Ian Fleming Publications

Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. In 1952, author Ian Fleming bought it after completing his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale; he assigned most of his rights in Casino Royale, and the works which followed it, to Glidrose.

In 1956, Ian Fleming hired literary agent Peter Janson-Smith to handle the foreign translation rights in the James Bond novels. He was the literary consultant and chairman of Ian Fleming Publications until 2001.

After Fleming's death, in 1964, Glidrose Productions Ltd planned a continuation series of James Bond books, to be written by a rotating series of authors, under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". In 1968, the first continuation novel published was Colonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis, afterwards the Robert Markham book series was cancelled.

In 1981, the James Bond book series was revived, with new novels written by John Gardner. In 1996, John Gardner retired from writing Bond books, and Raymond Benson quickly replaced him. Benson is the first American to write James Bond novels, a fact that was initially controversial. It was during Benson's tenure that the company changed names from Glidrose Productions Ltd to Ian Fleming Publications; the publisher's new name appeared first in High Time to Kill, (1999), by Raymond Benson. In turn, Benson retired from writing Bond books in 2002, as of November 2004 no new writer has been announced, however, also in 2004, a new book series was announced, to be written about the thirteen-year-old James Bond, aimed at the "Harry Potter audience". The writer of the new novels will be Charlie Higson (The Fast Show).

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd administers Ian Fleming's literary oeuvre and is owned by Fleming's family.

Books

by Ian Fleming

1. Casino Royale (1953) — first American paperback title: You Asked for It
2. Live and Let Die (1954)
3. Moonraker (1955) — first American paperback title: Too Hot to Handle
4. Diamonds Are Forever (1956)
5. From Russia With Love (1957)
6. Dr. No (1958)
7. Goldfinger (1959)
8. Thunderball (1961) — with Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham.
9. The Spy Who Loved Me (1962)
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963)
11. You Only Live Twice (1964)
12. The Man with the Golden Gun (1965)

Short stories

• For Your Eyes Only Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond (1960) — Included five stories
  • "For Your Eyes Only"
  • "From a View to a Kill"
  • "Quantum of Solace"
  • "Risico"
  • "The Hildebrand Rarity"
• Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
  • originally published with two short stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights"; a third story, "Property of a Lady," was added for the 1967 paperback edition. One additional short piece, "007 in New York," appeared in Fleming's collection of travel essays, Thrilling Cities (1963) and was added to new editions of Octopussy and The Living Daylights beginning in 2002.

Other books by Ian Fleming

• The Diamond Smugglers (1957)
• Thrilling Cities (1963)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)

by Kingsley Amis (as "Robert Markham")

1. Colonel Sun (1968) — last book copyrighted under the Glidrose Productions name

by John Pearson

Pearson's book differs from all other Bond novels in that it's a biography told in the first-person by Pearson upon meeting James Bond.

1. James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973) – first book copyrighted under the Glidrose Publications name

by John Gardner

1. Licence Renewed (1981)
2. For Special Services (1982)
3. Icebreaker (1983)
4. Role of Honour (1984)
5. Nobody Lives For Ever (1986)
6. No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987)
7. Scorpius (1988)
8. Win, Lose or Die (1989)
9. Brokenclaw (1990)
10. The Man from Barbarossa (1991)
11. Death is Forever (1992)
12. Never Send Flowers (1993)
13. SeaFire (1994)
14. COLD (1996) (retitled Cold Fall for American publication)

by Raymond Benson

1. Zero Minus Ten (1997)
2. The Facts of Death (1998) – last Bond novel copyrighted under the Glidrose Publications name
3. High Time to Kill (1999) – first Bond novel copyrighted by Ian Fleming Publications
4. Doubleshot (2000)
5. Never Dream of Dying (2001)
6. The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)

Short stories

Benson also wrote three James Bond short stories:

(i) "Blast from the Past", Playboy magazine, January 1997

(ii) "Midsummer Night's Doom", Playboy magazine, January 1999

(iii) "Live at Five", in the U.S. TV Guide, in November 1999.

Young James Bond

by Charlie Higson

1. SilverFin – March 2005
2. Untitled – January 2006

Novelizations

• James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) by Christopher Wood
• James Bond and Moonraker (1979) by Christopher Wood
• Licence to Kill (1989) by John Gardner
• GoldenEye (1995) by John Gardner
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) by Raymond Benson
• The World Is Not Enough (1999) by Raymond Benson
• Die Another Day (2002) by Raymond Benson

External links

• Ian Fleming Publications website