W. P. Lipscomb visiting that country. Ealing sent Lipscomb to Australia to write "Bitter Springs" (1950) and a version of the bushranging novel "Robbery Under Arms". Ealing sent him to Africa to write "Where No Vultures Fly" (1951), which became a big hit. He then adapted a comic novel "His Excellency" (1952). Lipscomb produced and wrote "Make Me an Offer" (1955). He was one of several writers on "Seven Wonders of the World" (1956). He wrote some BBC plays. Lipscomb then worked on some other projects with Australian connections: "A Town Like Alice" (1956), from a novel by Neville Shute; "Robbery Under Arms"
The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel. Bond himself does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving Michel credit as a co-author. Fleming was not happy with the