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  1. Books

    James Bond Encyclopedia cover artwork revealed

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-20

    Cover artwork (click here to view) has been revealed for the latest edition of the James Bond Encylopedia by John Cork and Collin Stutz.

    The book, which is due for release on 19 October, is currently available to pre-order from Amazon.com for a discounted price off the $40.00 retail listing.

    Literary 007 fans will recall that the original edition of the book was first published in late 2007 and included details on all of the James Bond films through 2006’s Casino Royale. This new edition also adds in Daniel Craig’s Quantum of Solace.

    The original publisher’s blurb follows:

    Created in full collaboration with Eon Productions, producers of the Bond movies, this illustrated celebration of the world’s most famous super-spy examines every aspect of 007’s world, with information on his history, style, and tastes, along with A-Z guides to his adversaries, allies, gadgets, cars, and, of course, the ever-glamorous Bond girls.

    John Cork and Collin Stutz authorities on every aspect of the James Bond story, wrote the acclaimed book on the James Bond phenomenon, James Bond: The Legacy, have produced, written and directed 30 special feature documentaries for MGM’s DVD releases of James Bond films, and contributed to The Ultimate James Bond: An Interactive Dossier CD-Rom for MGM Interactive.

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  2. Books / Sebastian Faulks

    Faulks hopes for Devil May Care adaptation

    By Matt Weston on 2009-07-19

    The James Bond International Fan Club relays a report from the Evening Standard last month in which novelist Sebastian Faulks reveals he’d like to see his bestselling 007 novel Devil May Care adapted for the screen.

    'Devil May Care'

    Devil May Care

    “One lives in hope,” the author said, adding, “Daniel Craig is a good Bond but I thought there was a little too much running and jumping in [Quantum of Solace] and the romance went out of it. It’s time to bring that back.”

    Eon Productions had previously ruled out an adaptation of Devil May Care. “We love the book, but because it is set in the 1960s, we haven’t considered making it in the near future,” producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson said at the time.

    Faulks responded, “I would have thought that if you could move Casino Royale from the 1950s you could move Devil May Care from the sixties. But Eon know what they are doing.”

    Reports surfaced last month that Eon are eying the Middle Eastern drug trade – a key element of Devil May Care – as a possible storyline for the twenty-third Bond film, which is currently in development.

    Devil May Care was released in paperback in May. The James Bond International Fan Club claims Penguin are hoping the paperback edition will outsell last year’s hardcover. The publisher are also said to be looking into new ways to market Ian Fleming’s original Bond novels.

    Keep turning to the CommanderBond.net main page – as well as our new Twitter feed – for all the latest literary James Bond news and coverage.

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  3. Books / Charlie Higson

    Double or Die limited edition hardback released in Germany

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-18
    Original 'Double or Die (GoldenBoy)' Edition

    Original Double or Die (GoldenBoy) Edition

    A special hardback edition of Charlie Higson’s third Young James Bond novel, Double or Die, has been released in Germany.

    The Young Bond Dossier reports that this special edition of the book from publisher Arena Verlag, titled GoldenBoy, is limited to 10,000 copies.

    Higson’s third Young Bond adventure was originally released as a paperback alongside the UK release back in January 2007. This new edition follows the recent hardback releases of both SilverFin and By Royal Command.

    Young Bond fans can now order the GoldenBoy hardback from Amazon.de, where it retails for 14.95 €:

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    Ian Fleming’s Thrilling Cities and The Diamond Smugglers now shipping

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-16

    Literary 007 fans will be pleased to hear that the recent reprints of two of Ian Fleming’s non-James Bond novels, Thrilling Cities and The Diamond Smugglers, are now shipping from the Ian Fleming Publications Ltd website.

    Unavailable for many years, these works of non-fiction are reissued with introductions by Jan Morris and Fergus Fleming and presented in an all-new limited edition hardback format.

