The Smallest News from Star Wars Celebration 2023
Star Wars Celebration has now wrapped up its four-day extravaganza in London, and publications are awash with all the biggest...
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A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Colonel Sun
A page into Colonel Sun and Kingsley Amis, writing under his pen name of Robert Markham, is already describing what...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Ian Fleming’s first short story collection, For Your Eyes Only, is a perfect introduction to the character of James Bond,...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading The Man with the Golden Gun
The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Sanditon. Weir of Hermiston. The great unfinished novels offer a certain mystique and allure; a...
Celebrating 25 Years of my Favourite Guilty Pleasure: Volcano
There’s something comforting about watching a disaster movie from 25 years ago. Sure, people might be dying and a city’s...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading You Only Live Twice
As with most of Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories, You Only Live Twice begins in medias res, but for the...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The opening chapter of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is called “Seascape with Figures”, and it’s hard to think of...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading The Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming doesn’t want you to read The Spy Who Loved Me. He blocked a paperback edition being published during...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Thunderball
Nine books into the series, Ian Fleming gains a sense of humour. The James Bond novels up to this point...
A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading For Your Eyes Only
The eighth book in the original Ian Fleming run of James Bond adventures differs from the previous seven. Instead of...
