Thursday, January 30, 2025

James Bond Author's Lost Writing Will Finally Be Published This Year

 I’ve been an Ian Fleming aficionado since I was a kid in the early 1960s and saw Dr. No. I’ve read all of Ian Fleming’s novels and short stories, and much of his journalism.

I’m especially fond of his travel book, Thrilling Cities, which I caried with me while serving in the U.S. Navy on an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War, and later on a Navy tugboat at the U.S. nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. I visited many of the cities he covered a decade before in the book.

So I was pleased to learn that a new book will be published that features his journalism.

Ryan Britt at Men’s Journal reports that a new collection of James Bond author Ian Fleming’s journalism will be published in May.

In terms of fiction, Ian Fleming only ever published one book that wasn't a James Bond book; the 1964 children's book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But, as a journalist and essayist, Fleming was prolific. In fact, his career as a journalist in the 1930s predated much of his other work in both the military, and later, as an author. But, outside of the 1963 collection Thrilling Cities, Fleming's nonfiction has been basically impossible to find. 

Until now. Just announced by Ian Fleming Publications, a new nonfiction collection of the author's writing is coming in May of 2025. The title is Talk of the Devil, and the book will feature Fleming's reviews and journalism for The Sunday Times, his travel journalism not previously featured in Thrilling Cities, WWII reporting, plus, unpublished letters between Fleming and Raymond Chandler. An official press release also confirmed that Talk of the Devil will "feature newly-unearthed articles that have not been available for over half a century."

You can read the rest of the piece via the link below:

James Bond Author's Lost Writing Will Finally Be Published This Year - Men's Journal


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