"brewery has recently introduced a ginger beer. Gilroy beer featured in the 2011 James Bond novel ""Carte Blanche"", when the literary spy ordered a Gilroy Dark Ale whilst on assignment in Cape Town, South Africa. Speaking to the ""Krugersdorp News"", the author, Jeffery Deaver, said, “A friend provided some “Serious” in Cape Town and I was hooked from the first sip! I included it in Carte Blanche because Bond insists on only the best!” Gilroy’s Brewery was established in the year 2000 by Stephen Gilroy at his pharmaceutical printing company in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa. The Irish-born, Liverpudlian Stephen Gilroy"
"crime writer of novels, short stories and plays, who is best remembered for her 80 detective novels as well as her successful plays for the West End theatre. Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction was Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957). Other recent noteworthy writers in this genre are Ruth Rendell, P.D. James and Scot Ian Rankin. Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903), is an early example of spy fiction. Another noted writer in the spy novel genre was John le Carré, while in thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007. The novelist"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"
"Attacks on the genre were made by the influential critic Julian Symons (who was dismissive of postwar detective fiction in ""Bloody Murder""),Edmund Wilson (""Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?""), and Raymond Chandler (""The Simple Art of Murder""). But in sheer number of sales — particularly those of Agatha Christie — modern detective fiction has never approached the popularity of Golden Age writing. Current writing influenced by the Golden Age style is often referred to as ""cosy"" mystery writing, as distinct from the ""hardboiled"" style popular in the United States. Recent writers working in this style include Sarah Caudwell, Ruth Dudley"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"James Ellroy. Hardboiled Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who witnesses the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Rendered cynical by this cycle of violence, the detectives of hardboiled fiction are often antiheroes. Notable hardboiled detectives include Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, and The Continental Op. The style was pioneered by Carroll"
"writers as Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, and the more modern ""crime novel,"" which puts emphasis on psychology and motivation. Symons published over thirty crime novels and story collections between 1945 and 1994. His works combined elements of both the detective story and the crime novel, but leaned clearly toward the latter, with an emphasis on character and psychology which anticipated later crime fiction writers such as Ruth Rendell and P.D. James. His novels tend to focus on ordinary people drawn into a murderous chain of events; the intricate plots are often spiced with black humour. Novels typical of"
"James Bond filmography Commander James Bond RN—code number 007—is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964. There have been twenty-six films in total, produced between 1962 and 2015. Fleming portrayed Bond as a tall, athletic, handsome secret agent in his thirties or forties; he has several vices including drinking, smoking, gambling, automobiles and womanising. He is an exceptional marksman, and skilled in"
"In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded"
"Bond literary franchise with his 007 novel ""Carte Blanche"". In 2014, Hodder acquired the independent publisher Quercus. The non-fiction list covers many areas including biography, memoir, sport, humour, health, cookery and lifestyle. Notable publications of recent years include James Bowen's ""A Street Cat named Bob"" & its Second Book ""the World According to Bob"" and its Third Book in the works"", Michael Parkinson’s ""Parky"", Michael Caine’s ""The Elephant to Hollywood"", Peter Kay’s ""The Book That’s More Than Just a Book-Book"" and Lady Gaga’s first official book ""Gaga"" in 2011. Sceptre continues to add to its literary heritage, publishing authors such"
"Anthony Horowitz Anthony Horowitz, OBE (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for young adult readers includes ""The Diamond Brothers"" series, the ""Alex Rider"" series, and ""The Power of Five"" series (a.k.a. ""The Gatekeepers""). His work for adults includes the play ""Mindgame"" (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels ""The House of Silk"" (2011) and ""Moriarty"" (2014); ""Magpie Murders"" (2016) and ""The Word Is Murder"" (2017). He was also chosen to write James Bond novels by the Ian Fleming estate, starting with ""Trigger Mortis"" (2015). He has also written for television, contributing"
"first penned by Charlie Higson, with four new books to further explore the life of the teenage James Bond. The first of these, ""Shoot to Kill"", was published in the UK on 6 November 2014; Cole is credited as Steve Cole for this work. Cole was brought up in rural Bedfordshire. He attended the University of East Anglia 1989-92 where he read English Literature and Film Studies, graduating his BA course with first class honours. After a brief stint working in local radio with BBC Radio Bedfordshire (now Three Counties) he became a junior assistant at BBC Children's Magazines in"
