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Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond

7 reviews
Andrew Lycett

Turner Pub, 1996

This was a throroughly delightful and interesting read.
Lycett gives great insight into Fleming's character and also the world he lived and wrote in. Also, this book gives a great overview of World War II and the Cold War. I highly recommend this book to Bond fans and anyone else who enjoys reading about exciting persons, such as Fleming.

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

10 reviews
Andrew Lycett

Free Press, 2007

The Real Holmes, The Real Doyle
A case could be made that the most famous character in fiction is Sherlock Holmes. Everybody knows him, if not from the original stories, then from the countless plays, movies, and parodies. There is an international fan club, and the great detective still gets mail at his 221B Baker Street address in London. But his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was not so enthusiastic. Surely Holmes was ...

Rudyard Kipling: Library Edition

1 review
Andrew Lycett

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2000

Brilliant biography of great poet
Kipling?s words give the key to understanding his real, but sadly limited, achievements. He was capable of an extraordinarily sensitive empathy with people, especially with those who did the work of the Empire, the doctors, engineers and administrators. But his political sympathies constrained his emotional sympathies. His love for the Empire was twisted in with a most unintelligent hero-worship ...

Dylan Thomas: A New Life

3 reviews
Andrew Lycett

Overlook TP, 2005

Admirers as Enablers
Long ago, I came upon Dame Edith Sitwell's description of Thomas: "He was not tall, but was extremely broad, and gave an impression of extraordinary strength, sturdiness, and superabundant life. (His reddish-amber curls, strong as the curls on the brow of a young bull, his proud, but not despising, bearing, emphasized this.) Mr. Augustus John's portrait of him is beautiful but gives him a ...

Barrack-Room Ballads
Rudyard Kipling

Signet Classics, 2003

First collected in 1892, Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads relive the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the Empire-all for little pay and less appreciation. An immediate success, they were unlike anything the public had seen before.

Qaddhafi and the Libyan Revolution

1 review
David Blundy, Andrew Lycett

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987

A history of the Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution.
First off, this is one of the rare books which shows the Libyan leader and what he stands for. It was written in 1987, and does not take into account Libya's role in destroying Pan Am 103. Desite being somewhat dated, Qaddafi's biography is depicted here. For those who want to know why the world should be careful of this dictator, this is the book which shows the terrorism, murder, and cruel ...

Ian Fleming

3 reviews
Andrew Lycett

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1996

The Man Behind 007 & The Bio Behind the Myth
This biography is worth reading for two very good reasons: The most obvious is to get a look at the man who created one of the greatest iconic figures of the 20th Century. "Bond, James Bond" is usually on every list of popular and enduring characters from the previous century and his simple introduction is normally cited as the most memorable movie line in cinema history. The 007 machine is ...

Dylan Thomas: A New Life
Andrew Lycett

The Overlook Press, 2004

In this authoritative, fresh, and compelling account of the extraordinary life and enduring work of Dylan Thomas -- author of "Under Milkwood, A Child's Christmas In Wales, Adventures in the Skin Trade, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, and numerous poems and stories -- Andrew Lycett peels back the layers of story that have accumulated around this extraordinarily talented writer, one of the most celebrated and contradictory literary figures ...

Rudyard Kipling Collected Short Stories
Rudyard Kipling

The Folio Society, 2005

Rudyard Kipling is one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language, and it was the medium in which he wrote most personally and most profusely. The India of the Raj, into which Kipling was born in 1865, is vividly portrayed in all its many-splendoured moods, from the snobbery of Simla drawing rooms to the golden mosques and perfumed gardens of Lahore. But his writing went beyond these experiences of Empire to embrace the ...

Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
Andrew Lycett

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007

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