Matthew Parker's non-fiction books include Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II; the Los Angeles Times bestseller Panama Fever, which was one of the Washington Post’s Best Books of the Year; The Sugar Barons, which was an Economist Book of the Year; and Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming in Jamaica.One of his ten best books about James Bond, as shared at The Daily Beast:
In Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain, by David Cannadine. (2002)Read about the other books on the list.
Professor Sir David Cannadine is one of Britain’s foremost public intellectuals and writers on modern history, particularly empire.This collection of essays includes a brilliant analysis of Fleming’s awkward personality, the result of an upbringing “by turns upstart and establishment, puritan and unrespectable, privileged and deprived.” These contradictions carry over to the portrayal of Britain in the Bond novels, whose decline Fleming—in the person of imperial hero James Bond—treats with a fascinating mixture of regret and denial. There is also a superb essay on Fleming’s fellow arch-imperialist and Jamaican neighbour Noël Coward.
The Page 99 Test: Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born.
Coffee with a Canine: Matthew Parker & Danny.
--Marshal Zeringue
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