Bond books by Ian Fleming Read more about Casino Royale . Live And Let Die (1954) Although Casino Royale was not published until later that year, Fleming wrote his second novel during his annual winter holiday in Jamaica in early 1953. 007 is sent to New York to investigate Mr Big. There he teams up with CIA agent Felix Leiter, under whose guidance he gets to see the jazz clubs and dance halls of 1950s Harlem. From New York they travel to Florida and then, after Felix is almost killed after being fed to the sharks, Bond heads to Jamaica. This is the first of several stories that take place in Flemingâs favourite place and provides the opportunity for Bond to don a wetsuit and scuba gear and explore the submarine world in which Ian Fleming was so interested. Read more about Live And Let Die . Moonraker (1955) After the exotic locations of the first two books, Moonraker was far more modestly set in London and Kent. Ian Fleming knew this area of England well, owning a weekend cottage at St Margaretâs Bay, outside Dover.

The plot concerns a wealthy industrialist, Sir Hugo Drax, who is financing the Moonraker missile. The project is intended to provide Britain with an independent strategic nuclear capability. When a Ministry of Supply officer working on the project is murdered Bond is sent to investigate. He soon learns that Draxâs motives are not as philanthropic as they first appear. While the locations are not as exciting as the previous books, Fleming does provide a gripping bridge game. However, readers used to overseas adventures wrote to complain they felt short-changed by the locations. Fleming took the criticism to heart and with the exception of one short story, The Property of a Lady, all subsequent Bond adventures took place overseas. Read more about Moonraker . Diamonds Are Forever (1956) Ian Fleming sent Bond is back to the United States in his fourth book. Working undercover as a diamond smuggler, Bond again teams up with Felix Leiter, now working for Pinkertonâs. They travel in Leiterâs âStudillacâ from New York to Saratoga, where Bond has been told to bet on a rigged horse race for his payment for the smuggled diamonds.

When that fails he is directed to Las Vegas where he bets on a rigged blackjack game instead. But when he continues to gamble, against explicit instructions from the Spangled Mob, Bond is taken prisoner in a Western ghost town with its own private railway. Interestingly, in Diamonds Are Forever Fleming names the ghost town Spectreville. The book isnât Fleming at his best, but the reader gets another good look at 1950s America. Read more about Diamonds Are Forever . From Russia, With Love (1957) With his fifth book, Ian Fleming really wanted to step up his game. A pure Cold War spy thriller, From Russia, With Love features Bondâs attempts at getting his hands on Russiaâs Spektor cipher machine. Note the use again of a variation on the word âspectreâ. Bond doesnât even appear until a third of the way through the book and the start of the novel, focusing on the Russian plot, sometimes drags. But once Bond is introduced Istanbul and then the Orient Express provide colourful backdrops to the story. From Russia, With Love was the book that helped James Bond become established in the United States.

When Life published an article about JFKâs reading habits , it appeared on his list of ten favourite books. Fleming couldnât have asked for better publicity and US sales of all his books surged. Read more about From Russia, With Love . Dr No (1958) After his attempt at a straight espionage thriller, Dr No turned out to be rather more fantastic. Fleming based the book on an unused screenplay he had written for a proposed TV show. The book was famously attacked by Paul Johnson in the New Statesman in a review titled “Sex, Snobbery and Sadism”. Once again Bond is sent to Jamaica where he looks into the disappearance of local station chief John Strangways and his assistant. Bond links the disappearance with their investigation into the activities of Dr Julius No and sets sail for Dr Noâs private island, Crab Key, recognisable as the archetypal Bond villain lair. There he meets a beautiful girl, faces a fire-breathing âdragonâ, is held captive in a âmink lined prisonâ and dines with Dr No, who reveals he is in the pay of Russia.