"an adventure. Shoot to Kill (Cole novel) Shoot to Kill is a novel written by Steve Cole, the first continuation entry in the Young Bond series. Cole took over from Charlie Higson who left the series in 2009 after his final instalment ""A Hard Man to Kill"". ""Shoot to Kill"" features Ian Fleming's spy, James Bond in his teenage years, finding himself troubled in the outskirts of Los Angeles, having recently been expelled from Eton. It was followed Heads You Die in May 2016. Before leaving, a new school friend discovers some shocking film footage which propels James Bond and"
"Hugh Laurie, ""The Gun Seller"" (1996); Andy McNab, ""Remote Control"" (1998); Henry Porter, ""Remembrance Day"" (2000); and Charles Cumming, ""A Spy By Nature"" (2001). The terrorist attacks against the US on 11 September 2001, and the subsequent War on Terror, reawakened interest in the peoples and politics of the world beyond its borders. Espionage genre elders such as John le Carré, Frederick Forsyth, Robert Littell, and Charles McCarry resumed work, and many new authors emerged. Important British writers who wrote their first spy novels during this period include Stephen Leather, ""Hard Landing"" (2004); and William Boyd, ""Restless"" (2006). New American"
"Detective fiction Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades. Some scholars, such as R. H. Pfeiffer,"
"Genre fiction Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specifically literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. Although genre fiction is generally distinguished from literary fiction, a number of major literary figures have also written genre fiction, for example, John Banville, publishes crime novels as Benjamin Black, and both Doris Lessing, and Margaret Atwood have written science fiction. Georges Simenon, the creator of the Maigret detective novels, has been described by André Gide as"
"have played Bond in these films. The central figure in Ian Fleming's work is the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the ""Secret Service"". Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. During World War II, Ian Fleming had mentioned to friends that he wanted to write a spy novel. It was not until 1952, however, shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris, that Fleming began to write ""Casino Royale"", to distract himself from his forthcoming nuptials. Fleming started writing his first book, ""Casino Royale"", at"
"leading members were the major fantasy novelists; J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Lewis is known for ""The Screwtape Letters"" (1942), ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" and ""The Space Trilogy"", while Tolkien is best known as the author of ""The Hobbit"" (1937), ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". Among important writers of genre fiction in the second half of the twentieth-century are thriller writer Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond 007. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953). In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of"
"2011 in order to pursue writing full-time. Cameron has a second-degree black belt in jujutsu, and often teaches defensive tactics to law enforcement agencies and civilian groups. He is also a certified scuba diver, man-tracker and an avid adventure motorcyclist, in which would later prominently feature motorcycles in his novels. Cameron loved to watch Indiana Jones and James Bond movies as a child, which aroused his interest in becoming a writer. He published his first novel, ""National Security"" (2011), which became critically acclaimed; bestselling thriller writer Brad Thor hailed it as ""awesome"" and praised Cameron as “one of the hottest"
"Jake Arnott (""Long Firm-C""), John L'Heureux (""The Handmaid of Desire""), Delores Phillips, and Jacqueline Winspear, recipient of the Agatha Award. Soho Crime is a department of Soho Press that focuses on exotic crime series. It has produced works from widely read authors like Cara Black, Stuart Neville, Colin Cotterill, Timothy Williams and Peter Lovesey. Each crime novel or series explores a foreign country or exotic culture. Settings have included Paris, Bath, Northern Ireland, Laos, South Korea, Guadeloupe, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Bristol, Madrid, and Berlin. Soho Constable was a co-publishing venture with UK publisher Constable & Robinson, through which Soho Press"
"a predilection for certain casts of characters and certain settings, with the secluded English country house at the top of the list. A typical plot of the Golden Age mystery followed these lines: An American reaction to the cozy convention of British murder mysteries was the American hardboiled school of crime writing (certain works in the field are also referred to as noir fiction). Writers like Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), Jonathan Latimer (1906–1983), Mickey Spillane (1918–2006), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction. This created whole new stereotypes of crime fiction writing."
