The James Bond Bedside Companion

New digital edition of the classic 1980s Reference!

The James Bond Bedside Companion was originally published in America in 1984.  A second edition came out in 1986, and then an updated version was issued in both the U.S. and U.K. in 1988.  The book went out of print in the early 1990s.  Since then, the various editions have sold for big bucks on eBay and other resale outlets.  In 2001, a firm produced an e-book and print-on-demand version of the book.  The problem with that one was that none of the original plates existed.  A facsimile had to be created from a scan of a copy of the book.  At the time, scanner software wasn't what it is today, so there were numerous, and sometimes laughable, errors in the text.  For example, a word like "burns" was misread by the scanner as "bums!"  ("Bond suffered multiple bums…")

Now, not quite thirty years after its original publication, comes a new and improved e-book, audiobook, and print edition of what many 007 fans have called, I'm humbled to say, a "Bond Bible."  Since its first appearance, numerous authors have published books on the James Bond phenomenon, mostly dealing with the films.  In 1984, however, there wasn't much out there that also dealt with the life of Ian Fleming and his novels.  My book filled that gap for a time.