45. Fleming and Blanche Blackwell. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
46. Effigy of the Governor Sir Hugh Foot. Used with permission of Benjamin Foot.
47. From Russia, with Love. Courtesy Random House Archives.
48. Kingston’s Kings Street, 1961. Crown Copyright. Centre of Information, National Archives.
49. Squirrel fish. NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection.
50. Fleming, Blanche and Ann. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
51. Alec Guinness. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
52. Fleming writing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. © TopFoto.
53. Fleming and Sean Connery. Photographer Bert Cann Dr No © 1962 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.
54. Filming Dr No. Photographer Bert Cann Dr No © 1962 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.
55. Fleming and Ursula Andress. © Bettmann/CORBIS.
56. Princess Margaret. Paris Match via Getty Images.
57. Fleming on his beach. Getty Images.
58. Ann, Fleming and Miss Myrtle. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
59. Caspar, Francis Grey, Joan Sillick, Ann and Fleming. Courtesy of Fionn Morgan.
60. Ann in later life. Photograph by Michael Astor; courtesy of the Hon. Judy Astor.
61. Roger Moore and Violet Cummings. David Steen/Scopefeatures.com.
62. ‘For Sale or Rent’ sign. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
63. Planters. Island Outpost Images/© David Yellen/© Adrian Boot.
Colour Pictures
1. Goldeneye today. Island Outpost Images/© Peter Brown.
2. Live and Let Die; Dr No; Octopussy; The Man with the Golden Gun. Courtesy Random House Archives.
3. Myrtle Bank. Courtesy Hutchinson.
4. Fleming on the water. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
5. John Kennedy. Getty Images.
6. Coward and friends. Getty Images.
7. Ann on her first visit. Courtesy Lord O’Neill.
8. Port Maria harbour. Island Outpost Images.
9. Vervain hummingbird. Courtesy Runesm/Creative Commons.
10. Banana carrier. Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica.
11. ‘Portrait of Mrs Ian Fleming’, 1950. Private Collection/© The Lucian Freud Archive/Bridgeman Images.
12. Fleming and Ann on their wedding day. Courtesy Lord O’Neill.
13. Katherine Hepburn and Irene Selznick. Getty Images.
14. Jamaica Inn. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
15. Tower Isle. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
16. Blanche and Fleming. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
17. Goldeneye staff Island Outpost Images/© Adrian Boot.
18. Chris Blackwell and Ursula Andress. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
19. Sean Connery and a young fan. Photographer Bunny Yeager Dr No © 1962 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.
20. Blanche, Sean and Noël. © Estate of Noël Coward by permission of Alan Brodie Representation Ltd. www.alanbrodie.com.
21. Fleming and his catch. Courtesy Island Trading Archive.
22. Roger Moore. David Steen/Scopefeatures.com.
Quotations
Reproduced with permission of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, London:
Casino Royale Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1953; Live And Let Die Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1954; Moonraker Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1955; Diamonds are Forever Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1956; From Russia, with Love Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1957; The Diamond Smugglers Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1957; Dr No Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1958; Goldfinger Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1959; For Your Eyes Only Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1960; Thunderball Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1962; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1963; Thrilling Cities Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1963; You Only Live Twice Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1964; The Man With The Golden Gun Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1965; Octopussy Copyright © Ian Fleming Publications Ltd 1966.
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Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate:
‘Where Shall John Go? XIII – Jamaica’, Horizon Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1947; ‘Pleasure Islands?’, Spectator Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1952; ‘Adventures in the Sun I – The Remora’s Kiss’, Sunday Times Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1956; Adventures in the Sun II – Blue Mountain Solitaire’, Sunday Times Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1956; ‘Treasures of the Sea’, Sunday Times Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1957; ‘If I were Prime Minister’, Spectator Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1959; ‘How to Write a Thriller’, Books and Bookmen Reproduced with permission of The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1963; Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica Reproduced with permission of ‘ The Ian Fleming Estate, Copyright © The Ian Fleming Estate 1965.
Use of Noël Coward extracts throughout © NC Aventales AG by permission of Alan Brodie Representation Ltd. www.alanbrodie.com.
The letters of Ann Fleming quoted with kind permission of Fionn Morgan.
