This week’s castaway is Julian Parrott, who is no stranger to the Caribbean, so he might even feel at home stranded! 001. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming. The first novel and therefore holds a special place in the Bond pantheon. Although, for me, it’s not the best Fleming novel, but there is something engaging about the…
This week’s hapless castaway is ALR favourite Edward Biddulph who might be able to survive with plenty of coffee while working on his golf game! 001. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service OHMSS is the first James Bond novel I read. It was my grandparents’ copy of the Book Club edition, and I was 11 or…
This week finds Graham M. Thomas stranded on Crab Key Island, yet life won’t be too bad with these items to keep him company… 001. You Only Live Twice Two reasons, the first that it would allow me to remember and picture Japan as the story is largely a travelogue, but second it is the…
This week’s unfortunate victim to Dr. No’s Caribbean island is Matt Sherman, who has thought out what he plans to eat and drink wisely! 001. The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming This highly underrated novel, from the ever-highly underrated novelist Ian Fleming, is a must-do for island fun. Like me awaiting rescue,…
This week’s castaway is Robert ‘Raki’ Rakison. He is a lifelong aficionado of the spy genre, particularly Ian Fleming and James Bond. He said: ‘I was brought up on Buchan, Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Tolkien and Dumas. I then became a voracious reader of fiction like Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley, Orwell, Graves and Waugh, as…
001. Octopussy, Ian Fleming I read this one over and over. The short story which gives us the title is a deep and sad, yet beautiful, tale. I have often felt that Ian Fleming was talking to himself. The major plot points, of course, did not happen to him (as far as we know he never…
Artistic Licence Renewed 