William Boyd (writer) Littérature Européenne and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002. "Restless", the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother had been recruited as a spy during World War II, was published in 2006 and won the Novel of the Year award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Boyd's novel "Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel" was published in early 2012. Following "Solo" in 2013 he published "Sweet Caress" in 2015, the fourth novel he has written from a woman's viewpoint. On 11 April 2012 Ian Fleming's estate announced that Boyd would write the next James Bond novel.
The Last Ship (novel) aboard the and the , which stands in for the show's fictional USS "Nathan James" (DDG-151). A second season (of 13 episodes) was ordered in 2014, to air in 2015, and a third season (also of 13 episodes) was ordered in 2015, to air in 2016. A fourth season of 10 episodes aired in August 2017 and a 10 episode fifth and final season aired in September 2018. The museum ship was used in filming to represent a Russian . The Last Ship (novel) The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by William Brinkley. A television series