It is the last day of August 2022 and the beaming evening sun still hints at the intensity of a warmer than warm London summer. Such are the apt vistas of the city for the launch of a new chapter and era of James Bond publishing. Perched high over the Thames in Harper Collins UK’s [almost] Ken Adam inspired offices near London Bridge, Ian Fleming Publications, the Fleming family, literary Bond alumni, agents and 007 commentators gathered to launch the newest chapter in the continuation of a legacy that began seventy years ago.
Interviewed by MI6’s Vipul Patel, Kim Sherwood sheds some London dusk light on the characters, impulses, research methods and drives of an expanded universe of Universal Exports for the world of Bond and Ian Fleming…
