007 Food: Old chewy beef and watery potatoes as well as slimy pile of greyish beans

Food: Old chewy beef and watery potatoes as well as slimy pile of greyish beans
Bond book appearance: Young Bond: SilverFin (2005)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made

"During the lunch today the boys were given an old chewy beef and watery potatoes as well as slimy pile of greyish beans."

Charlie Higson: "Young Bond: SilverFin" (2005)

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007 Food: Chicken stew, a grey gummy pasty, a pile of old peas and watery cooked potatoes

Food: Chicken stew, a grey gummy pasty, a pile of old peas and watery cooked potatoes
Bond book appearance: Young Bond: SilverFin (2005)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made



"If Carlton is in top three, then Hellebore must win the run, if he wants to win the cup."

"In other words, if Hellebore doesn't win, he does not have any chances?"

"Right, but I think he wins Carlton, so only one who is left is you. Are you capable of that, James?"

"I don't know", James answered. He put food in his mouth and thought about it at the same time when biting tasteless mush. He tried to ate as much as possible to get the energy for the run, but food was as lousy as usual. Stew which had chewy chicken bites, a grey gummy pasty, a pile of old peas and watery cooked potatoes."


Charlie Higson: "Young Bond: SilverFin" (2005)

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007 Food: Fried eggs and sausages

Food: Fried eggs and sausages
Bond book appearances: Young Bond: SilverFin (2005)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made

"They were eating fried eggs and sausages that they had cooked on the little electric stove out in the passage under the watchful eye of the boys’ maid. Everyone bought extra food at the School Stores or at Jack’s or Rowland’s in the town; this was absolutely necessary to stop the boys from starving to death, as the meals that Codrose served up were almost completely inedible."

Charlie Higson: "Young Bond: SilverFin" (2005)

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007 Food: Breakfast of Bond: Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and marmalade

Food: Breakfast of Bond: Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and marmalade
Bond book appearances: Many. For example: Icebreaker (1983), Young Bond: SilverFin (2005)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made

"Best meal of the day, breakfast,’ said Charmian once she’d ordered scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and marmalade. ‘Sets you up for the day.’

The waitress came over and asked if they would like a pot of tea and Charmian exploded.

‘Tea? Good God, no. It’s mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on drinking it, I’ve no doubt that the empire won’t last much longer. No, a civilised person drinks coffee."

Charlie Higson: "Young Bond: SilverFin" (2005)

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007 Food: Roasted chicken with steamed carrots, potatoes and spring greens with apple pie

Food: Roasted chicken with steamed carrots, potatoes and spring greens with apple pie
Bond book appearance: Young Bond: SilverFin (2005)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made


"Charmian had roasted a chicken for lunch and they ate it with steamed carrots, potatoes and spring greens, freshly picked, firm and brightly coloured. James savoured every single mouthful. After the muck at Eton, it was like eating the food of the gods.

‘Do you know anything about a boy called Alfie Kelly?’ James asked as Aunt Charmian brought a big apple pie to the table.

‘Dreadful business,’ said his aunt, cutting into the pie and releasing a delicious cloud of steam that smelt of apples and sugar and cinnamon."

Charlie Higson: "Young Bond: SilverFin" (2005)

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007 Event: Charlie Higson on Bond (16 September 2016)

Photo: @ Writers' Centre Norwich

What: Charlie Higson on Bond
Where: Writer's Centre Norwich, Thomas Paine Study Centre, Norwich, England
When: 16 September 2016 at 18.00
Duration: 1,5 hours
Price: £8 / £6

Charlie Higson is a comedian, actor and author of the phenomenally successful Young Bond series, which has sold over a million copies in the UK and has been translated into over 24 languages. Here, he joins UEA Lecturer and fellow Bond enthusiast Matthew Woodcock for a discussion of all things 007; including Higson’s personal approach to the character’s early adventures, the inspiration taken from Ian Fleming’s own life and the essential ingredients of a classic James Bond story.

The discussion will also touch on the place of thriller vis-à-vis crime writing and the challenges of writing for a young adult audience, with a Q&A opportunity for aspiring writers to pose their own questions.

Norfolk has a big part to play in the world of James Bond – from being a film location for "Die Another Day" (2002), to providing Ian Fleming with the inspiration for the name of his supervillian Ernst Stavro Blofeld – making it the perfect location for this special event.

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007 Book: Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)

Bond book: Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier

Author: Charlie Higson

Publication date: 29 October 2009

Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier is a non-fiction companion to the Young Bond series of novels written by Charlie Higson. The book contains in-depth character profiles to the cars, the weapons and the exotic locations, plus facts, statistics, photographs, maps, and illustrations by Kev Walker. The book also includes an original Young Bond short story by Charlie Higson titled "A Hard Man to Kill". The story is set between the books Hurricane Gold and By Royal Command and involves James Bond travelling back to London aboard the French ocean liner SS Colombie. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written. An extract from the story appeared in the paperback edition of By Royal Command.

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007 Book: By Royal Command (2008)

Bond book: By Royal Command

Author: Charlie Higson

Publication date: 3 September 2008

By Royal Command  is the fifth novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel, written by Charlie Higson, takes place in 1934 and see James at the age of fourteen. Locations include The Alps (Kitzbühel), England, France, Lisbon, and Vienna.