‘Meditation on Yellow’ from Gardening in the Tropics (Insomniac Press 2005) reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Copyright © 1966 by Jean Rhys. Used by permission of W W Norton & Company, Inc. and Penguin UK Limited.
You Only Live Once by Ivar Byrce. Copyright © Ivar Bryce, 1975, 1984. Quoted with permission of The Orion Publishing Group.
The Traveller’s Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Copyright © Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1950. Reproduced by permission of John Murray Press, an imprint of Hodder and Stoughton Limited.
Notes
Abbreviations
Diamonds are Forever (DF)
Dr No (DN)
From Russia, with Love (RWL)
Goldfinger (GF)
Live and Let Die (LLD)
Moonraker (MR)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (MSS)
Quantum ofsolace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories (SS)
The Diamond Smugglers (DS)
The Man with the Golden Gun (MGG)
The Spy Who Loved Me (SLM)
Thrilling Cities (TC)
Thunderball (TB)
You Only Live Twice (YLT)
The Noël Coward Diaries (NC Diary)
The Letters ofNoel Coward (NC Letters)
Pomp & Circumstance (P&C)
Cecil Beaton (CB)
Ann Charteris/Rothermere/Fleming (AF)
Hugo Charteris (HC)
Virginia Charteris (VC)
Lady Diana Cooper (DC)
Ian Fleming (IF)
Epigraph
viii: ‘My own life has been turned upside down’: Cargill ed., Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 11.
1943: Fleming and Jamaica – First Contact
1: the very same journey that will one day be replicated…, LLD, (Penguin Classics Omnibus ed. 2003), 204.
2: ‘pelting with rain …’, You Only Live Once, Bryce, 69.
2: ‘resembled a river bed …’, Bryce, 70.
3: ‘It was definitely haunted,’ Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.
4: ‘foods with more variety …’, Bryce, 71.
4: ‘really dreadful’, Ibid.
4: ‘Ivar, I have made a great decision …’, Bryce, 72.
5: ‘is how much of Ian they retain …’, Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming,
(Aurum ed. 2003), 6.
6: ‘In Jamaica Ian seemed perfectly at home …’, Quennell, The Wanton Chase, 152.
7: ‘rather melancholic …’, Fleming interview, Playboy, December 1964.
7: ‘If I have to make a choice, I would rather catch no salmon ...’, Amory ed., The Letters of Ann Fleming, 53.
7: ‘the Royal Hawaiian Serenaders, TC, (Vintage 2013 ed.), 87.
8: ‘quite a frightening woman’, Lucy Williams interview, 9 July 2013.
9: ‘The fact that I was so much happier when I was alone …’, SLM, (Vintage ed. 2012), 6.
9: ‘his inmost self strongly fortified’, William Plomer, ‘Ian Fleming Remembered’, Encounter, January 1965, vol. xxiv, no.1.
10: ‘the English upper crust…’, Robert Harling, Vogue, November 1963.’selfconsuming.’, obituary by Donald McLachlan, Sunday Telegraph, quoted in Lycett, Ian Fleming, 443.
10: ‘Bryce had laid his hands on a second-hand Douglas motorbike’ …, Bryce, 3.
11: ‘He ought to make an excellent soldier…’, Pearson, 31.
11: ‘having fun with the local Heidis …’, Lewis, Cyril Connolly: a Life, 297.
11: ‘have a powerful weakness for young Englishmen’, TC, 192.
11: ‘irresistible to women.’, Pearson, 46.
11: ‘a promise of something dashing … ‘, Plomer, Encounter.
12: ‘a series of appealing nymphs …’, Bryce, 101.
12: ‘countless neurotic patients had disappeared …’, YLT, (Vintage ed. 2012), 22.
12: ‘happy and electrically alive’, Bryce, 47.
13: ‘I left Berlin without regret…’, TC, 177.
13: ‘handsome and moody creature’, Amory, 35.
13: ‘Godlike but unapproachable.’, Pearson, 211.
14: ‘None of us had any affection …’, AF to HC, December 1950, Amory, 95.
14: ‘a slim, dark, handsome, highly strung …’, Harling, Vogue.
14: ‘I thought Ian original and entertaining’, Pearson, 212.
