Samantha Weinberg – författare

A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor – 400 million years old – a four-limbed dinofish!In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman’s trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anything she had ever seen. The museum board members dismissed it as a common lungfish, but when Marjorie eventually contacted Professor JLB Smith, he immediately identified her fish as a coelacanth – a species known to have lived 400 million years ago, and believed by many scientists to be the evolutionary missing link – the first creature to crawl out of the sea. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer had thus made the century’s greatest zoological discovery. But Smith needed a live or frozen specimen to verify the discovery, so began his search for another coelacanth, to which he devoted his life.

The perfect example of chic sophistication and unflappable poise, Miss Jane Moneypeny - personal Secretary to Secret Service chief M - handles her boss and her cohort of unruly 00 agents with good-humoured grace. Yet, behind her polished perfection, she exudes a certain aura of mystery . . .Indeed, as her explosive private diaries reveal, there is more to Miss Moneypenny than meets the eye. When she hears that her favourite agent James Bond's secret Cuban mission is jeopardised and his life in danger, she impulsively plunges into the glamorous, dangerous world of espionage to save his skin. Guardian Angel is the first entry in Kate Westbrook''s Moneypenny Diaries trilogy

Jane Moneypenny may project a cool, calm and collected image but her private diaries reveal a rather different story. In the grip of an uncertain love affair and haunted by a dark family secret, the last thing she needs is a crisis at work. But the Secret Intelligence Service is in chaos. One senior officer is on trial for treason, another has defected to Moscow . . . and worst of all, her beloved James Bond has been brainwashed by the KGB. Only a woman''s touch can save them.Soon, Miss Moneypenny finds herself alone on a dangerous Russian mission, embroiled in a highly-charged adventure infused with the glamour of the Cold War espionage game. Secret Servant is the second thrilling entry in Kate Westbrook''s Moneypenny Diaries trilogy.