Kim Sherwood's A Spy Like Me had its official launch on Saturday 27th April at Dukes Hotel in London. It was my pleasure to be not only an organiser but also the emcee for the evening. The centrepiece of the event was a conversation between Kim and me with a follow-up Q&A. You can listen to a recording of that here!

In conversation with David Lowbridge-Ellis, Kim Sherwood uncovers everything you need to know about the writing of the addictively enjoyable Bond thriller, A Spy Like Me.

A Spy Like Me is that rare achievement, being both an addictively readable thriller and a work of great Literature (with a capital L). To the list of literary thriller writers begun by Fleming, which included Poe, Hammett, Chandler, Ambler and Greene, we can now add another: Sherwood.

On their most recent trip to Tokyo, David and Antony really didn’t expect to find themselves in a lesbian bar themed around James Bond. Nor could they quite believe it when the owner herself was up for being interviewed about her Bond fandom and how ‘women only’ carries a different meaning in Japanese culture.

On 1st April, we choose to wear tweed and raise money for charity in homage to brass rubbing enthusiast Sir Hilary Bray and the man who brought him to life - George Baker.

According to Gentleman’s Gazette, "Tweed is as close to British national dress as you might get”, so it’s fitting that Bond, that other icon of Britishness with Scottish origins, has worn it on multiple occasions - on screen that is. In the books, Bond only wears tweed once. Why is this? Why does Fleming put his villains in the fabric but rarely his hero? And does Fleming’s own wardrobe give us any insights into how he felt about tweed?

In this unique film, award-winning Bond author Kim Sherwood and Licence to Queer's David Lowbridge-Ellis sit down to watch together the Bond film appearances of Kim's grandfather, George Baker - the man who Fleming wanted to play Bond.

On 29 March 2014, same-sex marriage became legally possible in England and Wales, something that nine-year-old David could never have fathomed happening back when he was perturbed by watching James Bond get married in You Only Live Twice. Having been happily married for almost all of the last decade himself, why does it still feel like he’s living in a dream?

James Bond comics predate the films and are still going strong today. This new series of podcasts starts with a run through of Bond’s history with ‘sequential art’ before segueing into a review of the first arc of the modern Dynamite series: VARGR by Warren Ellis and Jason Marsters.

We’ll be starting our upcoming #TimeToDonate charity watchalong/drinkalong of Casino Royale around 9am. But if we start with the signature drink of that story - Vesper Martinis - we'll be wiped out before lunchtime! This twist on a classic Champagne cocktail (made with English sparkling wine) will work for breakfast time - or any time.

Antony and David debate the merits of the various Bond comic books published by Dynamite Entertainment, including the new run by Garth Ennis. As usual for the 'Our Month' podcast, they look back on the many ways Bond has intersected with their daily lives and look forward to the major events happening in the coming months. They also create a new cocktail: the Casino Royale.