The latest instalment of the 'James Bond" book series has been titled "Solo," announced writer William Boyd.

Author William Boyd revealed the titled of the latest "James Bond" book Monday during the London Book Fair. According to the announcement, the book has been titled "Solo."

Boyd said: "In my novel, events conspire to make Bond go off on a self-appointed mission of his own, unannounced and without any authorisation - and he's fully prepared to take the consequences of his audacity."

Other details of the book were not revealed but Boyd did mention that this new book will see the 45- year-old agent travel across Africa and America. Ian Fleming Publications, the publishing house that is responsible for all the James Bond literary works, said the title totally fitted into the "Bond canon."

Richard Cable, managing director of the book's publishers, Vintage, called "Solo" an "absolutely brilliant book".

On his choice of title, Boyd said: "Sometimes less is more. For me as a novelist the simple beauty of Solo as the title of the next James Bond novel is that this short four-letter word is particularly and strikingly apt for the novel I have written. Titles are very important to me and as soon as I wrote down Solo on a sheet of paper I saw its potential. Not only did it fit the theme of the novel perfectly, it's also a great punchy word, instantly and internationally comprehensible, graphically alluring and, as an extra bonus, it's strangely Bondian in the sense that we might be subliminally aware of the '00' of '007' lurking just behind those juxtaposed O's of SOLO ..."