Finally Bond must endure an obstacle course that ends with him face to face with a giant squid. Read more about Dr No . Goldfinger (1959) Goldfinger is probably the most iconic Bond title of all, mainly because of the 1964 film that united James Bond with the Aston Martin DB5. After a chance encounter in with Auric Goldfinger in Miami, M sends Bond to investigate his suspected gold smuggling activities and links to SMERSH. After beating Goldfinger at golf, Bond trails him across Europe but is kidnapped and flown to the United States. There Goldfinger reveals his plan to steal the Federal gold reserves from Fort Knox. Ian Fleming seems to run out of steam towards the end of the book, which feels a bit rushed. But Goldfinger starts well, with Bond meditating on a recently completed mission at Miami Airport. The round of golf is good too, easily matching Flemingâs descriptions of card games. Read more about Goldfinger . For Your Eyes Only (1960) With For Your Eyes Only Ian Fleming broke with tradition. Rather than the regular annual novel his fans had become used to expecting he used the plotlines from an abandoned TV show for four of the stories and added a fifth.

Three of the stories are more or less traditional Bond stories in short form. These are âFrom A View to a Killâ, âFor Your Eyes Onlyâ and âRisicoâ. The remainder, âQuantum of Solaceâ and âThe Hildebrand Rarityâ are something of oddities that allowed Fleming to experiment with his writing. The former was first published in the November 1959 edition of Modern Woman’s Magazine. While the short story collection disappointed many when first published, they work well and showcase a different style to Fleming. Read more about For Your Eyes Only . Thunderball (1961) Based on the screenplay for an aborted film project, Thunderball is notable for introducing SPECTRE to the series. The book is the first in what is sometimes known as the âBlofeld trilogyâ. After hijacking an experimental plane with two atomic bombs, SPECTRE attempts to blackmail the West into paying a large ransom. It is a great story, which still has resonance today, but landed Ian Fleming in trouble.

Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham had also contributed to the screenplay on which he had based Thunderball. Although McClory and Whittingham were unable to prevent publication, they sued Fleming for plagiarism. The stress of the 1963 court case caused Fleming to have a heart attack and instead the two parties reached a settlement. Subsequent editions of Thunderball acknowledge McClory and Whittinghamâs contribution to the film scripts. The court battle is thought to be a contributing factor to his death at the age of 56, but of course he smoked and drank heavily. McClory was also awarded the movie rights to Thunderball, which caused the case to rumble on for years. Although EON Productions teamed up with McClory for the film, McClory later used his rights to the film scripts to make Never Say Never Again and continued to threaten another Bond film until his death in 2006. It was finally ended in 2013 when EON Productions obtained the full rights to Thunderball from McCloryâs heirs. Read more about Thunderball . The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) Ian Fleming experimented radically with The Spy Who Loved Me.

The story is told in the first person by the heroine, Vivienne Michel, and James Bond only appears in the last third of the book. Again, it showcases a different side of Flemingâs writing but received an extremely poor reception. As a result Fleming asked his publisher not to issue reprints or a paperback edition. He later explained that he wrote The Spy Who Loved Me because of his dismay of learning his books, written for adults, were being read by the young and wanted to write a cautionary tale. Of course, he may have been bored with writing a new thriller year after year and wanted to try his hand at something different. But at the end Vivienne receives a lecture about the dangers of all men like Bond, good and bad. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963) After The Spy Who Loved Me, Flemingâs next book was a much more straightforward Bond adventure. The second book in the Blofeld trilogy sees Bond meet his future wife, learn the location of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and foil SPECTREâs plan to decimate Britainâs agriculture using biological agents. Bond is also married, but his wife murdered before they even start their honeymoon.

Featuring some spectacular alpine action the plot is a little absurd, but ahead of its time in using biological warfare. There are some good moments in the book and 007 gets to spend Christmas Day with M. Amusingly Blofeld shares Ian Fleming‘s date of birth. Read more about On Her Majesty’s Secret Service . You Only Live Twice (1964) In the third novel of the Blofeld trilogy M sends Bond to Tokyo on what he considers an impossible a diplomatic mission. Still in mourning for his wife, James Bond is drinking and gambling heavily, a shadow of his former self. On the verge of sacking him, M instead decides to give Bond one last chance. He must persuade the Japanese secret service to allow Britain access to decrypted Russian radio transmissions. Bondâs mission soon takes on a personal element though. The book features some great observation gained from Flemingâs trip there in 1959 although Japan and its culture is viewed through the lens of a rather cynical westerner. The book was the last to be published in Ian Flemingâs lifetime. Read more about You Only Live Twice .