    Ian Fleming's 'Thrilling Cities'

    Ian Fleming’s Thrilling Cities

    Thrilling Cities is a collection of travel pieces originally written in 1959 and 1960 for The Sunday Times. In it, Fleming turns his inimitable eye on 14 separate cities. The fleshpots of Macao, Tokyo and Hamburg feature alongside explorations of the Mafia culture in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. At every stop he uncovers fresh nuggets of interest. In Naples, for example, he wangles an introduction to Lucky Luciano, the notorious Chicago gangster of Capone-era fame. Written in the days when a De Havilland Comet took 12 hours to fly from London to Beirut, this is a rich and enjoyable tapestry of the world as it once was – a must for lovers of travel and great writing.

    Ian Fleming's 'The Diamond Smugglers'

    Ian Fleming’s The Diamond Smugglers

    The Diamond Smugglers is a book that starts with a phone call. ‘One day in April 1957,’ Fleming writes, ‘I had just answered a letter from an expert in unarmed combat writing from a cover address in Mexico City, and I was thanking a fan in Chile, when my telephone rang…” The voice at the other end asks if he’d like an assignment. Within weeks he is in Tangier speaking to “John Blaize”, an ex-MI5 agent now contracted by a diamond firm to break an international smuggling ring. Fleming picks up the trail in a unique piece of investigative journalism that combines treasure and travel, cunning and criminality – the elements that had always attracted the creator of James Bond.

    CommanderBond.net recently took a ‘look back’ at both of these Fleming books: The Diamond Smugglers | Thrilling Cities.

    Keep watching the CBn main page—and our brand new Twitter feed—for the most up-to-date literary James Bond coverage on the web.

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  5. Books

    2009 CWA Dagger Award winners announced

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-16

    According to the official IanFleming.com website, the CWA Dagger Awards were handed out last night in London at the Tiger Tiger nightspot.

    The CWA Dagger Awards celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing, and are the longest established literary awards in the UK. These premier awards in crime fiction are recognised internationally as a mark of excellence.

    The shortlist for the 2009 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award is yet to be announced, however. This particular award and the £2,000 prize will be handed out on 21 October 2009.

    The broadest definition of the thriller novel is used for eligible books; these can be set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction and/or action/adventure stories. Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller – that ‘one simply has to turn the page’; this is one of the main characteristics that the judges will be looking for. A book is eligible if it was first published in the UK in English between 1 June 2008 and 31 May 2009.

    The judging panel for the 2009 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award will consist of The Moneypenny Diaries author Samantha Weinberg, Sarah Fairbairn, Philip Gooden, Rob Williams and David Wilson. The panel is chaired by Corinne Turner, Managing Director of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.

    For additional details, visit the official website.

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  6. Books / Charlie Higson

    Charlie Higson's top ten James Bond books

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-13

    The Young Bond Dossier alerts us to a rather fun new update on Amazon.co.uk from author Charlie Higson.

    As part of Amazon’s Author’s Choice series, the Young Bond creator has compiled together a listing of his top ten James Bond novels and related books.

    The majority of the titles listed are original Ian Fleming adventures, but also included are Henry Chancellor’s James Bond: The Man and His World – The Official Companion to Ian Fleming’s Creation, Ben McIntyre’s For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond as well as the 2008 centenary novel by Sebastian Faulks, Devil May Care.

    Higson’s first book listed is Fleming’s From Russia with Love, for which he provided the introduction for in the 2006 UK paperback reprint…

    Ian Fleming's 'From Russia with Love'

    Ian Fleming’s From Russia with Love

    The extraordinary thing about Fleming is just how readable his books still are today. He puts most other thriller writers to shame. This was the first Bond novel I ever read. And by chance I happened to start with the best written of them. Fleming put everything he had into this, fully expecting it to be his last Bond effort. In fact it turned out to be the book that finally catapulted Bond into the stratosphere.

    Charlie Higson

    To check out his entire listing, click here.

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    Updated James Bond Encyclopedia available for pre-order

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-11

    An updated edition of the James Bond Encylopedia by John Cork and Collin Stutz is now available to pre-order from Amazon.com.

    Due for release on 19 October, this new edition of the book will once again be published by DK Publishing and will retail for $40.00.

