Bang-Bang, Kiss-Kiss
Christian Lorentzen: Bond, 3 December 2015
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
edited by Fergus Fleming.
Bloomsbury, 391 pp., £25, October 2015,978 1 4088 6547 7 Show More
edited by Fergus Fleming.
Bloomsbury, 391 pp., £25, October 2015,
Ian Fleming: A Personal Memoir
by Robert Harling.
Robson, 372 pp., £20, October 2015,978 84 95493 65 1 Show More
by Robert Harling.
Robson, 372 pp., £20, October 2015,
“... Bond bored Fleming to tears.’ And in his own largely boring posthumous memoir of Fleming, Robert Harling, who served with him in naval intelligence and later consulted on the typeface and design of the novels’ covers, says that Fleming told him over lunch: ‘Bond’s a bore. The discovery’s been creeping up on me for some time and now I know ... ”