The Man With The Golden Gun (1965) Ian Flemingâs last full-length novel was published the year after his death. As was his custom he wrote the first draft while in Jamaica but cut down on his daily word count because of increasing ill health. The novel had yet to go through the usual rewriting and editing process during which much of the detail would be added, resulting in a slightly unsatisfying story. On the other hand The Man With The Golden Gun is set in Flemingâs beloved Jamaica. Despite his ill health, Flemingâs love for the island still comes through, but the villain is a letdown and not fully fleshed out. Read more about The Man With The Golden Gun . Octopussy & The Living Daylights (1966) With no more unfinished Ian Fleming manuscripts to publish, Glidrose Productions collected a couple of previously published short stories for a second posthumous book. The first of these, âOctopussyâ, is far from a typical Bond adventure and features a character, much like Fleming himself, living on the north shore of Jamaica and numbing himself with alcohol as he waits out his remaining days.

His life is turned upside down with the arrival of James Bond at his door. The story previously appeared in the Daily Express in October 1965. On the other hand âThe Living Daylightsâ is probably the best Fleming short. First published in the Sunday Times in February 1962, the story is set in West Berlin before the construction of the wall and concerns Bondâs tense wait for a defector to make the run across the wasteland that separates east from west. The Russians have been tipped off and have a sniper waiting on the other side. In 1967 a third story, âThe Property of a Ladyâ was added to paperback editions. It had first appeared in Sothebyâs annual journal, The Ivory Hammer, in November 1963. Finally, in 2002, a fourth short was added to the collection. “007 in New York” first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune (as âAgent 007 in New Yorkâ) in October 1963 and features James Bondâs own recipe for scrambled eggs.

It also appeared in the US edition of Thrilling Cities to balance Flemingâs harsh comments about New York. Ian Fleming - Biography - IMDb Ian Fleming Biography Showing all 46 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (27) | Personal Quotes (9) | Salary (1) Overview (4) 6' (1.83 m) Mini Bio (2) Born into a wealthy and influential English family, Ian Fleming spent his early years attending top British schools such as Eton and Sandhurst military academy. He took to writing while schooling in Kitzbuhel, Austria, and upon failing the entrance requirements for Foreign Service joined the news agency Reuters as a journalist -- winning the respect of his peers for his coverage of a "show trial" in Russia of several Royal Engineers on espionage charges. Fleming briefly worked in the financial sector for the family bank, but just prior to the Second World War, was recruited into British Naval Intelligence where he excelled, shortly achieving the rank of Commander.

When the war ended, Fleming retired to Jamaica where he built a house called "Goldeneye," took up writing full-time and created the character that would make him famous -- British Secret Service agent James Bond, in a novel called "Casino Royale." Fleming spent the rest of his life writing and traveling the world, but as his Bond character reached new heights of popularity on movie screens, Fleming was in ailing health. He died of a heart attack (his second) in England in August 1964 at the age of 56. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges Spouse (1) ( 24 March 1952 - 12 August 1964) (his death) (1 child) Trade Mark (2) Cigarette (in holder) perched between fingers of his right hand The female characters of his stories have double-entendre names Trivia (27) Half-brother of cellist Amaryllis Fleming . Featured in the novel "James Bond: The Unauthorized Biography of 007" by John Pearson .

This novel, which is considered part of the Bond canon by some, suggests that Bond was real and that Fleming wrote stories based on Bond's real-life adventures as a strange way of hiding classified information "in plain sight." Cousin of Christopher Lee . He died on his son's birthday (12th of August 1964). Casper died of a drug overdose in Jamaica in 1974. Anne survived them both, and died in 1981. Her son by her first marriage, Raymond Arthur O'Neill, is now the 4th Baron O'Neill. His wife, Anne Geraldine Charteris, was the granddaughter of the 9th Earl of Wemyss, and had been previously married to Shane O'Neill, 3rd Lord O'Neill (she was his widow) and then to Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, whom she divorced to marry Ian. Anne and Ian had one son, Casper Robert Fleming, born 12th of August 1952. The largest collection of his novels is located at the Lilly Library on the Indiana University campus, Bloomington, IN.