"Shoot to Kill (Cole novel) Shoot to Kill is a novel written by Steve Cole, the first continuation entry in the Young Bond series. Cole took over from Charlie Higson who left the series in 2009 after his final instalment ""A Hard Man to Kill"". ""Shoot to Kill"" features Ian Fleming's spy, James Bond in his teenage years, finding himself troubled in the outskirts of Los Angeles, having recently been expelled from Eton. It was followed Heads You Die in May 2016. Before leaving, a new school friend discovers some shocking film footage which propels James Bond and company on"
"from the Past"", ""Midsummer Night's Doom"" & ""Live at Five"" by Raymond Benson, ""Your Deal, Mr. Bond"" by Phillip and Robert King, and ""Bond Strikes Camp"" by Cyril Connolly which are discussed below. In the late 1990s, Raymond Benson, who at the time was the official novelist of the James Bond literary franchise, became the first author since Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, to write officially sanctioned short stories featuring the superspy. Just before his sudden departure from writing Bond novels at the start of 2003, Benson had indicated his intention to write more short pieces and publish a short story"
"case. Police (Nesbø novel) Police (, 2013) is a crime novel by Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø. It is the tenth novel in Nesbø's Harry Hole series. The tenth in the Oslo crime series featuring detective Harry Hole is the most sizeable entry yet; a twisting-turning saga that pits the gangly maverick against that most feared of serial killers, the cop killer. This murderer has a very devious ""modus operandi"", luring police, and ex-police, involved in unsolved murders to the scene of the original crime to perform a copycat killing there, seemingly as a punishment for having failed to solve the"
"headquarters. In September 1999 Flambard Press published his verse novel ""Jack, the Lady Killer"". His guide to ""Writing Crime Fiction"" (1986) was based on his analysis of the development of the genre from the 1920s to the 1990s. It includes guidance on fictional structure, the plot and its characters, and on submitting a script to publishers. Partial bibliography H. R. F. Keating Henry Reymond Fitzwalter ""Harry"" Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID. Keating, known as ""Harry"" to friends"
"introduced Johnny Fedora, the secret agent with a licence to kill, the government-sanctioned assassin. Ian Fleming, a former member of naval intelligence, followed swiftly with the glamorous James Bond, secret agent 007 of the British Secret Service, a mixture of counter-intelligence officer, assassin and playboy. Perhaps the most famous fictional spy, Bond was introduced in ""Casino Royale"" (1953). After Fleming's death the franchise continued under other British and American authors, including Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd. Despite the commercial success of Fleming's extravagant novels, John le Carré, himself a former"
"H. C. McNeile with ""Bulldog Drummond"" (1920), and Leslie Charteris, whose many books chronicled the adventures of Simon Templar, alias ""The Saint"". The medievalist scholar M. R. James wrote highly regarded ghost stories (1904–1928) in contemporary settings. This was called the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's works, particularly those featuring the detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre."
"Carl Hamilton novels The Carl Hamilton novels are a series of novels by Swedish author Jan Guillou centered on the fictional spy Carl Hamilton. In Sweden and other countries it is a best-selling series. Carl Hamilton has been called ""Sweden's James Bond"". One commentator said the books ""... place [Guillou] besides John le Carre and Len Deighton"" (famous British spy novelists). The first novel ""Coq Rouge"" was published in 1986, it was Guillou's first significant work of fiction. Carl Hamilton was created by author and journalist Jan Guillou after he had been sentenced to prison for espionage – for exposing"
"era and was published on 28 May 2011. On 11 April 2012 it was announced that William Boyd would write the next James Bond novel, entitled ""Solo"", set at the end of the 1960s. The novel was released in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2013, and in the United States and Canada on 8 October 2013. Written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, it was the first James Bond related book not written by Ian Fleming to be published after Fleming's death. To this day, Ian Fleming Publications has never disclosed or confirmed the author's identity. Written by Fleming's"
"Literary fiction Literary fiction is a term used in the book-trade to distinguish novels that are regarded as having literary merit from most commercial or ""genre"" fiction. All the same, a number of major literary figures have also written genre fiction, for example, John Banville publishes crime novels as Benjamin Black, and both Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood have written science fiction. Furthermore, Nobel laureate André Gide stated that Georges Simenon, best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret, was ""the most novelistic of novelists in French literature"". Neal Stephenson has suggested that, while any definition will"
"Black Angel"" (1943) etc.. Duggan also discusses the distinction between so-called ""noir fiction"" and hard-boiled writing. James M. Cain – also regarded as the third major figure of the early hardboiled genre – is regarded as an American pioneer of the noir genre. He debuted as a crime novelist in 1934. Other important American writers in the noir genre include Cornell Woolrich, Dorothy B. Hughes, Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Charles Williams, and Elmore Leonard. Mediterranean Noir refers to noir fiction in a Mediterranean setting. Sex, crime, and physical violence often figure prominently in Mediterranean Noir narratives. Social and historical issues"
"""The Torturer"", 1995 As by Holly Delatour (erotica): ""The Downfall of Danielle"", 1993 ""What Katy Dunn Did"", 1994 As by Lee Martin: ""Gangster's Wives"", 2007 ""The Lipstick Killers"", 2009 As by Martin Milk (anagram of 'Mark Timlin'): ""That Saturday"", 1996 As by Tony Williams: ""Valin's Raiders"", 1994 ""Blue on Blue"", 1999 Mark Timlin Mark Timlin (born 15 June 1944, in Cheltenham) is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. The Sharman books are characterised by their noir tone"
"the assassin Wint posing as a waiter because the latter didn't know that Mouton-Rothschild is a claret. In the Jeffery Deaver novel ""Carte Blanche"", Bond expresses a knowledge and appreciation of South African wine. In the film of ""Diamonds Are Forever"", Bond savours a glass of sherry and fools M into thinking Bond has made a mistake when he pronounces a year of make (""'51""). When Bond is informed that sherry has no vintage, he replies (to a non-plussed M) that he was discerning the vintage of the wine on which the sherry is based – 1851. In the film"