Higson has written five novels in the Young Bond series, which are young adult spy novels featuring Bond as a teenage boy attending school at Eton College in the 1930s. The final novel in the series was published 15 years ago. Corinne Turner, managing director of Ian Fleming Publications, said the book would be the publisher’s own way of marking both the coronation of Charles, and 60 years since the publication of Fleming’s thriller Her Majesty's Secret Service, from which the new volume derives its name. Higson, who lives with his family in north London, makes it sound easy, and, in truth, the new book zips along with a lovely lightness of touch, but that’s not to dismiss his writing. His Bond Girl, incidentally, is an Icelandic beauty named Ragnheidour.

The best Bond stories start when Bond goes into M’s office, M gives him a file and says, ‘This is the villain, this is what he’s up to, I want you to infiltrate his organisation and sort him out’. Bond’s given a mission and off he goes with his fists and a gun. It is down or Bond to thwart the villain in the new novel, all the proceeds for which will go to the National Literacy Trust. Some say that Fleming’s last novel was unpolished before he died, I find it a far better job than this Higson effort but recognize the time pressure he faced with this novel. And I applaud the content which was created in such a short time. I even enjoy the use of the word bitch used in 1953 and in this novel 70 years onwards, it is nice remembrance towards 007’s first and latest lady in a novel. Of course 007 is sent to stop this person whose support is mainly right wing extremists and mercenaries, and he has only so many days to solve this lunatic and his plans.So Bond’s first mission on His Majesty’s Secret Service is… to wipe out Ant and Dec if they start misbehaving in Westminster Abbey? No: it’s to bring down a supervillain plotting to do something worse to the King on May 6 than put itching powder in his supertunica, as well as sponsoring a series of outrages across London that “will make the [US] Capitol riots look like Aunt Fanny’s tea party”. The story is set two days before the coronation of King Charles III. Bond is sent to thwart an attempt to disrupt the coronation by the wealthy and self-styled Athelstan of Wessex, who is on a deadly mission of his own to teach the UK a lesson. 007 must dismantle his devious plans and defeat his privately hired team of mercenaries. The villain in question is the self-styled “Æthelstan of Wessex”, who claims direct descent from Alfred the Great and thinks he has more of a right to the English throne than “King Charles the Woke” – that shill for all the foreign elites who have kept the true English downtrodden since the Norman Conquest. I appreciate the author wrote the book in a month and for charity but I don’t think that’s an excuse for the results, especially in this franchise and it’s a shame the Fleming foundation didn’t plan ahead of time rather than approaching the author so late in the day resulting in a largely missed opportunity.

Food was always an important part of the original books. Bond was this fantasy figure who did things a bank clerk in Croydon couldn’t. Readers lived vicariously. The best-selling author has also slammed the last Bond film, No Time To Die. Speaking with The Sunday Times, Higson shared his feelings about the modern James Bond movies: Fleming famously wrote fast, and I channelled that energy. And now it's so exciting for me to finally enter the world of grown-up Bond.

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He worked as producer, writer, director and occasional guest star on Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) from 2000 to 2001. Subsequent television work has included writing and starring in BBC Three's Fast Show spin-off sitcom Swiss Toni. He is currently starring in Tittybangbang series 3 on BBC Three and has appeared as a panellist on QI. Higson said: “When Ian Fleming Publications came to me with the idea of writing an adult Bond story a little more than a month ago I was thrilled – until I realised it had to be ready for the coronation in May. Getting it written and turned around in such a short space of time was going to be as tense and heart-pounding as any Bond mission. Although, of course, nobody would actually be shooting at me.” Charlie Higsons Beiträge zur Bond-Literatur bestanden bisher vor allem in den den sehr gelungenen Young Bond-Romanen. Mit In His Majesty's Secret Service steuert er nun eine Fortsetzung der Flemingschen Bond-Romane bei, der mittlerweile zehnte Autor, der von den Fleming-Erben diese Aufgabe übertragen bekommen hat, nach Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, dem grandiosen Raymond Benson, Arthur Horowitz, Jeffery Deaver, Sebastian Faulks, William Boyd, Steve Cole und Kim Sherwood. News of the publication of the new Bond book comes after controversy regarding rewrites to the original run of spy novels.

It is the 4th of May, two days before the Coronation of King Charles III and the world’s favourite spy has his work cut out for him. Bond is sent at the last minute to thwart an attempt to disrupt the Coronation by the wealthy, eccentric and self-styled Athelstan of Wessex, who is on a deadly mission of his own to teach the United Kingdom a lesson. Can Bond dismantle his shady plans and defeat his privately hired team of mercenaries? In 1953 a writer called Ian Fleming introduced A character called James Bond, so this year marks his 70th birthday. The 6th of May was the coronation of King Charles III, so what better to celebrate both with a single novel that is also a nice pun referring to one of Ian Fleming best 007 novels with a his instead of her in the title. Fleming strayed just once from his own formula, he explains, in The Spy Who Loved Me, told from a female perspective. But how did he create something fresh and interesting and still make 007 recognisable as Fleming’s Bond? The story has no fancy gadgets and follows a basic but interesting modern idea and villain. I very much liked the traditional Bond twist at the very end. The book itself is quite short but simple in story.I'm a big Bond fan and I've enjoyed all the continuation novels and this was an enjoyable way to pass the time but it wasn't great, special, engrossing or particularly well written (the author has done much better and so has basically every Bond author at some point). Like when he eats an avocado – they were called avocado pears at the time, so Fleming made the mistake of having him eat one for dessert in Casino Royale.” Indeed, his next book was On Her Majesty’s Secret service, considered by fans to be one of his best. But the author, who died aged 56 in August 1964, was trapped by his creation.