"book covers the secret adventures of James Bond's right-hand woman. Jane Moneypenny may project a cool, calm and collected image but her secret diaries reveal a rather different story. Kate Westbrook is trying to publish Miss Moneypenny's diaries, but everyone she speaks to about them is trying to stop her. Whilst in consultation with Tanner it is hinted to Westbrook that her aunt was murdered because she was searching too hard for the MI6 mole. Locations for this final adventure include Jamaica, the Outer Hebrides, Cambridge, and London. The storyline is almost evenly divided between the adventures of Miss Moneypenny"
"Westbrook, Astley is one of three or four women used by Fleming as the basis of Miss Moneypenny. Joan Bright Astley Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Churchill during World War II. As a young woman, she dated Ian Fleming and is believed to be one of the three or four women whose attributes were used by him for the character of Miss Moneypenny. Joan Bright Astley was born in Monte Caseros, Corrientes, Argentina. Her father was an English accountant; her mother,"
"Westbrook released the first two books in ""The Torch Singer"" trilogy in August–September 2014. Set in the 1950s Hollywood 'Golden Age' the books comprise suspense thrillers which follow the 'noir' tradition and detail the life of a young singer who escapes Nazi-occupied Poland to become a Hollywood star - only to die violently in uncertain circumstances at her home in Beverly Hills in 1956. Robert T. Westbrook Robert T. Westbrook (born December 24, 1945, New York City) is an American writer. He was born to columnist Sheilah Graham five years after the death of her lover F. Scott Fitzgerald. Graham"
"was a heavy smoker and drinker for most of his life and succumbed to heart disease in 1964 at the age of 56. Two of his James Bond books were published posthumously; other writers have since produced Bond novels. Fleming's creation has appeared in film twenty-six times, portrayed by seven actors. Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on 28 May 1908, at 27 Green Street in the wealthy London district of Mayfair. His mother was Evelyn ("""" Rose), and his father was Valentine Fleming, the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 to 1917. As an infant he briefly lived, with"
"Herbert Westbrook Herbert Wotton Westbrook, also referred to as Herbert Wetton Westbrook (?? – 22 March 1959), was an author best known for having been an early collaborator of P.G. Wodehouse, including becoming his assistant in writing the “By the Way” column for ""The Globe"", before Wodehouse went to live in the United States. Westbrook was also, at least in part, the model for Wodehouse’s character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. Through Westbrook, Wodehouse would also be introduced to the names ""Emsworth"", ""Threepwood"" and ""Beach"", names which would feature in some of his most famous novels. Together they also co-wrote some musicals"
"at her local Boots library, which prepares the audience for the moral dilemmas that the character is about to face. This offers a good example of how popular Kate O'Brien was in the 1940s, before falling into obscurity for decades, only to be 'rediscovered' as a key writer in the 1980s. In the 1930s one of the notorious members of Ferguson's Gang adopted the pseudonym 'Kate O'Brien the Nark' in tribute to Kate. Kate O'Brien (novelist) Kate O'Brien (3 December 1897 – 13 August 1974) was an Irish novelist and playwright. Kathleen Mary Louise ""Kate"" O'Brien was born in Limerick"
"Sun"", John Gardner wrote fourteen original novels and two novelizations, and Raymond Benson produced six original novels and three novelizations. Additionally, Christopher Wood had produced two novelizations of the Eon films, while Charlie Higson and Samantha Weinberg (as ""Kate Westbrook"") had also published Bond-related novels. Faulks stated that ""Devil May Care"" would be his only Bond book, saying: ""One tribute, one centenary, one book"", adding ""My contract did offer me a second go, but definitely not ... 'Once funny, twice silly, three times a slap', as the nanny saying goes. But I think it would be a good gig for"
"stroke on 24 September 1901. He was 63. Westbury's poetry was Romantic in style while his fiction writing appears to have drawn inspiration from popular 19th century romances as well as mystery adventure novels, particularly those of Alexandre Dumas. His best known book, “The Shadow of Hilton Fernbrook”, is the tale of a murderer who assumes the identity of a wealthy New Zealander in order to steal his estate and escape justice. Set in New Zealand, Venice and London, it has much intrigue and double dealing and features a sinister French “mesmerist” (hypnotist) named Gaston de Roal. The novel was"
"BBC production of Ian Curteis's ""The Falklands Play"". In Berkeley Breathed's daily comic strip ""Bloom County"", Kirkpatrick becomes former Meadow Party Presidential candidate Bill the Cat's love interest before he is exposed as using that relationship to perform espionage for the Soviet Union. A play written by Louis Nevaer, ""Reagan's Athena"", about her tenure as ambassador to the U.N. premiered at the Fringe in New York in August 2016. Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist. An ardent anticommunist, she was a longtime Democrat who became"
