After
Ian Fleming's death in 1964, the estate either commissioned or permitted new
James Bond works to be published. In 1968,
Kingsley Amis published
Colonel Sun, under the pseudonym "
Robert Markham". The company changed its name from Glidrose Productions to Glidrose Publications. In 1973, Glidrose sanctioned
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 by
John Pearson. In 1977 and again in 1979,
Eon Productions authorized
Christopher Wood to write novelisations of his scripts for the Bond films
The Spy Who Loved Me and
Moonraker, which were released as
James Bond, the Spy Who Loved Me and
James Bond and Moonraker. In 1981 the James Bond book series was revived, with new novels written by
John Gardner. After writing 14 Bond books, John Gardner retired in 1996, and
Raymond Benson, controversially at first, the first American to write a James Bond novel, replaced him. It was during Benson's six-book run that the company owning the rights to the Bond characters changed names from Glidrose Publications to Ian Fleming Publications; the publisher's new name appeared first in the 1999 book
High Time to Kill. Benson stopped writing Bond books in 2002. On what would have been Fleming's 100th birthday—28 May 2008—the novel
Devil May Care, appeared. Its author,
Sebastian Faulks, was true to
James Bond's original character and background and provided 'a Flemingesque hero' who drove a battleship grey 1967
T-series Bentley. Next, Ian Fleming Publications commissioned
Jeffery Deaver to write
Carte Blanche, which was published in May 2011. In April 2012, the company announced that
William Boyd would write the next Bond novel and
Jonathan Cape in the UK and
HarperCollins in Canada and the US published
Solo in 2013.
Anthony Horowitz's
Trigger Mortis appeared in September 2015. Between 2005 and 2008, Ian Fleming Publications has supported the publication of
Charlie Higson's five
Young Bond novels telling the adventures of a teenage James Bond in the 1930s. In 2005 the company launched another series of Bond-related
spin-off books,
The Moneypenny Diaries by
Samantha Weinberg, writing as "Kate Westbrook".
Young Bond returned in 2013 with
Shoot to Kill by
Steve Cole. In a controversial move in 2023, the James Bond novels were rewritten to remove references deemed offensive following a sensitivity review commissioned by the company. Some depictions of
Black people were removed, while a reference to the "sweet tang of rape," a description of
homosexuality as a "
disability," and mockery of
East Asian people were allowed to remain. ==James Bond books==