In Lisbon, OGPU Colonel Irina Sedova, also known as 'Babuska' (Russian for 'grandmother'), visits the leader of the Communist Cell in Portugal. However, she soon realizes that he isn't the cell leader. He vainly tries to kill her but Sedova's bulletproof vest protects her and she manages to kill the imposter. She then finds a sheet of paper with a name from the past on it: James Bond.

During this time, Bond is on his way for a school skiing trip in Austria when he runs afoul of a group of Hitler Youth members who call him a cheater for having won a game of poker.

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007 Book: Hurricane Gold (2007)

Bond book: Hurricane Gold
Author: Charlie Higson
Publication date: 6 September 2007

Hurricane Gold is the fourth novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. The novel is set in Mexico and the Caribbean.

Two American children are abducted by criminals searching for military plans stolen by their father. James Bond attempts to protect them by masquerading as a young Mexican thief and joining the gang. They journey through a hurricane-damaged Mexico and eventually arrive at the Caribbean island Lagrimas Negras. They will be kept there for the rest of their lives unless they complete 'La Avenida de Muerte'.

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007 Book: Double or Die (2007)

Bond book: Double or Die

Author: Charlie Higson

Publication date: 4 January 2007

Double Or Die is the third novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s.

The story's prologue is set in Highgate Cemetery, where Professor Alexis Fairburn, an Eton beak (Professor), is kidnapped by Wolfgang and Ludwig Smith. When he was kidnapped, Fairburn was tracing a tombstone, but leaves the piece of paper with which he was tracing. The story itself starts with young James Bond and his friend, Perry Mandeville (leader of the Danger Society) reminiscing the previous days events.

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007 Book: Blood Fever (2006)

Bond book: Blood Fever

Author: Charlie Higson

Publication date: 5 January 2006

Blood Fever is the second novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s.

Blood Fever begins with a prologue during which a young girl named Amy Goodenough is aboard her father's yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean when she becomes witness to a band of pirates under the command of Zoltan the Magyar who board the yacht. Zoltan's men ransack the vessel and in the process murder Amy's father who was unwilling to part with his priceless possessions. When Amy fails to get revenge by throwing a knife at Zoltan and hitting him in the shoulder, she is taken prisoner, but swears she will one day succeed in achieving vengeance.

Following the adventure SilverFin, James Bond is back at Eton where he is now a member of a secret risk-taking club known as the Danger Society. As summer vacation looms, James is given the opportunity to go to Sardinia on a field trip with one of his professors, Peter Haight and a colleague, Cooper-ffrench. While there Bond would also be able to visit his cousin, Victor Delacroix (a relation of Monique Delacroix, James deceased mother).
Prior to leaving, Bond learns of the tragedy that took place on the Goodenough's yacht from his friend, Mark Goodenough, Amy's brother who attends Eton. Bond is also witness to a mysterious group whose followers are marked on both of their hands with an 'M' (double M), which James eventually learns is the mark of the Millenaria, a defunct secret Italian society that has had plans throughout history to restore the Roman Empire.

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007 Book: SilverFin (2005)

Bond book: SilverFin

Author: Charlie Higson

Publication date: 3 March 2005

SilverFin is the first novel in the Young Bond series that depicts Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. Because Ian Fleming never explicitly said when James Bond was born, Ian Fleming Publications and Charlie Higson chose the year 1920 as his birth year. SilverFin takes place in 1933.

SilverFin is broken up into three parts in addition to a prologue. In the prologue, an unnamed school boy is attacked by eels, attracted to a bleeding fishhook cut, while fishing in Loch Silverfin. The first part of the book chronicles James Bond's starting attendance at Eton College, which is one of the best schools in England. The second part of the novel details the spring break. James travels to Scotland to meet with his Aunt Charmian. It is also in this part of the novel that Higson reveals the details of Bond's parents' death, first mentioned in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice.

A graphic novel adaptation of SilverFin written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by artist Kev Walker was released by Puffin Books in the UK on 2 October 2008 and by Disney Hyperion in the U.S. on 18 May 2010.

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007 Author: Charlie Higson

Who: Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson
Born: 3 July 1958, Frome, England

Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television.

In 2004, it was announced that Higson would pen the Young Bond series of James Bond novels, aimed at younger readers and concentrating on the character's school-days at Eton. Higson was himself educated at Sevenoaks School where he was a contemporary of Jonathan Evans, former Director General of MI5. The first novel, SilverFin, was released on 3 March 2005 in the UK and on 27 April 2005 in the US A second novel, Blood Fever, was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK and 1 June in the US. The third novel, Double or Die, was published on 4 January 2007 having had its title announced the day before. The next, Hurricane Gold, came out in hardcover in the UK in September 2007. In this year he also made a debut performance on the panel show QI. His final Young Bond novel, By Royal Command, was released in hardcover in the UK on 4 September 2008.

Charlie Higson's 007 production:

• SilverFin (2005), SilverFin: The Graphic Novel (2008) (with Kev Walker)
• Blood Fever (2006)
• Double or Die (2007)
• Hurricane Gold (2007)
• By Royal Command (2008)
• Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009) (authored short story included in book)

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