‘An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country’ Sunday Times’A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir’ GuardianAfter victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly traumatized country. Simon Winder, born into this nation of uncertain identity, fell in love (as many before and since) with the man created as the antidote, a quintessentially British figure of great cultural significance: James Bond. Written with passion, wit and a great deal of personal insight and affection, this book is his wildly amusing attempt to get to grips with Bond’s legacy and the difficult decades in which it really mattered.’Read-aloud funny’ Independent on Sunday’Superb’ Wall Street Journal]]>
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