Kim Sherwood (born October 4, 1988) is an author and creative writing lecturer. Born in Camden in 1989, she has taught at the University of Sussex, UWE, and in schools, libraries and prisons, and now lectures at the University of Edinburgh, where she lives in the city.
Her first novel, Testament, was published in 2018. Inspired by the lives of her grandparents – one of whom is a Hungarian Jewish Survivor of the Holocaust, another of whom was a father-figure to her –it follows the impact of the Holocaust across three generations of a family, from 1944 to the present. Testament won the Bath Novel Award and the Harper’s Bazaar Big Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. In 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
Her grandfather was George Baker, who played heraldry expert Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (also providing Bond's voice while he impersonates Bray) and Captain Benson, James Bond's ally in the film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Kim is currently writing a new trilogy of James Bond novels for the Ian Fleming Estate, expanding the universe with a cast of Double O agents for the 21st century. HarperCollins Publishers have acquired the UK & Commonwealth and US & Canadian rights. The first title will be released September 2022.
On her love for James Bond: “It’s rare that dreams come true, and I am grateful to the Fleming family for this incredible opportunity. I feel honoured to be the first novelist to expand the Bond universe through the Double 0-sector, bringing new life to old favourites and fresh characters to the canon.”
As for Bond she says he’s “one of the enduring loves of my life since I first watched Pierce Brosnan dive from the dam in GoldenEye.”
Details about Kim's next literary novel will be announced in Spring 2022.
On October 31, 2022, she reported on social media that she had handed her draft for the second book in her Double 0 trilogy.