The Book of Bond
Book by Kingsley Amis
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| Author | Kingsley Amis |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comedy Self-parody |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 111 pp |
The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007 is a book by Kingsley Amis which was first published by Jonathan Cape in 1965. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner. In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Bill Tanner is M's chief of staff and a recurring character throughout the series.
A tongue-in-cheek work, published by the same company that issued the Bond novels, The Book of Bond is a manual for prospective agents on how to live like Agent 007, illustrated with examples taken from the Fleming canon.
The first edition of this book was published with a false slipcover printed with the title The Bible to be Read as Literature. In one of the early Bond novels, Bond carries his gun in a hollowed out book of this title.
Amis, a close friend of Fleming's, was also responsible for two other works related to the James Bond series. In 1965, he wrote The James Bond Dossier, a collection of essays on the book and film series, and in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, he wrote the Bond novel Colonel Sun.
See also
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Kingsley Amis
- Lucky Jim (1954)
- That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
- I Like It Here (1958)
- Take a Girl Like You (1960)
- The Anti-Death League (1966)
- Colonel Sun (1968)
- The Green Man (1969)
- Girl, 20 (1971)
- The Alteration (1976)
- Jake's Thing (1978)
- Stanley and the Women (1984)
- The Old Devils (1986)
- The Folks That Live on the Hill (1990)
- The Russian Girl (1992)
- The James Bond Dossier (1965)
- The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (1965)
- The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001)
television adaptations
- Lucky Jim (1957)
- Only Two Can Play (1962)
- Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1967)
- Take a Girl Like You (1970)
- The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1982)
- That Uncertain Feeling (1986)
- The Green Man (1990)
- Stanley and the Women (1991)
- The Old Devils (1992)
- Take a Girl Like You (2000)
- Lucky Jim (2003)
- Elizabeth Jane Howard (wife)
- Martin Amis (son)
- Robert Markham (pseudonym)
- Lemmons (home)
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