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Title Author Publisher Date Length (first edition) Plot Ref. Casino Royale: Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 13 April 1953: 213 pp: James Bond is sent to play against and bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster for a SMERSH-controlled trade union, in a high-stakes baccarat game in France.
Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming.Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and two short story collections by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors.
Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, and the eighth full-length Bond novel.It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 1961, where the initial print run of 50,938 copies quickly sold out.
Book of Bond, James Bond. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-890723-20-0. Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2003). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: The Unofficial James Bond 007 Film Companion. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-8645-2. Bouzereau, Laurent (2006). The Art of Bond: From storyboard to screen: the creative process behind the James Bond phenomenon. London ...
Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. [a] Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 26 March 1956.
Between January and March 1952, the journalist Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale, his first novel, at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. [2] [3] [a] Fleming conducted research for Live and Let Die, and completed the novel before Casino Royale was published in January 1953, [6] four months before his second book was published.
Dr. No was released on 31 March 1958 in the UK as a hardcover edition by the publishers Jonathan Cape. [62] A paperback edition was issued by Pan Books in February 1960; over 115,000 copies were sold that year. [63] The first American edition was published in June 1958 by Macmillan under the name Doctor No. [64]
The Anglicist John Hatcher observes that the first 112 pages—in his edition of 212 pages—"read more like a hybrid travelogue/sociology textbook than a James Bond novel". [ 49 ] [ 28 ] [ f ] Being written from a western viewpoint for a western audience, Hatcher considers that the novel "is a comprehensive anthology of western tropes and ...