His James Bond novels and story elements were originally used in the films, beginning with Dr. No (1962). Until Casino Royale (2006), the last James Bond movie to use elements from Fleming's stories was Licence to Kill (1989). His home in Jamaica was named "Goldeneye" and was the source of the name of the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995). His elder brother Peter Fleming (a travel writer of some note in the 1930s) was married until his death to Celia Johnson ( Brief Encounter (1945)). His nieces Kate Fleming (now Grimond) and Lucy Fleming (also an actress) are now his literary heirs. Supposedly modeled the character of James Bond after Merlin Minshall, a man who worked for Mr. Fleming during WWII as a spy. Raymond Chandler was a fan of the James Bond novels and urged Fleming to continue writing them in the mid-1950s. His nephew, Nichol Fleming, wrote an adventure story in the Bond style titled "Counter Paradise" in 1968. Distantly related by marriage to Leslie Charteris .

He initially objected to the casting of Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No (1962) because he felt that Connery was too "unrefined". He later changed his mind after seeing Connery's performance in the finished film. Is portrayed by Jason Connery in The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990). Jason is the son of Sean Connery , who became famous for playing James Bond in the 1960s. Fleming's health had never been strong, and it was not helped by his lifestyle. At 38, complaining of chest pains, he had informed a startled doctor that he consumed 70 cigarettes and a bottle of gin a day. In 1961 he had a massive heart attack, which was followed by a series of increasingly debilitating illnesses, including a severe chest infection and pleurisy. Finally, on 11 August 1964--the night before his son's 12th birthday--he collapsed. He died the next morning on his son's birthday. Film stars who were an influence on his vision of James Bond included David Niven , Rex Harrison , Cary Grant and Hoagy Carmichael .

He was a bird-watcher and supposedly named "James Bond" after an ornithologist of the same name (See James Bond ) whose book, "The Birds of the West Indies", he had read. He borrowed the name because it was the "dullest" name he could think of. The book title "Goldeneye" is also a birding reference, as goldeneyes are a type of duck. As a member of British Intelligence during WWII, he worked with the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the predecessor to the CIA. He contributed his experience and expertise to the OSS and later helped the Americans set up the CIA. His scrapbook was sold at a charity auction in December 1992 by his step-daughter, Fionn O'Neill. It was auctioned at Sotheby's in New Bond Street, which was used as a location in Octopussy (1983). Reportedly it was acquired for £30,000 by Fleming's nieces Lucy, Kate and Nichol. Proceeds went to the London Library. Geoffrey Jenkins collaborated with him on a James Bond story between 1957-64.

Glidrose Publishers contracted Jenkins to develop the story into a full novel after Fleming died in 1964. The book was entitled "Per Fine Ounce" but has never been available to readers and published. Supposedly based the character of James Bond on real-life spy Sidney Reilly. Was a huge fan of Studebakers. One of his last cars was a Studebaker Avanti. The reason he excelled at his studies was to please his mother, a beautiful but cold woman who never showed him any affection. In 1995 the gold-plated Royal typewriter on which he hammered out many of his 007 novels was auctioned by Christie's of London for £50,000 to a buyer who still remains anonymous. This is the most expensive typewriter to date. According to the National Geographic, CNN and the BBC, he patterned James Bond after Dusko Popov , a Serbian double agent nicknamed Tricycle. Popov was a worthy predecessor to the fictional spy James Bond. He was noted as a womanizer and was dating many famous actresses (some of them were Hollywood stars).