"fellow journalist Peter Jay, himself a child of political parents: Douglas Jay, Labour MP and president of the Board of Trade, and Margaret (Peggy) Jay, member of the Greater London Council. Peter Jay was appointed ambassador to the United States by his friend David Owen, Foreign Secretary in her father's government, leading to accusations of nepotism. While in the USA, she met journalist Carl Bernstein, who had helped expose Watergate, with whom she had a much-publicised extramarital relationship in 1979. Bernstein's then-wife, Nora Ephron, fictionalised the story in her novel, ""Heartburn"", in which the character of ""Thelma"" is a thinly"
"Robert T. Westbrook Robert T. Westbrook (born December 24, 1945, New York City) is an American writer. He was born to columnist Sheilah Graham five years after the death of her lover F. Scott Fitzgerald. Graham claimed Robert’s biological father was Trevor Cresswell Lawrence Westbrook, a British businessman whom she divorced in 1946. After Graham’s death in 1988, British philosopher A.J. Ayer came forward to say he was the father of Robert’s older half-sister Wendy and that Robert’s biological father was most likely the Hollywood actor Robert Taylor. Raised in Los Angeles until his teen years, his mother then moved"
"""Live at Five"" was finally reprinted in the 2010 omnibus release, ""Choice of Weapons"", which includes three additional Benson Bond novels. A fourth short story, titled ""The Heart of Erzulie"", was written by Raymond Benson in-between ""Never Dream of Dying"" and ""The Man with the Red Tattoo"", however, it was never published because Ian Fleming Publications felt it was ""too much of a Fleming pastiche."" Benson, himself, acknowledges that it was little more than a time-killer in the interim between the two book projects. In 2006, two additional short stories were written and published by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym"
"— who is she really to even bring it all up? Although this may seem offensive, Nancy Mitford said that ""everything with Evelyn Waugh was jokes. Everything. That's what none of the people who wrote about him seem to have taken into account at all"". A shorter version of “Strix's” article appeared in ""The Spectator"" and this is the fourth essay of the book. “Strix”, pseudonym of Peter Fleming, was a British adventurer and travel writer, who was James Bond author Ian Fleming’s elder brother and a friend of Nancy. He begins saying that Nancy Mitford's article has given rise"
"upon his own death in 1808, his estate and titles passed to his eldest son. Named as Lord Falmouth, he is a recurring character in the Poldark novels by Winston Graham, where he is presented as the dominant political figure in Cornwall in his time, due to his unashamed use of patronage and his influence over Parliamentary elections. He appears personally a somewhat distant and arrogant man, but capable of kindness and acts of friendship. In the 2015 BBC TV series based on the books, Lord Falmouth is played by James Wilby. George Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth George Boscawen, 3rd"
"makes use of intertextuality with Vonnegut's other works. In addition to Kilgore Trout, characters from other Vonnegut books which appear here include Eliot Rosewater and Rabo Karabekian. Rosewater was the main character in ""God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"" (1965) and a minor character in ""Slaughterhouse-Five"" (1969), while Karabekian later became the main character in ""Bluebeard"" (1988). Hoover's secretary, Francine Pefko, previously appeared in ""Cat's Cradle"" (1963), where she performed secretarial duties at General Forge and Foundry, in Ilium, New York. (Pefko also appears in ""Fubar,"" a story released posthumously in ""Look at the Birdie"".) Vonnegut uses the name ""Khashdrahr Miasma"""
"historical fiction. Celtic historical fantasy includes such works as Katharine Kerr's ""Deverry"" series, or Teresa Edgerton's ""Green Lion"" trilogy. These works are (loosely) based on Ancient Celtic cultures. The separate folklore of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland has sometimes been used indiscriminately, sometimes with great effect,as in Paul Hazel's ""Finnbranch"" trilogy, ""Yearwood"" (1980), ""Undersea"", (1982) and ""Winterking"" (1985); other writers have distinguished to use a single source. Notable works inspired by Irish mythology included James Stephens' ""The Crock of Gold"" (1912), Lord Dunsany's ""The Curse of the Wise Woman"" (1933), Flann O'Brien's humorous ""At Swim-Two-Birds"" (1939), Pat O'Shea's ""The Hounds of"
"Toad, Mole and Rat: Kenneth Grahame's classic ""The Wind in the Willows"" began as a series of letters sent to his son. The first two were written at the Greenbank Hotel whilst Grahame was a guest in May 1907. Reproductions of the letters are currently on display in the hotel. ""Poldark"" author Winston Graham knew the town well and set his novel ""The Forgotten Story"" (1945) in Falmouth. The town has been the setting for several films and television programmes. British film star Will Hay was a familiar face in Falmouth in 1935 whilst filming his comedy ""Windbag the Sailor""."
