The Year Ahead

By MI6 Staff

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It will be a busy year for Ian Fleming Publications as several releases are confirmed throughout 2024. Taking back publishing rights to their in-house imprint has enabled the backlist to be re-explored.

First up, Raymond Benson's era of six original James Bond continuation novels will be released as a compendium eBook in the UK and USA. This will include: Zero Minus Ten (which had a paperback re-release last year), The Facts of Death, High Time to Kill, DoubleShot, Never Dream of Dying, and The Man with the Red Tattoo. Not included will be his two movie novelizations (Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day) presumably because of rights sharing with Danjaq. 'The Raymond Benson Years' compendium will be released on February 26th and you can pre-order now.

Charlie Higson's smash hit novella 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service,' which was originally released in hardback to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III last year, will see a paperback edition on June 6th. The new edition will feature a new cover design and include some exclusive material. As with the hardback, all royalties from the new edition will continue to go to support the work of the National Literacy Trust.

For collectors of the Ian Fleming series, a new hardback line will be released in October of all 14 titles with new jackets by a new artist (to be announced).

Back to new adventures, Kim Sherwood's second novel in her Double-O trilogy - 'A Spy Like Me' - will be released in the USA on April 23rd and the UK on April 25th.

With only one edition left in the Fleming run, The Folio Society will unveil their 14th luxury illustrated hardback later this year (spoiler: 'Octopussy & The Living Daylights' is the only remaining book).

Outside of Bond, Fleming's children's story 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' will see a new paperback edition on June 13th to celebrate the story's 60th anniversary.