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7
:  ‘the Royal Hawaiian Serenaders,
TC,
(Vintage 2013 ed.), 87.

8
:  ‘quite a frightening woman’, Lucy Williams interview, 9 July 2013.

9
:  ‘The fact that I was so much happier when I was alone …’,
SLM,
(Vintage ed. 2012), 6.

9
:  ‘his inmost self strongly fortified’, William Plomer, ‘Ian Fleming Remembered’,
Encounter,
January 1965, vol. xxiv, no.1.

10
:  ‘the English upper crust…’, Robert Harling,
Vogue,
November 1963.’selfconsuming.’, obituary by Donald McLachlan,
Sunday Telegraph,
quoted in Lycett,
Ian Fleming,
443.

10
:  ‘Bryce had laid his hands on a second-hand Douglas motorbike’ …, Bryce, 3.

11
:  ‘He ought to make an excellent soldier…’, Pearson, 31.

11
:  ‘having fun with the local Heidis …’, Lewis,
Cyril Connolly: a Life,
297.

11
:  ‘have a powerful weakness for young Englishmen’,
TC,
192.

11
:  ‘irresistible to women.’, Pearson, 46.

11
:  ‘a promise of something dashing … ‘, Plomer,
Encounter.

12
:  ‘a series of appealing nymphs …’, Bryce, 101.

12
:  ‘countless neurotic patients had disappeared …’,
YLT,
(Vintage ed. 2012), 22.

12
:  ‘happy and electrically alive’, Bryce, 47.

13
:  ‘I left Berlin without regret…’,
TC,
177.

13
:  ‘handsome and moody creature’, Amory, 35.

13
:  ‘Godlike but unapproachable.’, Pearson, 211.

14
:  ‘None of us had any affection …’, AF to HC, December 1950, Amory, 95.

14
:  ‘a slim, dark, handsome, highly strung …’, Harling,
Vogue.

14
:  ‘I thought Ian original and entertaining’, Pearson, 212.

14
:  ‘I knew instinctively it would be fatal …’, Amory, 41.

14
:  ‘cads and bounders’, Amory, 32.

15
:  ‘the night before I married Esmond …’, Amory, 42.

15
:  ‘affluent pre-War style’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
105.

15
:  ‘that little rat Attlee’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
107.

15
:  ‘stimulating
inspiratrice’,
Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
58.

15
:  ‘not a man of single aspect’, Plomer,
Encounter.

15
:  ‘a brilliant and witty talker …’, Allen Dulles, Our Spy-Boss Who Loved Bond’,
Life,
28 August 1966.

15
:  ‘conveyed the sense of being alone …’, Plomer,
Encounter.

1946: Oracabessa and ‘Old Jamaica’

16
:  ‘Mr Luttrell’s house was left empty ...’, Jean Rhys,
Wide Sargasso Sea,
18.

16
:  ‘Ten acres or so, away from towns …’, Pearson, 159.

16
:  ‘an old gentleman …’, Bryce, 76.

16
:  ‘a little place with good swimming and an island.’, Pearson notes from his Jamaica trip, 1965, Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library Pearson, J. Mss.

18
:  ‘handful of heartbreakingly relaxed sounding words’, Winder,
The Man Who Saved Britain,
143.

20
:  ‘steady zing of the crickets …’,
DN,
(Penguin Classics Omnibus ed. 2002), 239.

20
:  ‘no glass in the windows, only good old Jamaica jalousies.’:,
Gleaner,
20 September 1964.

20
:  ‘so that the birds could fly through …’,
Gleaner,
10 February 1963.

21
:  ‘modern – a squat elongated box without ornament.’,
RWL,
(Penguin Classics Omnibus ed. 2002), 6.

21
:  ‘a small army of men, women, children, and donkeys …’,
Sunspots,
unpublished memoir by Marion Simmons, 15–16.

21
:  ‘insignificant and small’, Bryce, 79.

21
:  ‘often hiss like vipers …’,
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica,
13.

22
:  ‘extremely uncomfortable dining table …’, Bryce, 50.

22
:  ‘That was a bit of a job’, Pearson notes.

22
:  ‘infinitely practical and direct…’, Bryce, 80,

22
:  ‘It had cost £7000 …’, Huggins,
Too Much to Tell,
103.

22
:  ‘the finest house in the island.’, Montgomery Hyde,
The Quiet Canadian,
238.

