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 Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ is a 1967 James Bond spin-off novel carrying the Glidrose Productions copyright. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Jonathan Cape publishing company in 1967 and later in 1968 in the United States by Random House. The American edition was retitled "003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior". The novel was written under the pseudonym R. D. Mascott. Although the novel is based around a character who is the nephew of James Bond, in Ian Fleming's own novels, Bond in fact was an