A flurry of activity on the book front
Several big developments with my novel, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, have occurred in the past few weeks. I’ve also been busy with magazine assignments and someth...
Category: Books
Book Review: Young Bond goes Hollywood in ‘Shoot to Kill’
Many readers, including myself, were nervous about the handover of the Young Bond books from Charlie Higson to Steve Cole. Higson’s five books were superb, much...
10 Books that had an impact on me
Over on Facebook a friend challenged me to list 10 books that had an impact on my life. I figured I should share them on Tumblr as well. So in no special order ...
Fifty years after his death, Ian Fleming still matters
Fifty years ago today — Aug. 12, 1964 — Ian Fleming died. He was young, only 56, but the way the man smoke and drank, it was a miracle he lasted that long. In c...
The Alphabet Library: Q is for the Quiller series, by Adam Hall – Telegraph
The Alphabet Library: Q is for the Quiller series, by Adam Hall – Telegraph In association with AbeBooks.co.uk, Tim Martin continues his series on the A t...
Happy birthday, Ian Fleming
Happy 106th birthday to Ian Fleming, James Bond’s creator and the inspiration who taught me how to craft my dreams.
Young Bond is back!
Appropriately, they picked today — Ian Fleming’s birthday — to announce the title of the new Young Bond novel, Shoot to Kill. Can’t say I’m inspired by the titl...
The Strange Case of My Debt to Robert Louis Stevenson
High school was the height of my James Bond obsession. Today that would mean watching the movies any time you want on your iPad, but this was the early 1980s an...