From Bombay to Bond: Murder, spies and lies
Vaseem’s slideshow presentation will take us on an exhilarating (and humorous!) journey from the post-Independence complexities of India – via his award-winning Malabar House mystery novels, set in 1950s Bombay – to contemporary Britain’s MI6 and the exploits of James Bond and Q. His new murder mystery series, aimed at fans of Mick Herron and Richard Osman, and beginning with Quantum of Menace, brings to life one of fiction’s most iconic characters – but who was the real Q? Vaseem will look at the end of the Raj, the evolution of the Bond franchise, and the worst gadgets to come out of Q Branch…
