New James Bond novel to be published in September Although the estate is keeping the title and plot of the new book a secret, it did announce the setting of the spy's latest adventure, which will mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of Fleming's first 007 escapade, Casino Royale. The novel, which will be published in Britain by Jonathan Cape, Fleming's original publisher, will be available from HarperCollins, a subsidiary of News Corp, in the US and Canada from early October. Fleming died in 1964, aged 56, but his estate has kept the literary James Bond brand alive by hiring celebrated authors such as Sebastian Faulks - whose Devil May Care was published to mark Fleming's 100th birthday in 2008 - and US writer Jeffery Deaver, who wrote Carte Blanche in 2011. The Bond book catalogue has sold more than 100m copies worldwide. In December, 60-year-old Boyd claimed that Bond has been incorrectly portrayed as a "cartoon character" by film directors when the spy should be troubled and "a massive boozer." "In the films Bond is a cartoon character but in the novels he is far more troubled, nuanced and interesting," Boyd told Radio Times. In Skyfall, Sam Mendes's recent Bafta-winning 007 adventure, Bond returns to his childhood home in Scotland. But Boyd insisted: "Bond was brought up by an aunt in somewhere like Wiltshire. He was sent to a boarding school in Edinburgh, Fettes - which is Tony Blair's old public school - but only after he was thrown out of Eton for a dalliance with a maid. Bond's father was Scottish and his mother was Swiss so he didn't have a drop of English blood in him. He's not the suave Roger Moore-type English toff at all. Boyd's books tend to mix fiction and fact to the point where the two often seem inseparable: in his critically acclaimed novel, Any Human Heart, he assigned walk-on roles to characters such as Ernest Hemingway and - rather fittingly - Ian Fleming. Boyd's latest novel, Waiting for Sunrise, came out last year. Boyd said that writing a Bond novel was a "once in a lifetime challenge."