Noel Coward was one of the 20th Century’s greatest artist’s in every sense of the word. He was also one of Ian Fleming’s closest friends and each played an important role in each other’s ...
https://literary007.com/2019/10/06/master-and-commander-noel-coward-and-ian-fleming/
Article by James Abbott “No, no, no, a thousand times, no.” – Noel Coward, on being asked to play Dr. No in the film version of Ian Fleming’s novel. Author Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was oft...
https://literary007.com/2017/03/31/dr-fu-manchu-and-dr-no-more-than-a-family-resemblance/
This week, our special guest is the actor and playwright Mark Burgess. Mark has an esteemed association with 007 as the man who brought the one-man play about Ian Fleming to the stage and also ha...
https://literary007.com/2016/09/14/exclusive-interview-with-mark-burgess-playwright-actor/
On this day in 2000, the writer and actor Mark Burgess performed a one man show about James Bond’s creator Ian Fleming in Brighton called ‘Fleming’s Bond’. It was well received and toure...
https://literary007.com/2015/11/16/a-chance-encounter-with-the-man-with-the-golden-pen/
The Man with the Golden Typewriter by Fergus Fleming, contains numerous unpublished letters by Ian Fleming, which have been sourced from the Fleming Archive, the Cape Archive and private collect...
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,...
Shortly after handing over an early manuscript of Moonraker to William Plomer, Ian Fleming told him: “In my opinion, it isn’t much of a book, but it should make a good film.” How wrong he...
https://literary007.com/2014/03/01/moonraker-the-film-that-never-was/
Francis Bacon provides an interesting footnote into how Richard Chopping ended up creating the James Bond dust jackets for Ian Fleming; it was at one of Bacon’s art exhibitions that Ann Flemin...
https://literary007.com/2014/01/29/richard-chopping-and-francis-bacon/
Talk of the Devil is a collection of rarely-seen journalism and other writing by Ian Fleming. It belongs to a special edition of his complete works published in 2008 by Queen Anne Press to comme...
https://literary007.com/2013/09/24/literary-talk-of-the-devil/