James Bond gets first female author
James Bond is getting its first female author. Kim Sherwood is to pen a trilogy of "contemporary thriller" books, which will be set in the world of 007 and has hailed it a dream come true to have been given the brief by Ian Fleming Publications, almost 70 years after the first story of the suave spy, 'Casino Royale', was published in 1953. The first installment in the saga - which is expected in September 2022 - will be set at time when Bond is “missing, presumed captured or even killed,” prompting a new swathe of agents, with one being a plant. Kim - a 2018 finalist of the The Sunday Times Yo...