BOOKZ

[Pink Betty]

looking forward to this -


William Boyd takes James Bond back to 1960s in new 007 novel

Booker-nominated author William Boyd is taking on the mission to write a new James Bond novel.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17677611



...love Mr Boyd's books
www.williamboyd.co.uk/

[aqua]

I devoured the Bond books when I first came across them.

In my first week at university, I was set an essay asking something like, Are they, as a paradigmatic whatsit and assuming no loss of heat to the surroundings, novels? As an impressionable 8-yr-old, I bought into the leading question and resonantly answered 'No'.

I even went so far as to compare them (unfavourably) to the low-brow Rider Haggard adventure novels, which I loved.

Then I twigged. I was obsessed with Ursula Andress (and her bulging bikini) in Fleming's ‘Dr No’ (1962), and in Haggard's ‘She’ (1965). But I've got over it now; and will take down the bulging bikini picture tomorrow. (Or will I?)

[Ursula Undressed]

You little darlink boy

And so precocious. Only 8 and at the University. Bravo.