Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

DARK SECRETS: 5 | Rare Historical Photos

Meet Christmas Dad – the hardest person on Earth to buy for

Forget Waterstones Dad, publishing’s latest target demographic is Christmas Dad - so what treats does he have in store

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2023

Best spy novels of all time to read for a classic espionage yarn

Killer espionage and classic villains

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2023

Ken Follett: ‘You don’t have to wear a hairshirt to be in the Labour party’

The writer, 74, on Bollinger Bolsheviks, champagne socialism, the power of public libraries and how he came to write the first of his 36 novels

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2023

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Friday essay: the secret lives of Ian Fleming and John Le Carré – the spymasters shaped by a lack of parental love

In 2022, writer Suleika Dawson published an intimate, refreshingly candid first-hand account of her passionate extramarital affair with David Cornwell – who worked as an intelligence agent for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and early 1960s, and wrote spy novels using the pseudonym John le Carré.

The Conversation · Oct 26, 2023

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare review – the other international man of mystery

An elegant and painstakingly researched biography of the 007 author attempts to strip away the novels to reveal the intriguing figure beneath

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

Sebastian Faulks on his futuristic 16th novel and rewriting 007: ‘I stopped watching Bond when Sean Connery left’

The ‘Birdsong’ author has struggled to shake off the ‘historical fiction’ label, but his latest novel, ‘The Seventh Son’, is set in a futuristic fertility clinic. He tells Claire Allfree about human evolution, his former life as the Indy’s first literary editor, and what he borrowed from Bond author Ian…

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2023

OPINION - Ian Fleming was a spy too: Bond was his bid to relive his youth

“The name’s Secretan, James Secretan.” Doesn’t quite work, does it? Ian Fleming realised as much when he read through the draft of his first spy novel Casino Royale, scratched out the vaguely foreign surname, and created “James Bond”. He explained to a friend that his action hero needed a name…

Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2023

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

The OWO: Welcome to the opening of the century

With 12 restaurants and bars, Michelin in its sights and half an Aston Martin on a wall, the OWO is a destination unlike any other in the world, says David Ellis

Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2023

Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’

As he publishes a new standalone novel, the spotlight-shunning author of the Slow Horses books talks about politics, time-travel and identity-swapping

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023

OPINION - This sinister censorship agenda in the publishing world should trouble us all

Hard on the heels of the news that Ian Fleming’s publishers have “edited” its new edition of the James Bond novels to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale (a cracker) to omit some non-current references to race, there arrives a new version of James Bond. On His Majesty’s…

Evening Standard · Sep 6, 2023

Jeremy Corbyn to star in rapper Adam Deacon’s film Sumotherhood

‘Allow it, wasteman’

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2023

Gin, vermouth … chicken stock?! How did martinis get so weird – and are they more fun to make than drink?

First came James Bond’s shaken variation. Now, the aperitif has been remixed with salt and vinegar, beetroot, bone and even seaweed. Are bartenders just having a giggle – or creating modern classics? There’s only one way to find out

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2023

OPINION - Tomiwa Owolade: Salman Rushdie’s warning rings true – ignore the Twitter outrage

The ‘updating’ of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming works are just the tip of the iceberg

Evening Standard · Aug 24, 2023

Top 10 female spies in fiction

Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2023

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation · Aug 17, 2023

Friday essay: what do publishers' revisions and content warnings say about the moral purpose of literature?

This year, there has been some controversy about the rewriting of passages from authors such as Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie with the aim of removing potentially offensive material. Some publishers have also adopted the precautionary measure of adding content warnings and disclaimers to books by…

MusicRadar · Aug 9, 2023

Every Breath You Take at 40: the story behind the song - "It was crap until I played on it"

"Come on, do you have to kick the shit out of one another?" - The making of one of the biggest hit songs ever made, in the words of The Police and producer Hugh Padgham

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2023

A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing?

The long read: Plenty of people will tell you the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland is the best place in the world to eat fish and chips. So what happens when its chippies – and chippies across the UK – start to close?

Evening Standard · Jun 28, 2023

Film anniversary screenings you can watch in London cinemas this summer

The Deer Hunter, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Mamma Mia! all hit milestone anniversaries in 2023

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2023

Nancy Mitford novel The Pursuit of Love to be reissued with new ‘trigger warning’

New edition of the 1945 book warns readers of ‘prejudices’ depicted within its pages

Cinemablend · May 31, 2023

All Of The Ways Rocket's Story Parallels Daniel Craig’s James Bond In Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 revealed a lot of parallels between Rocket Raccoon and James Bond's heroic journeys to greatness.

Cinemablend · May 26, 2023

Quentin Tarantino Reveals His Scrapped James Bond Plans, And Now I’ve Got FOMO

Tarantino opens up about his playful encounter with the Bond franchise.

Total Film · May 26, 2023

James Bond producers stopped Quentin Tarantinto adapting Casino Royale

Quentin Tarantino was stopped from putting his own spin on 007

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2023

Kamila Shamsie: ‘There’s nothing more comforting than Seinfeld scripts’

The novelist on the dangerous allure of Gone With the Wind, taking comfort in comedy and discovering George Eliot’s Middlemarch

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2023

The Other Fellow review – whimsical film about non-famous James Bonds

These tails and travails of ordinary people who share a name with the famous spy are often fun and funny – but the shifts in tone are uncomfortable

The Week · May 16, 2023

DUKES London review: exquisite hospitality and legendary martinis

One suspects that, for many Londoners, St James’s is one of those neighbourhoods that you’ve heard of but don’t really know. There’s a vibe of private members’ club to the entire postcode, a sense that, if your surname isn’t double-barrelled and your net worth isn’t at least seven figures (not…

1 … 4 5 6 7

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.