Yesterday was the centenary of the birth of Ian Fleming who was the British author and creator of the suave super spy, James Bond and as we know he preferred his martinis shaken, not stirred. To celebrate this event a new James Bond novel that has been written in the style of Ian Fleming by top writer Sebastian Faulks, is due out on Wednesday to commemorate the centenary of the 007 creator.

Author Ian Fleming would have been 100 years old on Wednesday had he not died on August 12 1964 in hospital in Canterbury, following a heart attack suffered on Sandwich Golf Course.

Sebastian Faulks has often spoken out about his admiration for Ian Fleming. He said that “The writing was very clear, swift journalistic, I liked the elegance of the style as well as a certain playfulness – not the heavy camp groaning jokes of the Roger Moore films, but the feeling that Fleming occasionally winks at you and isn’t taking it all too seriously. In his house in Jamaica Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the morning, then go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand words in late afternoon, then more Martinis and glamorous women. In my house in London I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling.”

What an entrance this book made. Last night on the news I saw this book being delivered on a speed boot and it was sealed in a case now this was a typical James Bond entrance.

What did you think of the James Bond Films and will you be buying this book on Wednesday?

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