ABOUT IAN FLEMING PUBLICATIONS LTD

On completion of his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, Ian Fleming took the advice of his accountant and purchased a small production company, Glidrose Productions Limited (so named for its founders, John Gliddon and Norman Rose). He assigned most of his rights in Casino Royale and the works which followed it to Glidrose and fifty years and two changes of name later, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd still administers Ian Fleming's literary estate.

In 1956, on the recommendation of friend and fellow thriller writer Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming hired a young literary agent, Peter Janson-Smith, to handle the foreign translation rights in the Bond novels. For the next forty-five years, Peter was the company's literary consultant and some-time Chairman, guiding both it and Bond through many changes. By the time of Peter's retirement in 2001, the Fleming Bond novels and those by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and Raymond Benson, had sold close to a hundred million copies worldwide.

In 2003 IFP took the literary legacy of Ian Fleming in an entirely new direction, with the comissioning of Charlie Higson to write the bestselling Young Bond novels.

Today, IFP is wholly owned by the Fleming family and managed by Corinne Turner.