Ian Fleming Publications

The Fleming family company behind every Bond novel since 1952.

Ian Fleming Publications is the Fleming family company that administers Ian Fleming's literary works, bought by the author in 1952 as Glidrose Productions after he completed his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale.

Quick Facts

Bought by fleming: 1952
First continuation novel: Colonel Sun (1968)

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Background

Named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose, the company received most of Fleming's rights in Casino Royale and the works that followed. It was Glidrose Productions until 1972, Glidrose Publications until 1998, Ian Fleming (Glidrose) Publications until 2002, and then took its present name. In 1956 Fleming hired the literary agent Peter Janson-Smith to handle foreign translation rights; he remained literary consultant and chairman until 2001.

After Fleming died in 1964 the estate commissioned or permitted new Bond works: Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham, John Pearson's authorized biography of 007 (1973), and Christopher Wood's novelisations of The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. John Gardner revived the series in 1981 and wrote 14 Bond books before retiring in 1996; Raymond Benson, the first American to write a Bond novel, followed with six, and the new company name first appeared on his 1999 book High Time to Kill. Sebastian Faulks's Devil May Care appeared on Fleming's 100th birthday, 28 May 2008, followed by Jeffery Deaver's Carte Blanche (2011), William Boyd's Solo (2013) and Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mortis (2015), Forever and a Day (2018) and With a Mind to Kill (2022), with Charlie Higson's On His Majesty's Secret Service in 2023.

The company also supported Higson's five Young Bond novels between 2005 and 2008, continued by Steve Cole from 2014, and Samantha Weinberg's Moneypenny Diaries from 2005. In 2023 it drew controversy by having the novels rewritten after a sensitivity review, removing some depictions of Black people while allowing other offensive passages to remain.