He also stayed at the best hotels, ate at top restaurants, visited smart casinos and was a bon vivant. While Fleming worked in British naval intelligence during WWII, he was detailed to trail this charismatic spy, who eventually became a double agent for the British (among other intelligence work, he provided information to the FBI that the Japanese were planning to attack Pearl Harbor). Upon his death, his remains were interred at St. Andrew's Churchyard in Sevenhampton, Gloucestershire, England. Personal Quotes (9) I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day. [mid-1950s] My James Bond novels are really for a very specialized, limited market. I am not counting the great unwashed public and do not expect them to fancy anything I write. I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting like "Peregrine Maltravers". Exotic things would happen to and around him but he would be a neutral figure--an anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a government department.

[interview in The Daily Express, 1962] The target of my books lay somewhere between the solar plexus and the upper thigh. Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. [on how he wrote "Casino Royale"] Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, "Casino Royale" dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before, I might have despaired. [on James Bond] Apart from the fact that he wears the same clothes that I wear, he and I really have little in common. I do rather envy him his blondes and his efficiency, but I can't say I much like the chap. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. [his last words, reportedly to the ambulance attendants] Awfully sorry to trouble you chaps.

Salary (1) Anthony Horowitz is writing new James Bond novel from Ian Fleming idea | Books | The Guardian Anthony Horowitz Anthony Horowitz is writing new James Bond novel from Ian Fleming idea Murder on Wheels, the first novel to be adapted from an original Ian Fleming treatment since his death, may see Bond foil Russian plans to scupper a Formula One race in the 50s Anthony Horowitz: ‘Having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod Wednesday 1 October 2014 19.01 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 1 October 2014 19.55 EDT Close This article is 2 years old “Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them,” Ian Fleming , a man similarly inclined, wrote in 1954’s Live and Let Die. Now, 60 years on, an unpublished story by the late author in which James Bond takes on the Russians and gets involved in a Formula One race, is to form the basis for a new 007 novel by Anthony Horowitz .

Murder on Wheels was written by Fleming in the 50s, as one of several episode treatments for a Bond TV series which fell through because the films took over. Many of the plots were turned into short stories including Octopussy, The Living Daylights and For Your Eyes Only, but a few outlines were never published, says Fleming’s great-niece Jessie Grimond. Now, 50 years since the author’s death, the Fleming estate has shown the material to Horowitz as the basis for a new novel. Horowitz, the screenwriter of series including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War as well as the author of the hit teenage spy series Alex Rider and authorised takes on Sherlock Holmes , is the latest in a line of writers to don the mantle of Fleming with the estate’s blessing. Predecessors include Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd, whose novels have variously seen Bond take on a heroin influx into Britain in the 60s, leap through time to the present day, and try to “single-handedly stop a civil war” in a small west African nation. Horowitz, however, is the first writer to have been given unpublished material to work with.

“Given that Anthony is as brilliant a screenwriter as he is a novelist, we thought it would be exciting to see what he would do with one [of the episodes],” said Grimond. Horowitz plumped for a treatment called Murder on Wheels, which sees Bond on a mission at the Nürburgring racing circuit in Germany. “It’s such a good idea. Ian loved cars and driving – he was friends with Stirling Moss , the Lewis Hamilton of the time,” said Fleming’s niece, Lucy Fleming. “Bond’s mission is to make sure a Russian plot to scupper Moss’s race by forcing him to crash is intercepted … there’s a fantastic race Bond gets involved in.” Bond is well known for his love of cars. In Casino Royale, Fleming wrote: “Bond’s car was his only personal hobby.

One of the last of the 4½-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers , he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage throughout the war … Bond drove it hard and well and with an almost sensual pleasure.” Fleming’s work will serve as the “starting point” for Horowitz’s novel, said the Fleming estate, with the book – currently known as Project One – to include the characters M and Miss Moneypenny and be set in the 50s. It will be published next September by Orion in the UK and HarperCollins in the US. “It’s no secret that Ian Fleming’s extraordinary character has had a profound influence on my life, so when the estate approached me to write a new James Bond novel how could I possibly refuse?” said Horowitz, a lifelong Bond fan. “It’s a huge challenge – more difficult even than Sherlock Holmes in some ways – but having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.” Malcolm Edwards, group publisher at Orion, described Bond and Horowitz as “a match made in publishing heaven”.