23
:  ‘That young whippersnapper!’, Pearson, 171.

24
:  ‘as if the sky were a glass ceiling …’, Thompson,
An Eyefor the Tropics,
27.

24
:  ‘stories of pirates and desperadoes …’, Mitchell,
In My Stride,
139.

25
:  ‘hail and icy sleet’,
DN,
219.

25
:  ‘velvet heat’,
DN
, 237.

25
:  ‘Prince’s Club, in the foothills above Kingston …’, SS, (Penguin ed. 2002), 209.

25
:  ‘those generously red-splashed maps …’, Mitchell,
The Spice of Life,
19.

25
:  ‘bled pretty thin by a couple of World Wars.’,
YĽT,
109.

26
:  ‘an occasional man going off to his precipitous smallholding …’,
DN,
267.

26
:  ‘We absorbed the doctrine that white was virtue …’, Sherlock,
Manley,
24.

27
:  ‘the social life of the upper classes …’, Cargill,
A Selection of his Writings in the Gleaner,
34.

27
:  ‘very reserved and
even
unfriendly’,
West Indian Review,
9 September 1950, vol. 2, no. 19,13.

27
:  ‘an unimaginative man …’,
Spotlight
August 1950, 16.

27
:  ‘she was the one that really registered.’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

28
:  ‘an ugly, squat, grey cement building.’, Huggins, 79.

28
:  ‘much of it brought out from England in the old days …’, Huggins, 84.

28
:  ‘We rather startled Jamaica in the early days …’, Huggins, 82.

28
:  ‘sadly neglected’, Huggins, 129.

28
:  ‘there seemed to be a great deal of poverty …’, Huggins, 49.

28
:  ‘the Jamaican plantocracy …’, Huggins, 110.

28
:  ‘the sugar workers were very badly paid …’, Huggins, 59.

28
:  ‘and there were a great many pathetic ones asking for money …’, Huggins, 81.

28

9
: ‘I realized very quickly that what Jamaican women needed ...’, Huggins, 109.

29
:  ‘every three or four years’, Huggins, 4.

29
:  ‘I suppose I fell in love with Jamaica ...’, Huggins, 109,

30
:  ‘Nothing like Lady Molly Huggins ever happened ...’,
Life,
24 April 1950.

30
:  ‘The handsome young men …’,
West Indian Review, 9
September 1950, vol. 2, no.19.

31
:  ‘senior staff of the Frome sugar estates
.’, MGG,
(Pan ed. 1966), 57.

32
:  ‘one of the island’s most desirable properties’, Hakewill,
A Picturesque Tour
n.p.

32
:  ‘a very fine piece of water …’, Edward Long,
A History of Jamaica,
1744, 2:76.

32
:  ‘production in Jamaica slumped…’, Deere,
The History of Sugar,
vol.1, 199.

32
:  ‘sugar plantations shrank from more than 500 to just 77.’, Thomson,
The Dead Yard,
49.

32
:  ‘Trinity’s output halved …’, Higman
Jamaica Surveyed,
118.

33
:  ‘ruined slaves’ quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses …’, Richard Hughes,
High Wind in Jamaica,
1.

33
:  ‘through three centuries…’,
SS,
35.

33
:  ‘a thousand acres of cattle-tick … ‘,
SS,
33.

34
:  ‘vibrant, colourful characters’, interview filmed for Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.

34
:  ‘sleazy, brilliantly lit wharves …’, Ross,
Through the Caribbean,
129.

35
:  ‘work night and day to make any money …’, Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.

1947: The Bachelor Party

36
:  ‘He knew, deep down, that love from Mary Goodnight…’,
MGG,
191.

36
:  ‘DaCosta remembers him waving to the boys …’, Ramsay Dacosta interview, 3 July 2012.

37
:  ‘Cool as hell…’ , Raymond Benson interview, 11 February 2014.

38
:  ‘a cubist arrangement of concrete surfaces …’, Bryce, 80.

38
:  ‘beautiful married blonde from Bermuda’, Lycett, 174.

38
:  ‘a million fragments of damaged cotton goods …’, Bryce, 85.

39
:  ‘The Colonel will be delighted to receive you, sir …’, Bryce, 102.

40
:  ‘All writers possessed of any energy …’, Amis,
The James Bond Dossier,
115.

40
:  ‘Every exploration and every dive …’, Bryce, 84—5.

40
:  ‘There are so many things which would make you giggle here …’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 55.

