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FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Philip Pullman has become the second selector – after Sebastian Faulks – to choose a “Writer’s Table” of 40 favourite books for Waterstone’s. As if we needed to be told, the imagination that soared from a parallel Oxford to Svalbard and Cittagazze draws its own dark materials from a galaxy of genius that makes the [...]
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Susan Hill's blog (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Funny that. This morning`s Bookseller news reveals the list Philip Pullman has compiled for Waterstone`s, just at the moment I am doing something similar. In case you don`t know, earlier in the year Waterstone`s asked Sebastian Faulks to choose a table of books - any books at all so long as they were in print. The table was placed prominently in every single branch of the bookseller chain and now...
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Dog Without A Bone (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Although I had been looking forward to the release of Sebastian Faulks' James Bond novel, Devil May Care , for months, once safely in my possession it was a long time before I actually got round to reading it. Devil May Care is set soon after The Man With The Golden Gun . In this, Ian Fleming's last Bond novel, our hero returns brainwashed from Russia with instructions to kill M and, once foiled, bounces...
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Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
I suppose now that Sebastian Faulks was credited as 'writing as Ian Fleming' for Devil May Care , the floodgates are open for all manner of possibilities. Though this sort of thing has been going on covertly for yonks eg the 'new' Virginia Andrews, but publishers can now be more open should they wish. The BBC website has an update on the relaunch of the 'Enid Blyton' brand: Some of Enid Blyton's most...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Sebastian Faulks' James Bond novel Devil May Care will not be adapted for the big screen, the makers of the 007 films say.
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PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Film bosses have turned down the chance to adapt the latest JAMES BOND book for the big screen - because its plot is too old-fashioned. Devil May Care was written by British novelist Sebastian Faulks to commemorate Bond creator Ian Fleming’s centenary this year (08). Faulks confirmed in May (08) that Eon Productions were considering turning the [...]
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Don’t look for a movie version of the Sebastian Faulks James Bond novel published earlier this year. Daily Variety reports that Eon Productions, which has had a hand in 22 of the 007 movies that have made it to the big screen thus far, has passed on bringing Devil May Care to film. And while it might appear that Eon’s shake of the head would mean opening up other possibilities for such a picture,
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Bond film bosses have turned down the chance to adapt the latest 007 book Devil May Care for the big screen.
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Devil May Care is a new James Bond book. This is the first new 007 novel since Ian Fleming died during the 1960's. My parents were big Bond movie fans, but I was too young to truly enjoy them. Additionally, I never sat down and read any of the books. Until I got my advance copy of Devil May Care . I went into this with no expectations. you're always better off that way. I was rewarded with what, in...
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Bookninja (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
The Telegraph outlines the top 12 books you must always have in stock. That’s funny, I don’t see a single title here containing either of the words “Penthouse” or “Forum”. Hm. But the list contains no Bible, no Jane Austen titles and no Lord of the Rings. Rather it is headed by Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong and Eric [...]
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Militant Ginger (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Ian Fleming’s last James Bond adventure – a collection of short stories including Octopussy and The Living Daylights – was published posthumously in 1967. That wasn’t the end of 007’s adventures in print. Kingsley Amis wrote a well received sequel in 1967 – ‘ Colonel Sun’ – and in 1981, Glidrose Publications hired thriller-writer John Gardner to reinvent Bond for the modern era. What followed were...
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Militant Ginger (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
This weekend, Tina bought me the latest James Bond book - a continuation of the Ian Fleming adventures written by 'Birdsong' author Sebastian Faulks. More on the book later - but that (and a rerun of cynical Bond outing Tomorrow Never Dies) inspired me to write a bit more about the exciting new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace - due in cinemas this November. If you want to know what Quantum of Solace...
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Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
James Bond is back in print, and the new novel, Devil May Care , reads just like the old ones. That’s both good and bad. British author Sebastian Faulks is the scribe behind this latest literary relaunch of the world’s most famous spy. Other authors who’ve penned Bond adventures, most notably John Gardner and Raymond Benson, have carried Bond into modern times while pretending that he really isn’t...
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Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
By Jeffrey Hill Writing a Bond novel when you’re not Ian Fleming must be a problematic endeavor despite the many templates from John Gardner, Kingsley Amis and Raymond Benson. Unlike those writers, Sebastian Faulks did not approach the project carrying the baggage of being a long-time Fleming aficionado. According to a Times Online interview , Faulks says he was hesitant when the Fleming estate first...
