In Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of author Ian Fleming, James Bond arrives on the scene rather late. But there’s a good reason to delay focusing on the secret agent Fleming created: His life ...

I’ve been an Ian Fleming aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” the new biography by Nicholas Shakespeare. I contacted Mr. Shakespeare and asked him why ...

From the first arresting moment in Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man” it is clear that we are in good hands. At a hastily arranged funeral in a village church, Fleming’s ...

Shakespeare writes in the biography (via IndieWire): “Since the mid-1950s, many well-known actors had been approached [to play Bond]. Gregory Ratoff had the arresting idea of having Bond played by a ...

In their heyday, the Beatles and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels marked the United Kingdom’s greatest exports. In 1964 alone, the Fab Four sold 25 million records in the United States. Fleming died ...