    Literary 007 fans will recall that the original edition of the book was first published in late 2007 and included details on all of the James Bond films through 2006’s Casino Royale. This new edition also adds in Daniel Craig’s Quantum of Solace.

    The original publisher’s blurb follows:

    Created in full collaboration with Eon Productions, producers of the Bond movies, this illustrated celebration of the world’s most famous super-spy examines every aspect of 007’s world, with information on his history, style, and tastes, along with A-Z guides to his adversaries, allies, gadgets, cars, and, of course, the ever-glamorous Bond girls.

    John Cork and Collin Stutz authorities on every aspect of the James Bond story, wrote the acclaimed book on the James Bond phenomenon, James Bond: The Legacy, have produced, written and directed 30 special feature documentaries for MGM’s DVD releases of James Bond films, and contributed to The Ultimate James Bond: An Interactive Dossier CD-Rom for MGM Interactive.

    For up-to-the-minute literary James Bond coverage, always turn your browsers to the CommanderBond.net main page. Be sure to check out our new Twitter feed as well.

    Discuss this literary Bond news in this thread on the CBn Forums, the largest James Bond 007 forum in the world.

  8. Books / Ian Fleming

    More James Bond centenary paperbacks available

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-09
    'From Russia with Love'

    From Russia with Love cover

    In early June, CommanderBond.net first reported that several of last year’s centenary editions of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels were making their way to paperback format.

    Originally published in hardback under the Penguin 007 imprint with striking new cover designs by artist Michael Gillette, these editions were quickly coveted by fans and went out of print after just a few months in mid-2008.

    In addition to the five already available titles showing up on online book sites such as Amazon.co.uk, literary 007 fans can now also order Live and Let Die and You Only Live Twice.

    Live and Let Die …… Amazon.co.uk
    Diamonds Are Forever …… Amazon.co.uk
    From Russia With Love …… Amazon.co.uk
    Goldfinger …… Amazon.co.uk
    The Spy Who Loved Me …… Amazon.co.uk
    You Only Live Twice …… Amazon.co.uk
    The Man With The Golden Gun …… Amazon.co.uk

    Keep watching the CommanderBond.net main page—and our brand new Twitter feed—for the most up-to-date literary James Bond coverage on the web.

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  9. Books / Ian Fleming

    The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming's Red Indians pushed to December

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-04

    A new release date of 20 December 2009 has been announced for the upcoming book by Craig Cabell, The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming’s Red Indians.

    'The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming's Red Indians'

    The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming’s Red Indians

    As earlier reported by CommanderBond.net, this latest book by Cabell is expected to take an indepth look at James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his role with the 30AU (30 Assault Unit)—a unit he set up during World War II in 1942.

    The book follows the release of last year’s Ian Fleming’s Secret War (also by Cabell), which focused on the activities of Fleming and his role with the 30AU—a unit he set up during World War II in 1942, while he served as the personal assistant to the director of naval intelligence. It’s goal was to undertake top secret intelligence-gathering missions, going in before Allied troops to make sure vital information was not destroyed.

    Cabell has said that the unit ultimately served as inspiration for the creation of the 007 character.

    The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming’s Red Indians will be published in hardback by Pen & Sword Military. Retailing for £19.99, it can currently be pre-ordered online:

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  10. Books / Charlie Higson

    Win a set of signed Young Bond novels

    By Devin Zydel on 2009-07-02

    The Young Bond Dossier alerts us to a brand new competition that James Bond fans definitely won’t want to miss out on.

    The Puffin Book Club is giving away a signed set of all five Young Bond novels by Charlie Higson.

    For a chance to win send in your name, address and contact number to: Puffin Book Club, Catteshall Manor, Catteshall Lane, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1UU—or email [email protected]. Mark all entries ‘Young Bond Competition’.

    Closing date: 3 July 2009 The winner will be picked at random and will be notified by 6 July 2009.

    Note that the promotion is open to children aged 0 to 13 (unless otherwise stated) in the UK and Eire.

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