14: ‘I knew instinctively it would be fatal …’, Amory, 41.
14: ‘cads and bounders’, Amory, 32.
15: ‘the night before I married Esmond …’, Amory, 42.
15: ‘affluent pre-War style’, Quennell, Wanton Chase, 105.
15: ‘that little rat Attlee’, Quennell, Wanton Chase, 107.
15: ‘stimulating inspiratrice’, Quennell, Wanton Chase, 58.
15: ‘not a man of single aspect’, Plomer, Encounter.
15: ‘a brilliant and witty talker …’, Allen Dulles, Our Spy-Boss Who Loved Bond’, Life, 28 August 1966.
15: ‘conveyed the sense of being alone …’, Plomer, Encounter.
1946: Oracabessa and ‘Old Jamaica’
16: ‘Mr Luttrell’s house was left empty ...’, Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 18.
16: ‘Ten acres or so, away from towns …’, Pearson, 159.
16: ‘an old gentleman …’, Bryce, 76.
16: ‘a little place with good swimming and an island.’, Pearson notes from his Jamaica trip, 1965, Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library Pearson, J. Mss.
18: ‘handful of heartbreakingly relaxed sounding words’, Winder, The Man Who Saved Britain, 143.
20: ‘steady zing of the crickets …’, DN, (Penguin Classics Omnibus ed. 2002), 239.
20: ‘no glass in the windows, only good old Jamaica jalousies.’:, Gleaner, 20 September 1964.
20: ‘so that the birds could fly through …’, Gleaner, 10 February 1963.
21: ‘modern – a squat elongated box without ornament.’, RWL, (Penguin Classics Omnibus ed. 2002), 6.
21: ‘a small army of men, women, children, and donkeys …’, Sunspots, unpublished memoir by Marion Simmons, 15–16.
21: ‘insignificant and small’, Bryce, 79.
21: ‘often hiss like vipers …’, Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 13.
22: ‘extremely uncomfortable dining table …’, Bryce, 50.
22: ‘That was a bit of a job’, Pearson notes.
22: ‘infinitely practical and direct…’, Bryce, 80,
22: ‘It had cost £7000 …’, Huggins, Too Much to Tell, 103.
22: ‘the finest house in the island.’, Montgomery Hyde, The Quiet Canadian, 238.
23: ‘That young whippersnapper!’, Pearson, 171.
24: ‘as if the sky were a glass ceiling …’, Thompson, An Eyefor the Tropics, 27.
24: ‘stories of pirates and desperadoes …’, Mitchell, In My Stride, 139.
25: ‘hail and icy sleet’, DN, 219.
25: ‘velvet heat’, DN, 237.
25: ‘Prince’s Club, in the foothills above Kingston …’, SS, (Penguin ed. 2002), 209.
25: ‘those generously red-splashed maps …’, Mitchell, The Spice of Life, 19.
25: ‘bled pretty thin by a couple of World Wars.’, YĽT, 109.
26: ‘an occasional man going off to his precipitous smallholding …’, DN, 267.
26: ‘We absorbed the doctrine that white was virtue …’, Sherlock, Manley, 24.
27: ‘the social life of the upper classes …’, Cargill, A Selection of his Writings in the Gleaner, 34.
27: ‘very reserved and even unfriendly’, West Indian Review, 9 September 1950, vol. 2, no. 19,13.
27: ‘an unimaginative man …’, Spotlight August 1950, 16.
27: ‘she was the one that really registered.’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.
28: ‘an ugly, squat, grey cement building.’, Huggins, 79.
28: ‘much of it brought out from England in the old days …’, Huggins, 84.
28: ‘We rather startled Jamaica in the early days …’, Huggins, 82.
28: ‘sadly neglected’, Huggins, 129.
28: ‘there seemed to be a great deal of poverty …’, Huggins, 49.
28: ‘the Jamaican plantocracy …’, Huggins, 110.
28: ‘the sugar workers were very badly paid …’, Huggins, 59.
28: ‘and there were a great many pathetic ones asking for money …’, Huggins, 81.
28–9: ‘I realized very quickly that what Jamaican women needed ...’, Huggins, 109.
29: ‘every three or four years’, Huggins, 4.