He added: “Anthony is a writer of exceptional skill and I have no doubt he will deliver a book that will resonate and delight Bond fans around the globe.” According to the Fleming estate, more than 100 million Bond books have been sold worldwide. Fleming himself wrote 14 Bond books – his last 007 title, Octopussy and The Living Daylights, was published in 1966. As well as Faulks, Deaver and Boyd, authors including Kingsley Amis and John Gardner have also written official Bond novels. The authorised Bond title will be the latest in a series of fresh takes on much-loved characters, from Sophie Hannah’s riff on Poirot, The Monogram Murders , to Horowitz’s Sherlock Holmes novel, House of Silk . James Bond books | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Fleming Ian Fleming at work After serving in the British Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, Fleming was inspired to write a novel about an international spy. Fleming bragged to his friends about how good he believed the book would be. Fleming chose a bland but masculine name for his main character and gave the character many of his own personal tastes including golf and gambling.

He began writing his first Bond novel in 1952 in Jamaica over two months to take his mind off his upcoming wedding and pregnant fiancé. Casino Royale was published in 1953 to moderate reviews but great sales in the UK. Fleming, who's full time job was a Forgeign Manager for a UK newspaper, used his yearly 3-month holiday to write each Bond book resulting in 1954's Live and Let Die , 1955's Moonraker , 1956's Diamonds Are Forever , 1957's From Russia with Love , 1958's Dr. No , 1959's Goldfinger , 1960's For Your Eyes Only -- a collection of short Bond stories -- 1961's Thunderball , 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me , 1963's On Her Magesty's Secret Service , and 1964's You Only Live Twice . Fleming was a heavy drinker and smoker and suffered heart disease. He suffered his first heart attack in 1961 and a fatal heart attack in August 1964.

His final two books, 1965's The Man with the Golden Gun and 1966's collection of short stories Octopussy and The Living Daylights were published posthumously. Gildrose Publications Kingsley Amis With the success and fortune found by Casino Royale , Fleming purchased the small publication company Gildrose Publications, which had only published his novel. Gildrose, latered renamed Ian Fleming Publications in 1999 continues to license the Bond franchise and expand the literary catalogue. Gildrose planned on having several authors use the pen name "Robert Markham" to continue to scribe more Bond books but the idea was scrapped after only one work, Colonel Sun , was written by English author and Bond fan Kingsley Amis in 1968. Amis also wrote a short story about an elderly Bond returning in a time of crisis, but was refused permission to publish it. Gildrose produced two novelizations to the EON films, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me and James Bond and Moonraker in 1977 and 1979, respectively written by Christopher Wood .

John Gardner Gardner After a thirteen year hiatus of original content (and recently after the death of Anne Charteris, Fleming's wife) Gildrose contracted John Gardner to scribe several Bond novels and to bring Bond in the modern 1980s. In 1981 Licence Renewed was published to mediocre critical response and sales. Nevertheless Gardner wrote a total of 16 Bond novels, including two novelizations of feature films. In 1996 Gardner published his last Bond book, COLD . Raymond Benson Benson After Gardner's departure Raymond Benson was contracted by Gildrose to continue the Bond story. Benson, an American, was accused by fans of Americanizing the series but was also hailed as returning to Fleming's roots more than Gardner had managed. Benson wrote six original Bond novels, starting with 1997's Zero Minus Ten . Benson's novels, like Gardner's, featured James Bond in a modern year. He also wrote three film novelizations and three Bond short stories. In 2002 Benson left the Bond series. He is, to date, the only continuation author to release any short stories.

Sebastian Faulks 2000's Ian Fleming Publications asked British author Sebastian Faulks to pen a new Bond novel in the early 2000's. Faulks delivered a novel set in the 1960's in 2008 titled Devil May Care . Faulks chose to not continue and was replaced with American author Jeffery Deaver who penned Carte Blanche in 2011. In 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that William Boyd would pen the thirty-eighth Bond book in time for the 60th literary anniversary. Solo was released in September 2013 in the UK and October 2013 in the US. In 2014 it was announced that Anthony Horowitz would write the thirty-ninth Bond novel. He would be using previously unreleased material by Fleming as an inspiration. This would take the form of several plot treatments for a James Bond television series that was never made and ended up turning most of the plots into the short stories that formed the collections For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights . The book titled Trigger Mortis was released in September 2015.