41
:  ‘small blackamore troubles ...’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 55.

41
:  ‘coping with staff.’, ‘How to Write a Thriller’,
Books and Bookmen,
May 1963.

41
:  ‘They require exact instructions …’, Fleming, Where Shall John Go? XIII-Jamaica’,
Horizon,
vol. 16, no.96, December 1947.

41
:  ‘Jamaican servants, for all their charm ...’,
MGG,
94.

41
:  ‘One of those superlative human beings …’, Bryce, 84.

41
:  ‘The Commander was the best man I ever met ...’,
Gleaner,
20 September 1964.

42
:  ‘conch gumbo and fried octopus tentacles with tartare sauce ...’, Pearson, 171.

42
:  ‘Too many of the English and American wives …’,
TC,
16–17.

42
:  ‘a passport into the lower strata of coloured life …’,
DN,
239.

42
:  ‘My neighbours, both coloured and white …’,
Horizon.

44
:  ‘she really preferred women to men.’, Huggins, 144.

44
:  ‘the last word in comfort and luxury …’, Sunset Lodge brochure.

44
:  ‘huge bonfire on the beach …’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 56.

44
:  ‘When they found Jamaica, they found it so beautiful…’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.

45
:  ‘By 1938 visitor numbers had grown …’, Taylor,
To Hell with Paradise,
155.

45
:  ‘Here they come’,
Gleaner,
29 January 1948.

45
:  ‘We want taking out of ourselves …’, Chancellor,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
169.

46
:  ‘I’ve always thought that if I ever married …’,
SS,
77.

46
:  ‘sun is always shining in my books …’, Fleming, ‘How to write a Thriller’,
Books and Bookmen,
May 1963.

47
:  ‘After four days of storm …’, Flynn,
Wicked Ways,
307.

48
:  ‘According to his widow, Patrice …’, Patrice Wymore Flynn interview, 8 July 2012.

48
:  ‘She hadn’t wanted to see me …’, Flynn,
Wicked Ways,
309.

49
:  ‘gorgeous god …’,
Sunday Times,
7 October 2012.

49
:  ‘I just wasn’t allowed to know any black people …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.

50
:  ‘a very handsome man …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

50
:  ‘pretentious and full of himself’, Patrice Wymore Flynn interview, 8 July 2012.

50
:  ‘For God’s sake! That’s the worst insult you can pay a man.’,
RWL,
144.

51
:  ‘Yes, I’m fucking them both.’, Lycett, 164.

51
:  ‘everything starts wrong and goes on wrong…’, Ibid.

51
:  ‘an admiring sugar planter’s daughter’, Ann Diary fragment, Amory, 60.

51
:  ‘His days of fame …’, Huggins, 87.

51
:  ‘If the moral standard of the women can be raised …’,
West Indian Review,
9 September 1950, vol. 2, no.19,15.

51
:  ‘came in cars, on mules, donkeys and horses.’, Huggins, 117.

52
:  ‘the Continental attitude’, Huggins, 150.

52
:  ‘nymphomaniac’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 17 April 2013.

52
:  ‘the love of the people of Jamaica for me.’, Huggins, 150.

53
:  ‘2000 different varieties of flowers’,
Horizon.

53
:  ‘The most beautiful bird in Jamaica …’,
SS,
32.

54
:  ‘some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.’,
LLD,
271.

54
:  ‘the most beautiful large island in the world.’, Pearson, 172.

54
:  ‘you drop down, often through a cathedral of bamboo …’,
Horizon.

54
:  ‘a description that Fleming would reuse ...’,
LDD,
271.

55
:  ‘dictatorship of white supremacy’, Beckles,
Britain’s Black Debt,
3.

55
:  ‘the children have yaws on their legs ...’, Pringle,
Waters of the West,
45.

56
:  ‘ugly’ past…’, Norman Manley’s introduction to omnibus, Roger Mais novels, Jonathan Cape, 1966, vol. v.

57
:  ‘The Empire and British rule rest on a carefully nurtured sense of inferiority …’, Sherlock,
Manley
160, 27.

57
:  ‘nurture a sense of inferiority in the masses’,
Public Opinion,
29 May 1943.

57
:  ‘Each Jamaican was a smoldering little volcano …’,
Spotlight,
August 1950, vol. 11, no.8,11.

57
:  ‘revolution because of class resentment’, Pringle,
Waters of the West,
105.

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