This is where Ian Fleming came to drink martinis and jot notes for his Bond novels.
Fictional superspy James Bond was made a CMG in Ian Fleming's novel From Russia With Love.
Ian Fleming, vice-chairman of the town council, said Mr Bircham was "held in high regard" in Dulverton.
Boyd is no stranger to the spy thriller genre and an admitted Bond enthusiast and Ian Fleming fan.
Bond author Ian Fleming, who worked in wartime intelligence, based the concept on similar units used by the Germans.
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The 1930 Hotel Palacio reportedly did just that for author Ian Fleming.
Eden recuperated from the crisis in Ian Fleming's house, Goldeneye, in Jamaica.
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Movies with literary ties inevitably inspire high-end book-giving amongst film people, and Heritage has done a thriving business in Ian Fleming, Jane Austen, J.
Henry, all shaken, not stirred, with a frisson of Ian Fleming.
Istanbul, set at the border of the East and West and with a skyline studded by domes and minarets, was the favourite city of Bond author Ian Fleming.
Frank Cottrell Boyce has been nominated for a Roald Dahl Funny Prize for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, a sequel to Ian Fleming's 1964 original.
The book, also called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was written by James Bond author Ian Fleming in 1961, while he was recovering from a heart attack.
This leads them to the final battle in a place called Skyfall, which fans of Ian Fleming's books know as a very personal place for Bond.
Chastened, I crossed the street and met Simon Rodway, an official city guide (www.silvercanetours.com) who leads a tour on Ian Fleming through the Mayfair neighbourhood of London.
And because, like Ian Fleming's antihero, James Bond (the mean-spirited book version, not the amusing movie one), Gillette engages us with his enviable panache and awesome courage.
Craig said he was "incredibly proud" to be playing the hero created by Ian Fleming, who first appeared on the big screen in Dr No in 1962.
For fans of the films, Bond is a wholly different experience than he is for fans of Ian Fleming's novels, notes English professor and cultural critic Louis Menand.
Ian Fleming may own the copyrights to the original James Bond novels, but not the idea of a dashing international spy fighting super-villains with gadgets and glib remarks.
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This 18-acre Oracabessa, Jamaica, retreat is where writer Ian Fleming penned 14 of his James Bond novels, and the thatched-roof villas are named after some of the fictional spy's love interests.
But it would be wrong to assume that from the time Dr No launched Ian Fleming's hero into the movies in 1962, they have enjoyed an unbroken, upward graph of praise and profitability.
The Bahamas are bursting with Bond history: Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, lived on the islands, and Sean Connery, perhaps the most famous actor to play Bond, had a home there too.
"It is estimated that over half the world's population have heard of James Bond which is an incredible testament to the imagination of his creator, Ian Fleming, " said Julietta Edgar, the Royal Mail's head of special stamps.
As I walked through it alone during a visit there this spring, it reminded me in some ways of Ian Fleming's Goldeneye in Jamaica, a spartan but splendidly labyrinthine retreat devoted to both a productive life and to the elegant sunset cocktail hour.
"At his core he remains the same as he was when Ian Fleming started writing - he's sexist, he's misogynist, " says Christoph Lindner, professor of media and culture at the University of Amsterdam and author of The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader.
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Beretta is known for its handguns, thanks in part to Ian Fleming, who equipped James Bond with one of its pistols in his early books, and in part to the adoption of the Beretta 92 pistol by America's armed forces and many law-enforcement agencies.
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