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Announcement: New Editions of Bond Universe Texts
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Posted on 28 May, 2026
Today, Thursday 28th May, is Ian Fleming’s birthday and to celebrate we’re very pleased to announce three new publishing projects coming in 2026. Each take us further into the worlds of Felix Leiter, teenage James Bond and Ian Fleming himself.
Introducing Raymond Benson’s The Hook and the Eye audiobook, Charlie Higson’s Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier paperback edition and John Pearson’s Ian Fleming – The Notes in hardback.
THE HOOK AND THE EYE – AUDIO EDITION
Following the success of last year’s paperback and eBook release of Bond continuation author Raymond Benson’s new Felix Leiter spin-off novel, The Hook and the Eye will now receive an audiobook edition. Read by narrator Stuart W. Howard it will be available worldwide via all audiobook platforms.
It is 1952. Felix has lost his job at the CIA and finds himself working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job turns into a matter of life and death when Felix stumbles upon a murder and a cabal of spies embedded in Manhattan.
Hired to transport the impossibly beautiful and impossibly secretive Dora from New York to Texas, Felix is thrust into a non-stop adventure, where danger and deceit lie in wait around every bend in the road.
The Hook and the Eye is a mystery, a romance, a spy story, a road trip tale and a postcard of a lost Americana. It is Raymond Benson at his very best.
Publication: 5th August, 2026
DANGER SOCIETY: THE YOUNG BOND DOSSIER – PAPERBACK REISSUE
With a new audio drama edition of the first Young Bond title, SilverFin, coming in the autumn from Big Finish productions, this full colour paperback reissue of Danger Society gives fans the opportunity to delve deeper into the world of Charlie Higson’s Young Bond.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the boy, who became the man, who became the legend…
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier features a short story by Charlie Higson, and is the complete and definitive guide to the world and adventures of Young Bond. Packed with information – from in-depth character profiles to the cars, the weapons and the exotic locations, plus facts, stats, photographs, maps, and illustrations by Kev Walker – this book is both a must-have for Young Bond fans and a perfect introduction to the megaselling series.
Publication: 3rd September, 2026
IAN FLEMING – THE NOTES – FIRST EVER TRADE EDITION
A brand-new hardback of Ian Fleming: The Notes by John Pearson. This legendary book has only previously been available as a very limited edition but will now be available online, at our shop and at all good bookshops.
For fans of James Bond and Ian Fleming, here are the meticulous biographical notes that John Pearson made in 1965 while researching Ian Fleming.
John Pearson occupies a unique role in the world of Bond. He has the distinction of being James Bond’s only authorised biographer and his celebrated work, The Life of Ian Fleming was the first book about Fleming ever to be published.
Ian Fleming – The Notes is a book about writing a book. It charts not only Fleming’s life but Pearson’s own journey while investigating his subject. Compelling, insightful, irreverent and written in John Pearson’s inimitable style, it includes fascinating details, letters and interviews that never made it into the finished biography.
Publication: 18th November, 2026