The name of the book that Bancroft (Timothy Dalton) was reading in bed was "Wayward Girls & Wicked Women", which is an actual compendium of eighteen short stories edited by Angela Carter. The anthology had been published in 1986.
As of 2018 has not been released on DVD.
The closing credits declare that this movie was "filmed on location in England and the Netherlands and at Pinewood Studios, London, England".
Four of the cast of Hawks (1988) have appeared in the James Bond film franchise. Jill Bennett played Jacoba Brink in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Geoffrey Palmer portrayed Admiral Roebuck in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Timothy Dalton was James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), and Julie T. Wallace played Rosika Miklos in The Living Daylights (1987)