goldeneye – Literary 007

Article by Mike Ripley I first met Reg Gadney five years ago, at a rather hectic Christmas party for regular freelance contributors to The Guardian. I knew the name, of course, from numerous exce...

https://literary007.com/2017/09/07/how-james-bond-came-to-paint-my-portrait-by-mike-ripley/

Article by ©Julian Parrott, 2017 There isn’t much of Ian Fleming’s Jamaica left these days. Perhaps there never really was. Fleming’s Jamaica was only a momentary period in his own nostalg...

https://literary007.com/2017/08/31/literary-007-tourism-inside-ian-flemings-goldeneye/

On July 4,1952, Ian Fleming wrote ‘Pleasure Islands?’ for The Spectator shortly after completing the draft of Casino Royale, in which he discusses race relations in Jamaica. Article by Re...

https://literary007.com/2016/07/04/ian-fleming-on-jamaica-and-race-relations/

Article by Edward Biddulph If you were asked to name the places with which Ian Fleming is most closely associated, you would almost certainly put Goldeneye, Fleming’s the winter home in Jamaica...

https://literary007.com/2016/01/13/a-tour-through-ian-flemings-oxfordshire/

Article by David A. Reinhardt, Member – Board of Directors, The Ian Fleming Foundation Originally written for the James Bond Classic Charity Golf Tournament for UNICEF, held on Monday June 11th...

https://literary007.com/2015/06/10/the-real-james-bond-and-birds-of-the-west-indies/

Words by Revelator After reading Mathew Parker’s book it will be impossible to over-estimate the importance of Jamaica to James Bond. Beginning with Fleming’s wartime discovery of the island,...

https://literary007.com/2015/03/11/dr-jamaica-calling-goldeneye-where-bond-was-born-ian-flemings-jamaica-by-matthew-parker/

By Jon Pettigrew This Two Act play neatly book ends the start of the James Bond books and the beginning of the end for Ian Fleming. He dies young, but his alter ego lives forever. He only liv...

https://literary007.com/2015/03/05/michael-chance-makes-ian-fleming-come-alive-in-one-man-show/

We are privileged to welcome Matthew Parker in from the cold, to discuss his latest book about Ian Fleming and his beloved second home in Jamaica. Matthew is in the unique position as someone who...

https://literary007.com/2014/10/08/exclusive-interview-with-matthew-parker-author-of-goldeneye-where-bond-was-born/

7:30am – Get up with the birds, bathe in the ocean before breakfast. Come back for a proper breakfast with scrambled eggs and sit in the garden until 10am. 10am – Sit in the bedroom and typ...

https://literary007.com/2013/09/14/a-day-in-the-life-of-ian-fleming-at-goldeneye/

Of these once best-selling volumes of action pulp, “Dr. No,” “Live and Let Die,” “The Man With the Golden Gun” and the short story “Octopussy” are largely or partly set in Jamaica...

https://literary007.com/2013/08/30/goldeneyes-midas-touch/