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Bond is forever Over four decades after his creator, Ian Fleming, died, James Bond continues to be well and truly alive. A year after the latest Bond novel - Carte Blanche - penned by Jeffery Deaver was published, William Boyd has been revealed as the next writer to carry on Bond's adventures. Bond whose description in the Soviet files reads - height: 183 cm, weight: 76kg;slim build;eyes: blue;hair: black;scar down right cheek and on left shoulder;all-round athlete;expert pistol shot, boxer, knife-thrower;does not use disguises. Languages: French and German. Smokes heavily (NB: special cigarettes with three gold bands); vices: drink, but not to excess, and women - will be back as Boyd's creation in 2013. Boyd, who made his name writing literary novels such as A Good Man in Africa, has of late turned to thrillers like Ordinary Thunderstorms. He will be the seventh author to have a go at working on Bond.

Portable Potter

For the legion of Harry Potter fans here's some good news. Potter's creator, J K Rowling, who is hard at work on her first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, has confirmed that she is also working on her long-promised encyclopedia of the Harry Potter world. However, she has ruled out another Potter novel. "I have no immediate plans to write another Harry Potter novel, and I do think that I have rounded off Harry's story in the seven published books, " says Rowling.

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For the first time in 35 years, the Pulitzer Prize board has announced there's no fiction prize for 2012. There are some who are blaming the three-member fiction jury who read 341 novels and offered the board a shortlist that was lacking in heft. In the shortlist were: Train Dreams, a novella by Dennis Johnson;David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, unfinished at his death, and completed by his editor;and Swamplandia, the debut novel by Karen Russell.

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