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Kim Sherwood | Author
Kim Sherwood’s first novel, Testament (2018), won the Bath Novel Award and Harper’s Bazaar Big Book Award, 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. Alongside her own writing, Kim lectures in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh.
Kim has an interesting 007 connection, as the granddaughter of actor George Baker who appeared in several of the films. Baker played Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), played a NASA engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967) and also appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
In 2021, Kim began writing the Double O series for Ian Fleming Publications and HarperCollins, expanding the James Bond universe with a new cast of agents for the 21st century. The first title, Double or Nothing, was released in 2022, and the follow-up, A Spy Like Me, was published in 2024. A Spy Like Me listed for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize: Scottish Crime Book of the Year, making it the first Bond novel to be listed for a literary award. Her third Double O book, Hurricane Room, will be published in May 2026.
Kim’s 2023 novel, A Wild & True Relation, 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.”
