For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)
For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels.
First edition cover, published by Jonathan Cape
A squirrel-fish; the Hildebrand Rarity was a rare member of the family.
Somerset Maugham: Fleming was an admirer and paid homage to him with "Quantum of Solace."
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.
Ian Fleming
The Glenelg War Memorial, listing Valentine Fleming, Ian's father
Eton College, Fleming's alma mater from 1921 to 1927
The Admiralty, where Fleming worked in the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War