29: ‘I suppose I fell in love with Jamaica ...’, Huggins, 109,
30: ‘Nothing like Lady Molly Huggins ever happened ...’, Life, 24 April 1950.
30: ‘The handsome young men …’, West Indian Review, 9 September 1950, vol. 2, no.19.
31: ‘senior staff of the Frome sugar estates.’, MGG, (Pan ed. 1966), 57.
32: ‘one of the island’s most desirable properties’, Hakewill, A Picturesque Tour n.p.
32: ‘a very fine piece of water …’, Edward Long, A History of Jamaica, 1744, 2:76.
32: ‘production in Jamaica slumped…’, Deere, The History of Sugar, vol.1, 199.
32: ‘sugar plantations shrank from more than 500 to just 77.’, Thomson, The Dead Yard, 49.
32: ‘Trinity’s output halved …’, Higman Jamaica Surveyed, 118.
33: ‘ruined slaves’ quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses …’, Richard Hughes, High Wind in Jamaica, 1.
33: ‘through three centuries…’, SS, 35.
33: ‘a thousand acres of cattle-tick … ‘, SS, 33.
34: ‘vibrant, colourful characters’, interview filmed for Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.
34: ‘sleazy, brilliantly lit wharves …’, Ross, Through the Caribbean, 129.
35: ‘work night and day to make any money …’, Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.
1947: The Bachelor Party
36: ‘He knew, deep down, that love from Mary Goodnight…’, MGG, 191.
36: ‘DaCosta remembers him waving to the boys …’, Ramsay Dacosta interview, 3 July 2012.
37: ‘Cool as hell…’ , Raymond Benson interview, 11 February 2014.
38: ‘a cubist arrangement of concrete surfaces …’, Bryce, 80.
38: ‘beautiful married blonde from Bermuda�
��, Lycett, 174.
38: ‘a million fragments of damaged cotton goods …’, Bryce, 85.
39: ‘The Colonel will be delighted to receive you, sir …’, Bryce, 102.
40: ‘All writers possessed of any energy …’, Amis, The James Bond Dossier, 115.
40: ‘Every exploration and every dive …’, Bryce, 84—5.
40: ‘There are so many things which would make you giggle here …’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 55.
41: ‘small blackamore troubles ...’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 55.
41: ‘coping with staff.’, ‘How to Write a Thriller’, Books and Bookmen, May 1963.
41: ‘They require exact instructions …’, Fleming, Where Shall John Go? XIII-Jamaica’, Horizon, vol. 16, no.96, December 1947.
41: ‘Jamaican servants, for all their charm ...’, MGG, 94.
41: ‘One of those superlative human beings …’, Bryce, 84.
41: ‘The Commander was the best man I ever met ...’, Gleaner, 20 September 1964.
42: ‘conch gumbo and fried octopus tentacles with tartare sauce ...’, Pearson, 171.
42: ‘Too many of the English and American wives …’, TC, 16–17.
42: ‘a passport into the lower strata of coloured life …’, DN, 239.
42: ‘My neighbours, both coloured and white …’, Horizon.
44: ‘she really preferred women to men.’, Huggins, 144.
44: ‘the last word in comfort and luxury …’, Sunset Lodge brochure.
44: ‘huge bonfire on the beach …’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 56.
44: ‘When they found Jamaica, they found it so beautiful…’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.
45: ‘By 1938 visitor numbers had grown …’, Taylor, To Hell with Paradise, 155.
45: ‘Here they come’, Gleaner, 29 January 1948.
45: ‘We want taking out of ourselves …’, Chancellor, James Bond: the Man and his World, 169.
46: ‘I’ve always thought that if I ever married …’, SS, 77.
46: ‘sun is always shining in my books …’, Fleming, ‘How to write a Thriller’, Books and Bookmen, May 1963.
47: ‘After four days of storm …’, Flynn, Wicked Ways, 307.
48: ‘According to his widow, Patrice …’, Patrice Wymore Flynn interview, 8 July 2012.
48: ‘She hadn’t wanted to see me …’, Flynn, Wicked Ways, 309.
49: ‘gorgeous god …’, Sunday Times, 7 October 2012.
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