Author and comedian Charlie Higson is planning to write a new series of novels about the young James Bond.Read the rest of the article and watch a video of Charlie Higson on Bond's appeal, at the BBC website.
The new sequence, which has not been officially announced, will explore the previously uncharted territory of Bond's sexual awakening.
"I want to have a break and do some other stuff for a while. But I'd love to come back and write some more," Higson told BBC News.
His first Bond novel Silverfin became a hit after it was published in 2005.
Fast Show star Higson was given the licence to write the Young Bond children's books by the family of Bond creator Ian Fleming.
The fifth and final book of the sequence, By Royal Command, is due out in September.
The books - aimed at under 14s - follow the exploits of the teenage Bond, who is first encountered as a 13-year-old orphan newly arrived at Eton in the early 1930s.
"By Royal Command ends with James Bond leaving Eton an older and wiser boy," Higson said.
"One thing I've been talking about possibly doing is a second sequence of books for a slightly older readership, maybe taking him up to and into World War II.
"He's approaching the age of 15 in this latest book and I couldn't continue writing this type of book for this age group with Bond at the age he is."
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Friday, April 25, 2008
The future of 'Young Bond'
The first series of 5 books about the young James Bond by Charlie Higson is due to conclude in September, however Higson is saying that he might write some more, aimed at an older (children's) audience. From the BBC website:
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Meet Jane Blonde
There's James Bond for adult readers, Charlie Higson's Young Bond series for teenagers and for younger than that (and probably aimed at girls given the colour of the covers) we now have Jane Blonde...
Jane Blonde: Sensational Spylet is the first in a soon to be four book series.
Synopsis from amazon.co.uk: Janey Brown feels like she is practically invisible. With her stick-thin legs, mousy brown hair and grey eyes, no one ever notices her. Then a crazy woman turns up at the school gates, claiming to be Janey's godmother. According to hip-hop-talking, larger-then-life 'G-Mamma', Janey Brown really is something special. She's Jane Blonde, Sensational Spylet and it's time for her first mission.Swapping her too-big school uniform for a silver spysuit, and her battered satchel for a set of amazing gadgets, Janey soon discovers that nothing in her life, or in her past, is as it seems. Her elusive Uncle Solomon happens to be the head of SPI (Solomon's Politicational Investigations) and the greatest spy the world has ever known. Recruited by the government to work on top-secret Project Crystal Clear, Solomon has made a scientific discovery that could change the world. But now he's gone missing. Can Jane Blonde get to him first? Or will The Sinerlesse, a rogue spying group with evil purposes (and a very nasty dog), hunt him down and take his secret?
Also available are Jane Blonde Spies Trouble and Jane Blonde: Twice the Spylet with no. 4, Jane Blonde: Spylet on Ice, out in October.
The website has a spying game, a screensaver download as well as the usual stuff about the author and her first three books.
Jane Blonde: Sensational Spylet is the first in a soon to be four book series.
Synopsis from amazon.co.uk: Janey Brown feels like she is practically invisible. With her stick-thin legs, mousy brown hair and grey eyes, no one ever notices her. Then a crazy woman turns up at the school gates, claiming to be Janey's godmother. According to hip-hop-talking, larger-then-life 'G-Mamma', Janey Brown really is something special. She's Jane Blonde, Sensational Spylet and it's time for her first mission.Swapping her too-big school uniform for a silver spysuit, and her battered satchel for a set of amazing gadgets, Janey soon discovers that nothing in her life, or in her past, is as it seems. Her elusive Uncle Solomon happens to be the head of SPI (Solomon's Politicational Investigations) and the greatest spy the world has ever known. Recruited by the government to work on top-secret Project Crystal Clear, Solomon has made a scientific discovery that could change the world. But now he's gone missing. Can Jane Blonde get to him first? Or will The Sinerlesse, a rogue spying group with evil purposes (and a very nasty dog), hunt him down and take his secret?Also available are Jane Blonde Spies Trouble and Jane Blonde: Twice the Spylet with no. 4, Jane Blonde: Spylet on Ice, out in October.
The website has a spying game, a screensaver download as well as the usual stuff about the author and her first three books.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Young Bond 3 - Title Announced
"The title of the third Young Bond book was revealed today by Young Bond author, Charlie Higson. Double or Die, the title of the latest book in the super selling Young Bond series, was chosen by the fans in an unprecedented nationwide ballot. Double or Die is published by Puffin Books tomorrow, Thursday 4th January, at £6.99.
Thousands of Young James Bond fans voted for their favourite of three given titles, devised by the author Charlie Higson: Double or Die, N.E.M.E.S.I.S. or The Deadlock Cipher. This is the first instance that readers have decided the title of a book."
From the MI6 News webpage which has all the details.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Pick the new 'Young Bond' title
On the Young Bond website you can vote for your choice of title for #3 in the series by Charlie Higson.
The choices are:-
The Deadlock Cipher
Double or Die
N.E.M.E.S.I.S
Has anyone or anyone's offspring tried this series?
The choices are:-
The Deadlock Cipher
Double or Die
N.E.M.E.S.I.S
Has anyone or anyone's offspring tried this series?
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