US officials and their allies have identified and taken down an artificial intelligence-powered Russian bot farm comprising almost 1,000 accounts. These accounts were able to spread disinformation and pro-Russian sentiments across X, formerly Twitter. The Justice Department has revealed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-07-10 11:16:59 UTC ]
Through the deal, the U.K.-based talent agency Curtis Brown, which reps such authors as Nigella Lawson and Jojo Moyes and such estates as those of Ian Fleming and A.A. Milne, will continue to operate under its existing structure and management team. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Known for her debut novel Testament, the Ian Fleming fanatic has been approved to write new novels set in 007’s world but without the agent himselfA new generation of Double O agents has been authorised by the estate of Ian Fleming, with Bond aficionado and novelist Kim Sherwood set to pen a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-04 09:49:02 UTC ]
In 1963 and 1964, as Louise Fitzhugh was inventing Harriet the Spy’s world, nannies and spies were very much in the public eye. Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music were in the movie theaters. John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Ian Fleming’s James Bond books were leading... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-04 09:55:48 UTC ]
Publishing’s long established boys’ club in espionage fiction is having its cover blown by a new school led by Stella Rimington, Manda Scott and Charlotte PhilbyWhen Stella Rimington, the former director general of MI5 and spy author, wrote a new foreword last year to The Spy’s Bedside Book,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-07 09:00:54 UTC ]
Hachette Children's Group has signed a picture book adaptation of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to be written by Peter Bently and illustrated by Steve Antony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 14:03:39 UTC ]
Raymond AntrobusWho/ What inspired you to start writing? I never started writing poetry with the intention of writing books until publishers approached me. I was happy to write poems and travel and read the poems for audiences. I live poem by poem. The idea of a book of poems doesn’t really... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-05 12:09:15 UTC ]
Reviews editor Everett Jones recommends 'The Man with the Golden Typewriter' by Ian Fleming, a selection of the author's James Bond-related correspondence. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
First of all, Anthony Horowitz may be a bestselling author in England, but he's not Ian Fleming. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor and director David Oyelowo has been named as the narrator of the audiobook edition of Anthony Horowitz’s forthcoming James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis (Orion). Oyelowo is known for roles in theatre, film, radio and television. This year he received a Golden Globe Best Actor Award... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage Classics and Bentley Motors have teamed up to produce a limited edition of Ian Fleming... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
An investigation by historian Guy Walters in the Daily Mail published last week says author Joe Corry's memoir "simply isn't true."A sensational upcoming British spy memoir of World War II is replete with derring-do worthy of “Inglourious Basterds”: battlefield bravado, concentration camp... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has bought Joe Corry’s Second World War memoir 005: Ian Fleming’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon announced that it has purchased the North American rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond books. James Bond, of course, is the debonair British superspy 007, played on film by a number of actors, including Sean Connery (above). Under the agreement, Amazon will retain republication rights for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2012-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian Fleming's James Bond back catalogue is getting a relaunch after his estate signs a new book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Wed, 23/03/2011 - 08:31 Millions author Frank Cottrell Boyce is writing a trilogy based on Ian Fleming's children's classic, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, in which the flying car makes a return alongside a modern family who are descended... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 17/02/2011 - 12:05 Pan Macmillan has acquired a biography of the first woman to work as a British secret agent in the Second World War, outbidding Penguin at auction. Editorial director Georgina Morley bought UK and British Commonwealth... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]