William Boyd is set to appear at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh on 30th September to discuss his James Bond novel, Solo. The event is open to the public and will see the author discuss the book with David Robinson, the Scotsman’s literary editior. Solo will be released in the UK on 26th September and […]
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On Monday it was announced that the next James Bond novel, written by William Boyd, was to be called Solo. Boyd explained the title: saying “events conspire to make Bond go off on a self-appointed mission of his own, unannounced and without any authorization” and “as soon as I wrote down Solo on a sheet […]
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The title of William Boyd’s James Bond continuation novel, due to be released in the UK in September, was revealed today at the London Book Fair by the author and later confirmed in a press release from Ian Fleming Publications. The book is to be titled Solo, which Boyd commented on, saying: “Sometimes less is […]
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Some time ago I was thinking about why it is that so many fans of James Bond dislike the continuation novels. While the Bond community seems to look forward to their release, they always seem to meet with a tepid reception and, sometimes, outright hostility. What brought this to mind was that I was re-reading […]
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Ian Fleming Publications used the release of Skyfall on Blu-Ray and DVD yesterday to piggyback some news of their own. The literary copyright holders announced the release date for William Boyd’s continuation novel and launched a new website and a dummy cover image to the book’s Amazon listing was also added, although they did not […]
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James Bond continuation author William Boyd was recently at the Telegraph Hay Festival where he chatted about his forthcoming novel, due to be published next year. In contrast to Jeffrey Deaver’s Bond novel, Carte Blanche, Boyd will place 007 back in 1969. Speaking to News Tank he said: “He is a middle-aged man, a middle-aged spy, […]
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A new addition to the James Bond books is to be published in 2013 according to a press release published on the Curtis Brown website on Tuesday, which started to hit the news yesterday evening. The press release is reproduced in full below, but it is interesting to see that the novel will be set […]
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