Kim Sherwood
Kim Sherwood is an author and creative writing lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she lives in the city. Kim Sherwood’s first novel, Testament (2018), won the Bath Novel Award and Harper’s Bazaar Big Book Award. It was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Pick. In 2019, she was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Her second book, Double or Nothing (2022), was the first in a series commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to expand the world of James Bond. The follow-up, A Spy Like Me (2024) was a finalist for The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year, making it the first Bond novel nominated for a literary prize. Her latest literary historical novel, A Wild & True Relation (2023), was described by Dame Hilary Mantel as “a rarity – a novel as remarkable for the vigour of the storytelling as for its literary ambition. Kim Sherwood is a writer of capacity, potency and sophistication.” The hotly-anticipated final novel in Kim’s Double O trilogy, Hurricane Room, is out May 2026.
The US cover of A Spy Like Me
Double O
In a lifelong dream come true, Kim is writing a new series of Double O novels for the Ian Fleming Estate, expanding the world of James Bond with a cast of Double O agents for the 21st century. The first title, Double or Nothing, was published in 2022. The sequel, A Spy Like Me, was published in 2024, and the final instalment, Hurricane Room, is out May 2026.
'I spy... a brilliant thriller! Double or Nothing is a clever and utterly compelling addition to the Bond canon. Filled with characters so real we feel we know them, the novel races through its surprising plot twists like an Aston Martin in high gear. Get this book and clear your calendar – though it won't be for long; I read it in one sitting'
— Jeffery Deaver
‘Unshackled from the burden of fidelity to Fleming’s character, her book feels a lot freer and more spontaneous than the more conventional Bond continuation novels, while still managing to capture something of Fleming’s rollicking spirit’
— Telegraph
‘A boldly innovative James Bond novel . . . [Sherwood] rises impressively to all the challenges of the formula — the cliffhangers, the exotic locations, the wry specificity about lifestyle and weaponry brands, the blend of “kiss kiss” and “bang bang” — while adding ideas such as making Q a quantum computer and putting the climate crisis at her remarkable thriller’s centre’
— Sunday Times
'Bang up to date and action-packed, Kim Sherwood has taken the world of James Bond and turned it on its head’
— Charles Cumming