"Quentin Blake, Nadine Gordimer, Jan Morris, Geoffrey Moorhouse, P. G. Wodehouse, and the estates of G. K. Chesterton, Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, H. G. Wells, and W. B. Yeats. For Michael Holroyd, he secured an advance of more than £600,000 from Chatto & Windus in 1987 for a four-volume biography of George Bernard Shaw. He also acted as agent for John Colville, private secretary to Winston Churchill, who published his memoirs ""The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939-1955"". He compiled an anthology, ""The Complete Insomniac"", which was published in 1974, and in 1978, he founded and compiled"
"wife Evelyn, most of his estate was left in trust to benefit their four sons and their future families. His wife Evelyn would have a generous income from the trust unless she remarried, in which case she would receive a reduced amount of £3000 per annum. Evelyn never remarried and felt it was a ""bad will"". Valentine Fleming Major Valentine Fleming (17 February 1882 – 20 May 1917) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament who was killed in World War I. He was the father of authors Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming who created the James Bond character. Born"
"modeled the fictional Crabapple Farm in Sleepyside after her own home at Wolf Hollow on Glendale Road in Ossining. She also mentioned it in her last work in the series: Cherry Ames, Country Doctor's Nurse. Westchester is the primary setting and residence of the main characters in ""The Clique"" young adult novel series by Lisi Harrison. In Edward Lewis Wallant's novel ""The Pawnbroker"", the main character Sol Nazerman lives in Mount Vernon. In television, an early broadcast media presentation of Westchester County was on ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"" (1961-1966), whose main characters live in New Rochelle. Much was made"
"significant readership and winning the Gold Dagger award twice, as well as penning a guide book, ""Shakespeare's Country"" (1962) and her later Gothic novels, such as ""Dirty Butter for Servants"" (1972). Perhaps her best-loved character, the Turkish philosopher detective Nuri Bey Izkirlak, features in two of her books, ""When I Grow Rich"" (1962) and ""Nothing is the Number When You Die"" (1965). Joan Fleming Joan Fleming (27 March 1908 – 15 November 1980) was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. Her novel ""The Deeds of Dr Deadcert"" was made into the film ""Rx Murder"" (1958), and she won"
"politics. Personal archives including 300 drawings are at the University of Calgary. In the novel ""The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"" (2008) and its eponymous 2018 film adaptation, the lead character, author Juliet Ashton, writes under the pen name Izzy Bickerstaff. Isaac Bickerstaff Isaac Bickerstaff Esq was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac–maker and astrologer John Partridge. “All Fools' Day” (now known as April Fools' Day which falls on 1 April) was Swift’s favourite of holidays and he often used this day to aim his"
"Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing. While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second"
"Joan Bright Astley Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Churchill during World War II. As a young woman, she dated Ian Fleming and is believed to be one of the three or four women whose attributes were used by him for the character of Miss Moneypenny. Joan Bright Astley was born in Monte Caseros, Corrientes, Argentina. Her father was an English accountant; her mother, a Scottish governess. Described as a difficult teenager, she attended a number of schools, learning shorthand and typing"
"particularly in the U.S; ""17 Days: The Katie Beers Story"", is about the kidnapping and child sexual abuse of Katie Beers. Arthur Herzog Arthur Herzog III (April 6, 1927 – May 26, 2010) was an American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist, well known for his works of science fiction and true crime books. He was the son of songwriter Arthur Herzog, Jr. He was married to Leslie Mandel and they had no children. His novels ""The Swarm"" and ""Orca"" have been made into films. His science fiction novel ""IQ 83"" is being made into a film by DreamWorks. Herzog was"
