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It's still better than the hardback cover though. I know you might reply that that wouldn't be too hard! I'm just glad that there is a paperback edition as I wasn't sure if they were going to do one or whether the hardback would be the only edition. I suppose it'll help save the easily wiped off gold lettering on the hardback cover a tad too!
Yes, it works for me too. Simple yet effective.
I see it comes with 'revised text and exclusive bonus content':
https://www.ianfleming.com/items/on-his-majestys-secret-service-paperback/
Oh, yes. I kind of forgot about that. Revised text is good. Hopefully the errors will have been removed.
Welcome to my world. I have to collect pretty much everything literary Bond.
Exactly. Same here.
If I were the designer, I'd probably give the crown / blood a bit more movement and unevenness (it's a bit too uniform for my taste), and at the same time made the title all white. It feels unnecessary to highlight "HIS", IMO. I might have looked at font alternatives too.
‘Bond’s gone woke!’ Charlie Higson on the row around his ‘metrosexual’ 007
It's a good read.
That's not a criticism, I enjoyed the book and I'd much rather them have done it than not.
I was wondering whether the digital edition would get updated but so far the Apple Books version hasn't. But I suppose this is where libraries come in useful, just the other day I stumbled on the paperback of one of my favourite books and found it has a bonus chapter that I never knew existed.
I'm imagining it won't be hugely extended; just a little more in the sequence in the 'present day'. But I guess Higson has a chance to make it less specific to publication date (as it was then)- maybe add a short epilogue after the event to make it seem less 'live' (which I loved at the time- I've never read a book set on the day I was actually reading it before).
No one's read it yet? :D
I do like this rarity type of book offering.
There's an interesting Q&A at the back of the new paperback book where CH talks about the changes. He admits the book was a 'bit of a fudge' when it came to the locations of the actual coronation day, because he didn't know where Charley would be. So he's changed locations at the start and end of the book.
My 'reading' copy from Amazon came yesterday, and my signed 'for the collection' copy from IFP hasn't arrived yet. I'm going to try and real it over the next couple of days.
Thanks! I did the same thing but Amazon haven’t even sent mine out yet. I’d probably have got it quicker if I had just ordered it when it went on sale. I thought IFP would be a bit better at sending though.