BFL35 - Shaken Not Stirred - Celebrating James Bond

Join us for a dry martini and a celebration of all things Bond…James Bond!

Vaseem Khan has the blessing of the Ian Fleming estate for Quantum of Menace, featuring Q after leaving MI5. Kim Sherwood’s Hurricane Room is the final thrilling adventure in the Double-O series and actor Genevieve Gaunt is the voice of The Spy Who Loved Me audiobook.  We’ve been expecting you ...

In conversation with Joe Haddow

Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, the Baby Ganesh Agency series and the Malabar House historical crime novels. Midnight at Malabar House won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger award. In 2023, Vaseem was elected the first non-white Chair of the UK Crime Writers' Association.

Kim Sherwood is a novelist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her award-winning debut novel Testament was released in 2018, and in 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. A diehard fan of Ian Fleming’s writing and 007’s cinematic adventures since childhood, it was always Kim’s dream to write James Bond. Hurricane Room is the third in an acclaimed series of Double O novels expanding the world of James Bond.

Genevieve Gaunt played Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and has worked as an actor across television, film and stage, most recently playing Marilyn Monroe in The Marilyn Conspiracy (Park Theatre).