First Time Reading

A page into Colonel Sun and Kingsley Amis, writing under his pen name of Robert Markham, is already describing what...

Ian Fleming’s first short story collection, For Your Eyes Only, is a perfect introduction to the character of James Bond,...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Sanditon. Weir of Hermiston. The great unfinished novels offer a certain mystique and allure; a...

As with most of Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories, You Only Live Twice begins in medias res, but for the...

The opening chapter of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is called “Seascape with Figures”, and it’s hard to think of...

Ian Fleming doesn’t want you to read The Spy Who Loved Me. He blocked a paperback edition being published during...

Nine books into the series, Ian Fleming gains a sense of humour. The James Bond novels up to this point...

The eighth book in the original Ian Fleming run of James Bond adventures differs from the previous seven. Instead of...

Goldfinger marks a concerted effort by Ian Fleming to humanise his literary spy, James Bond. Despite what some say about...

Keeping Bond’s fate a mystery after the cliffhanger ending of From Russia with Love, Dr No begins with M arriving...

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