• Young Bond author Charlie Higson gave a special talk on 'James Bond and the Cold War' on Thursday evening, 3rd October, and the JBIFC sent along a spy to listen to what was said. The talk took place as part [...]

    By Published On: October 5th, 2019
  • Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London on 28th May 1908, the second of four brothers. He was educated at Eton College and then abroad in Germany and Austria. After an early career at Reuters news agency, he [...]

    By Published On: May 10th, 2012
  • Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along [...]

    By Published On: May 10th, 2012
  • John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, [...]

    By Published On: May 9th, 2012
  • Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the official author of the adult James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High [...]

    By Published On: May 8th, 2012
  • Christopher Hovelle Wood (born 5 November 1935 in London's Lambeth borough is an English screenwriter and novelist best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as 'Timothy Lea'.  Under his own name, he [...]

    By Published On: May 8th, 2012
  • Charles Murray Higson (born 3 July 1958), more commonly known as Charlie Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television. In 2004, it was announced that Higson would [...]

    By Published On: May 5th, 2012
  • Sebastian Faulks, one of Britain's most admired novelists, is the author of Devil May Care, which he wrote at the invitation of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to mark Ian Fleming's centenary. The book was published on 28 May [...]

    By Published On: May 4th, 2012
  • Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He [...]

    By Published On: May 3rd, 2012