We use the word love interchangeably for Pret A Manger sandwiches and the man we marry. And love is what I felt for the James Bond films. It was unconditional.

By the age of 10 I knew the films by heart, and could tell them apart with my eyes closed, literally.

THE NAME IS BOND. JAMES BOND. OR IS IT? 007 IN THE 2000S BY POLINA SIMAKOVA AKA AGRIPPINA DOMANSKI 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 42

I have been brought up on James Bond movies as much as on Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories, Leonard Cohen’s songs, and my mother…