Octopussy and The Living Daylights unit. One of Fleming's neighbours in Jamaica, and later his lover, was Blanche Blackwell, mother of Chris Blackwell of Island Records. Fleming had previously used Blackwell's name as the guano-collecting ship in "Dr. No", calling it "Blanche". Blackwell had given Fleming a coracle called "Octopussy", the name of which Fleming used for the story. "Octopussy" was posthumously serialised in the "Daily Express" newspaper, 4–8 October 1965. Fleming originally titled "The Living Daylights" as "Trigger Finger", although when it first appeared, in "The Sunday Times" colour supplement of 4 February 1962, it was under the title of "Berlin Escape". It was
The Times Literary Supplement The Times Literary Supplement The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. The "TLS" first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to "The Times", but became a separate publication in 1914. Many distinguished writers have been contributors, including T. S. Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, but reviews were normally anonymous until 1974. From 1974, signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship of John Gross. This aroused great controversy at the time. "Anonymity had once been appropriate when it