Trauma??? of intent??? or something like that by Anthony Burgess 
not a witty pastiche so much as a dull echo
Tag: Ian Fleming
Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
i read another book i probably wouldn’t read if i had self-respect
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
on sleaze via Saul Bellow
sleaze is not a synonym for prurience
Ian Fleming’s James Bond in Role of Honor [sic] by John Gardner
a comfort: Gardner’s ignorance of affluence shows he never got rich from these terrible books
My Word Is My Bond by Roger Moore (with Gareth Owen)
a pointless read, wasting time
Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis
i shouldn’t have read this, but I did
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
The Man With The Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters edited by Fergus Fleming
He always writes while others talk
Suicide Notes by Lewis Parker
Another book of poetry from up-and-coming indie publisher Morbid Books.
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
This is my first blog post in a while, and even then it’s still happening a little earlier than expected.Continue Reading
Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit by Don McGregor and Gary Caldwell
By the time I came to read the copy of The Quasimodo Gambit I’d bought on eBay at far more than itsContinue Reading
James Bond: Never Send Flowers by John Gardner
Please, sir, don’t send any flowers So ends one of the strangest books I’ve ever has the misfortune to encounter.Continue Reading
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
So, as I periodically do, I decided to take a book off “serious” fiction and have a bit of aContinue Reading
The Diamond Smugglers by Ian Fleming
I’m writing this on an aeroplane to Istanbul, off for a “mimibreak”*. Treating myself to a trip, all on myContinue Reading
Solo by William Boyd
I haven’t read anything by William Boyd before, but have (potentially shamefully) read every single James Bond book written byContinue Reading
From Aberystwyth With Love by Malcolm Pryce
Even committed literary snobs like myself need a break from time to time, so in order to cleanse my paletteContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 