"Joan Fleming Joan Fleming (27 March 1908 – 15 November 1980) was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. Her novel ""The Deeds of Dr Deadcert"" was made into the film ""Rx Murder"" (1958), and she won the Gold Dagger award twice, for ""When I Grow Rich"" (1962) and ""Young Man I Think You're Dying"" (1970). She was born at Horwich, Lancashire to Elizabeth and David Gibson, her father being then managing director of the Horwich Locomotive Works. She attended the Brighthelmstone School for Girls, but left without qualifications and moved to London at the age of 18 when"
"A Kill"", made an appearance. Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming is a 1990 TV biographical film of the life of Ian Fleming, creator of the popular James Bond spy character, retracing his playboy youth, his expulsion from various colleges, his experiences as a newspaper writer and his tour of duty for the British intelligence agency during World War II. Fleming himself is played by Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery, the actor who helped make Bond an icon in the films made in the 1960s. Ex-Bond girl Fiona Fullerton , who"
"he turned to a notable bird watching guide written by Bond. “I was looking for a name for my hero - nothing like Peregrine Carruthers or 'Standfast' Maltravers - and I found it on the cover of Birds of the West Indies by James Bond,"" wrote Fleming in the book Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica. Frances Bond’s wife Margaret died in 1910, a few years after the Gregorian Mansion was finished in 1906-7. Two years after her death Bond sold Willowbrook Farm to Roland and Anita Taylor. The couple renamed the farm Treweryn, after the creek that flows through the property."
"altered after film producer Kevin McClory alleged that parts of the biography were untrue regarding the novel and film rights to ""Thunderball"". In 1989 the biography was turned into a movie, ""Goldeneye"". The 1967 American paperback edition was retitled ""Alias James Bond—The Life of Ian Fleming"". No other edition has this title. The Life of Ian Fleming The Life of Ian Fleming is a biography of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond and author of the children’s book ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". The biography was written by John Pearson, Fleming’s assistant at the London ""Sunday Times,"" in 1966. Pearson"
"Ingeborg Day Ingeborg Day (November 1940 – May 18, 2011) was an Austrian-American author, best known for the semi-autobiographical erotic novel ""9½ Weeks"" which she published under the pseudonym Elizabeth McNeill, and which was later made into the 1986 film of the same name starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. Day was born in Graz, Austria, in November 1940. Her father, Ernst Seiler, was a member of the Nazi SS organization. She spent the last two years of the war on her grandmother's farm. In 1957, as a high school student, she participated in the AFS exchange program, living with"
"that her character was originally to have been named Gala Brand. Moonraker (novel) Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman"
"""Tribal Feeling"", published in 1963, and a novel, ""Brand"", published in 1968. He married three times: He was a friend of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series, and dined with him shortly before his death on 12 August 1964. Michael Astor The Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor (10 April 1916 – 28 February 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician. Michael Astor was born on 10 April 1916. He was the fourth child of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, and Nancy Witcher Langhorne, both Members of Parliament. He was educated at Eton College. He gained the rank of Captain,"
"1900s the grounds were originally owned by Frances Bond, an investment banker, and were known as Willowbrook Farm. The farm hosted a large Gregorian mansion, formal gardens and outbuildings that were designed by renowned Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer, the acclaimed architect of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The mansion which the Bonds lived in and is now over one-hundred years old, is still in use by the University today as Assumption Hall. For a time Frances’ son and respected ornithologist James Bond lived on the land. When devout birdwatcher and author Ian Fleming needed a name for his now-infamous protagonist"