Superspy, Unicef ambassador – and famed raconteur.

His latest book, says Sir Roger Moore, was written because “I had nothing else to do.”

Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown is a set of stories collected, participated in or overheard from Sir Roger’s decades in show business.

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Sir Roger Moore and wife Lady Kristina at Waterstone's

Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, David Niven and many others all make appearances.

Some of the tales are sure to raise an eyebrow or two, and there are perils to writing about such things, says Sir Roger.

“After the first book I did, I had a letter from a lady who said I was dirty and filthy and disgusting – and she would never see any of my films again.

“But, as I’m not likely to make any…”

Asked whether anything was deemed too risqué to publish, he says: “I can’t remember if I put the dirty ones or the clean ones in.”

(There are a fair few of each.)

In the book’s postscript, Sir Roger recounts a recent trial in having his passport renewed.

Faced with updating Mr Roger Moore to Sir Roger Moore on the document, a clerk asked: “Do you have any proof of that?”

Sir Roger writes he resisted the urge to reply: “Do you know who I am?”

Other moments which bring him back down to earth “with a bump” can happen at airports, he says.

After the rigmarole of passing through security and scanning - “shoes off, jacket off” - “after all that they say, ‘Can we have a picture, can we have an autograph?’

“I say, ‘You’ve got an x-ray – what more do you want?”

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Queuing fans earlier today

People queued out of the door at Waterstone's this afternoon as Sir Roger stopped by on the latest leg of his book-signing tour.

The longest-serving Bond greeted fans in the Bentall Centre alongside his wife, Lady Kristina.

Ahead of the signing, he paid tribute to his close friend Richard Kiel, who died earlier this week, aged 74.

The actor, who famously played villain Jaws in the Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, was a proud father and “an exceedingly intelligent man”, says Sir Roger.

He adds: “People presume that if somebody is physically different to other people, that they must be strange – but he was very bright.

“He was so proud of his children.

“He’s gone to a better place.”