Cloak but no dagger: The awfully mundane world of spies

Goldeneye is the house in Jamaica where Ian Fleming wrote James Bond, and spanked his wife; that is why Fleming created Bond I think, even as he ran the Sunday Times foreign desk and (some say) spies — to spank the Russians, who have very big ...

In Ian Flemings 1963 short story 007 in New York, James Bond travels to Gotham on a mission and describes his favoritemeal in the city at the Grand Central Oyster Bar: oyster stewwith cream, crackers, and Miller High Life. (Yeah, his choice of ...

Imagine James, the suave spy from Ian Flemings novels, going around saying his name was Secretan. Would it have been half as attractive or so redolent of the superspys exploits in staving off the worlds evildoers for the good of peace-loving millions? Its one ...

60 years ago today Ian Fleming introduced the world to special agent 007 in his first novel but loathed what became of his creation Ian Fleming began to dislike his evolving James Bond character Your starter for 10: who was the first actor to play ...

Sixty years ago a former British naval intelligence officer published a spy thriller that would eventually spawn one of the most popular and successful book-and-film franchises in history. When Ian Fleming first penned Casino Royale he could never ...

In his 2005 letter to the Wall Street Journal—a brief manifesto he once impishly called, to the palpable discomfort of a C-SPAN host, "crucial to Western Civilization"—Robert Bork teased cocktail writer Eric Felten for his use of the term ...

Source: Supplied Actor Sean Connery with Lois Maxwell who played Miss Moneypenny in the early Bond films. Author Ian Fleming originally wanted to call the famous girl, Miss Pettavel. Source: News Limited IT IS one of the most famous lines in cinema ...

Jeeves will return to save the day. Sebastian Faulks, the author of numerous novels, including one featuring Ian Flemings superspy James Bond, is to revive one of the most popular pairs of characters in humorous fiction ever since P.G. Wodehouse, their ...

Adrian Fleming from Kodak (l), Brett Maishman from Fuji Xerox (centre) and chairman of PacPrint, Ferag's Ian Martin (r) A beleaguered print industry is hoping for a shot in the arm this week with PacPrint, the biggest event of the year, now open for ...