The Book of Bond

Book by Kingsley Amis

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The Book of Bond

First edition

Author| Kingsley Amis
Language| English
Genre| Comedy Self-parody
Publisher| Jonathan Cape

Publication date

| 1965
Publication place| United Kingdom
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, 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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* Outline of James Bond

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Kingsley Amis

Novels|

* 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)

Non-fiction|

* The James Bond Dossier (1965)
* The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (1965)
* The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001)

Film and
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)

Related|

* Elizabeth Jane Howard (wife)
* Martin Amis (son)
* Robert Markham (pseudonym)
* Lemmons (home)

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James Bond in literature

James Bond

James Bond
series|

| Ian Fleming|

* Casino Royale (1953)
* Live and Let Die (1954)
* Moonraker (1955)
* Diamonds Are Forever (1956)
* From Russia, with Love (1957)
* Dr. No (1958)
* Goldfinger (1959)
* For Your Eyes Only (1960)
* Thunderball (1961)
* The Spy Who Loved Me (1962)
* On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963)
* You Only Live Twice (1964)
* The Man with the Golden Gun (1965)
* Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)

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Kingsley Amis|

* Colonel Sun (1968)

John Gardner|

* Licence Renewed (1981)
* For Special Services (1982)
* Icebreaker (1983)
* Role of Honour (1984)
* Nobody Lives for Ever (1986)
* No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987)
* Scorpius (1988)
* Win, Lose or Die (1989)
* Brokenclaw (1990)
* The Man from Barbarossa (1991)
* Death Is Forever (1992)
* Never Send Flowers (1993)
* SeaFire (1994)
* Cold (1996)

Raymond Benson|

* Zero Minus Ten (1997)
* The Facts of Death (1998)
* High Time to Kill (1999)
* DoubleShot (2000)
* Never Dream of Dying (2001)
* The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)

Sebastian Faulks|

* Devil May Care (2008)

Jeffery Deaver|

* Carte Blanche (2011)

William Boyd|

* Solo (2013)

Anthony Horowitz|

* Trigger Mortis (2015)
* Forever and a Day (2018)
* With a Mind to Kill (2022)

Novelizations|

| Christopher Wood|

* James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
* James Bond and Moonraker (1979)

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Spin-off
works|

| R. D. Mascott|

* The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)

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John Pearson|

* James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)

Young Bond series|

| Charlie Higson|

* SilverFin (2005)
* Blood Fever (2006)
* Double or Die (2007)
* Hurricane Gold (2007)
* By Royal Command (2008)

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Steve Cole|

* Shoot to Kill (2014)
* Heads You Die (2016)

The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg|

* Guardian Angel (2005)
* Secret Servant (2006)
* Final Fling (2008)

Unofficial
works|

* Take Over (1970)
* The Killing Zone (1985)

Unpublished
works|

* Per Fine Ounce (1966)

Related
works|

* Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964)
* The James Bond Dossier (1965)
* The Book of Bond (1965)
* The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984)
* The Battle for Bond (2007)
* Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)

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* James Bond uncollected short stories
* Bibliography of works on James Bond

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