Ian fleming jamaica biography amazon

Matthew Parker&#;s new book is both a biography of Ian Fleming from when he built Goldeneye on wards and the history of Jamaica during the period leading to independence and just after.

I can remember when I first read the James Bond novels how little information there was about Ian Fleming.

My &#;s Pan edition of Casino Royale carries no information about the author at all, while a Triad Panther edition of Dr No, which I think was the first book I bought new, includes an overview of his life that hardly made an impact on me.

When I was maybe ten or eleven a neighbour lent me a copy of Richard Gant&#;s The Man With The Golden Pen (), borrowed on my behalf from her dad, but it seems to have hardly registered on my consciousness and today I recall nothing.

Adding to the confusion, somehow I mixed that book with John Pearson&#;s early biography of Fleming and so didn&#;t read that for many years.

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