James Bond (literary character) Deaver included a number of elements from the Fleming novels, including Bond's tastes for food and wine, his gadgets and "the rather preposterous names of some of the female characters." In 2013 the William Boyd-written continuation novel "Solo" was released; it ignored Deaver's new timeframe and was set in 1969. In October 2014 it was announced that Anthony Horowitz was to write a further Bond book. The book is due to be set in the 1950s, and it contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. In 2005 author and comedian Charlie Higson released "SilverFin", the first of five novels
Boyd Oxlade he wrote the novel "Death in Brunswick" in the hope of making some money. The book was published by William Heinemann Australia in 1987, and the 1991 film adaptation—which Oxlade co-wrote with the film's director, John Ruane, and which starred Sam Neill, Zoe Carides and John Clarke—became a cult hit. Oxlade died of cancer on 24 January 2014, aged 70. At the time of his death, he was working on a novel "Ron Elms, the Flying Butcher of Alamein", a reworking of a screenplay he had written several years earlier. Boyd Oxlade Boyd John Michael Oxlade (8 May 194324 January