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Literary Festival: Charlie Higson & Vaseem Khan at Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival

October 27, 2026

King Zero author Charlie Higson and Q Mysteries author Vaseem Khan will be appearing at Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival.

These two authors will discuss their different takes on 007, their personal history with the franchise and what it feels like to put their unique stamp on Ian Fleming’s famous creation.

Details and tickets here.

The exciting new cosy mystery featuring the former head of MI6’s Q Branch, Major Boothroyd, from the James Bond universe.

Dismissed from MI6’s Q Branch, where he developed weapons and field technology, Major Boothroyd (aka ‘Q’) has found a new lease of life as an amateur detective in his sleepy hometown of Wickstone-on-Water.

Fresh from successfully solving the murder of his childhood friend, Q is now hired by the police to re-examine the unsolved killing of Lawrence Noble, a tech millionaire turned online antique dealer.

Why was Noble tortured before his death? What is the significance of the circular golden object inscribed with mysterious runes found by his body?

As Q investigates, danger stalks those around him, and he soon finds himself dragged into a chilling conspiracy where past and present meet in a way he could not possibly have imagined . . .

It starts with a murdered agent in the Saudi desert.

Only a traitor could have known enough to bring him down.

But even James Bond can’t guess at the secret that was worth killing him to keep.

As Bond follows the trail across the globe, he doesn’t realise the countdown has already begun.

And hiding in the shadows is a man with more power than he could ever have imagined.

Prepare for a villain unlike any before. Prepare for KING ZERO.