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Born 1953
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Cambridge graduate
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Worked as journalist with the Daily Telegraph and the Independent
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Gave up journalism in 1991 to concentrate on writing novels
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British Book Awards Author of the year, 1995
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Awarded the CBE in 2002
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Has recently been commissioned by
the Ian Fleming estate to write a new James Bond novel to mark the centenary
of Ian Fleming's birth in 2008
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