James Bond - Ian Fleming Ian Fleming • Slim build, scar down right cheek and on left shoulder • Signs of plastic surgery on back of right hand • All-round athlete; expert pistol shot, boxer • Knife-thrower; does not use disguises Languages: French and German Smokes heavily (NB: special cigarettes with three gold bands); vices: drink, but not to excess, and women. Not thought to accept bribes.’ From Russia with Love Read more A HERO IS BORN Inspired by his experiences in Naval Intelligence during the Second World War and his passion for travelling the world, Ian Fleming sat down at his typewriter at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, to write ‘the spy story to end all spy stories’. The result was Casino Royale which was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK in 1953. Through twelve original novels and nine short stories, Fleming’s James Bond became the most famous fictional spy, spanning both literature and cinema.

× Where It All Began ‘You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face.’ You Only Live Twice Read more BOND’S ORIGINS Ian Fleming’s James Bond was born in the early 1920s to a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix. Tragically, when he was only eleven years old, both James’s mother and father died in a climbing accident whilst on holiday in France. After this devastating misfortune, James lived with his aunt Charmian in Kent and went to school at Eton College. After only two halves there he was expelled due to an alleged incident with one of the boys’ maids, and he saw out the rest of his education at his father’s school, Fettes, in Scotland. At the age of seventeen, an old friend of his father’s sent a letter of introduction for Bond to the Admiralty, where he began work shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. During the War, Bond was enrolled in the secret service and undertook missions abroad for several years before being reassigned to London in 1949.

Shortly after his return to London, James Bond was awarded a licence to kill and from that moment on became known as Agent 007. × Read more A war in the shadows Following the close of the Second World War, the building tension of the forthcoming Cold War brought with it a renewed emphasis on global espionage. This was a war with a frontline populated by spies rather than soldiers and the atmosphere of uncertainty during the ensuing nuclear arms race was fertile ground for stories of clandestine villainy and secret heroism. This led to a rise in the popularity of spy fiction through the 50s and 60s, and Ian Fleming’s British hero soon became one of the most recognisable figures of this ‘spy-mania’. 007 first proved popular with readers in Britain but was soon celebrated in Europe and the United States, where a glowing endorsement for From Russia with Love from President John F. Kennedy helped boost Fleming’s agent to international fame. × Read more FORMIDABLE FOES Fleming pitted Bond against a host of dangerous enemies including the Russian anti-espionage department, SMERSH, and the global criminal organisation, SPECTRE – The Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion.

Fleming’s sinister villains became characters as unforgettable as Bond, from his first adversary Le Chiffre, to the avaricious Goldfinger and of course Bond’s recurring nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. × Read more LEADING LADIES Each of Fleming’s novels features a strong female counterpart for Bond, sometimes as paramour, sometimes as femme fatale – sometimes both. Readers came to expect a vivacious leading lady at Bond’s side and found her in the form of memorable characters like Pussy Galore, Vesper Lynd and Honey Rider. × The World Of James Bond ‘There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent’ Live and Let Die Read more LUXURY AND TRAVEL Along with battling malevolent villains and romancing beautiful women, James Bond became synonymous with the lavish and exotic. In post-war Britain where most people were restricted by rationing and austerity, Fleming’s novels transported readers to warmer climates and introduced them to sensations they had never experienced.

Bond adopted Fleming’s own penchant for supreme cuisine, the best champagnes, the finest tailoring and nail-biting pursuits such as skiing and scuba diving, offering an escape from the grey and frugal world of 1950s Britain. × Read more EON’S 007 Ian Fleming’s sixth James Bond book, Dr No, was filmed by legendary producers Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1962, starring Sean Connery as 007. Since then the James Bond films, now produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, make up the longest running franchise in film history. × Read more BOND LIVES ON Since Ian Fleming’s death in 1964, several writers have been invited to continue James Bond’s legacy in literature. Beginning in 1968 with Kingsley Amis’s Colonel Sun, Bond has gone on to appear in books by John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz. There are also two series of Young Bond adventures for teenagers written by Charlie Higson and Steve Cole, and old and new Bond stories have been adapted for comic books.

