Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming in Conversation (1958)
We take you back to 1958 when Ian Fleming, creator of the great spymaster character James Bond, meets up with Raymond Chandler, America’s foremost writer of hard-boiled detective fiction. The two authors, who read and admired each other’s work, sat down for drinks one day and got down to talking about villains (real and imagined) […]
Neil Gaiman novel inspires Portsmouth street name
By Alison Flood from TheGuardian.com: “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” will become a road as well as a read, as Portsmouth City Council honor homegrown novelist Neil Gaiman. Street smarts … Neil Gaiman. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian From the Carnegie medal to the Hugos, Neil Gaiman has won armfuls of […]