× Continuation Bond Ian Fleming's original series of twelve novels and two short story collections featuring Agent 007. Discover where Bond began. Before the man became the legend, before the boy became the man. Follow James Bond's teenage years in the 1930s through these young adult adventures by Charlie Higson and Steve Cole. Bond brought to life through exciting new comic book releases, collections of remastered 1950s newspaper strips and the Young Bond graphic novel of SilverFin. The secret diaries following the adventures of James Bond's right-hand woman. Beginning with Kingsley Amis in 1968 and with the most recent novel published in 2015 by Anthony Horowitz, discover the new 007 adventures by celebrated authors following in the footsteps of Fleming. Casino Royale In the novel that introduced James Bond to the world, Ian Fleming’s agent 007 is dispatched to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux. Written by Ian Fleming Read more Live and Let Die James Bond is not a superstitious man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big.

Written by Ian Fleming Read more Moonraker As the super patriot and war veteran who’s bankrolling Britain’s top-secret Moonraker rocket program, Sir Hugo Drax should be above reproach. So why does he cheat at cards? Written by Ian Fleming Read more Diamonds Are Forever An international diamond-smuggling pipeline has opened up and the British Treasury wants to know who’s controlling it. Written by Ian Fleming Read more From Russia with Love James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller. Written by Ian Fleming Read more Dr. No Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. His encounter with Dr No will prove otherwise. Written by Ian Fleming Read more Goldfinger Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England-though his wealth can’t be found in banks. Bond is tasked with investigating the mogul’s secret source.

Written by Ian Fleming Read more For Your Eyes Only A departure from the full-length James Bond novels published in 1960, For Your Eyes Only is a stunning collection of five stories that sends 007 to Bermuda, Berlin, and beyond, and places him in the dangerous company of adversaries of all varieties. Written by Ian Fleming Read more Thunderball Upon M’s insistence, James Bond takes a two-week respite in a secluded health spa. Amidst the tranquil environs, Bond stumbles upon the beginning of a trail which leads to SPECTRE. Written by Ian Fleming Read more The Spy Who Loved Me Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making–a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart. Written by Ian Fleming Read more On Her Majesty’s Secret Service In the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s trail has gone cold-and so has 007’s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa ‘Tracy’ di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger.

Written by Ian Fleming Read more You Only Live Twice The tragic end to James Bond’s last mission – courtesy of Ernst Stavro Blofeld – has left 007 a broken man and of little use to the British Secret Service. Written by Ian Fleming Read more The Man with the Golden Gun Bond may have a licence to kill, but ‘Pistols’ Scaramanga has a talent for it. He’s a KGB-trained assassin who’s left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. Written by Ian Fleming Read more Octopussy & The Living Daylights The last collection of James Bond adventures from Ian Fleming published in 1966, Octopussy and The Living Daylights features four tales of intrigue that push 007 to the limit and find the secret agent questioning where he can go from there… Written by Ian Fleming Read more The SPECTRE Trilogy SPECTRE is the ultimate threat; the merciless international terrorist organisation led by James Bond’s nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Written by Ian Fleming Read more Casino Royale Illustrated Collector’s Edition This edition from The Folio Society features lavish illustrations from artist Fay Dalton, with high quality cloth binding and slipcase.

James Bond is sent to Royale-Les-Eaux in order to bankrupt an enemy operative at the baccarat table in Ian Fleming’s debut thriller. Written by Ian Fleming Read more From Russia with Love Illustrated Collector’s Edition Named as Ian Fleming’s finest novel in numerous polls, and described by the author as, ‘In many respects, my best book’, this nail-biting thriller sees 007 ensnared by an elaborate plot devised by the Soviet counter-intelligence agency, SMERSH.

Question: What is the title of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel?
Answer: Casino Royale