Last night I was glad to participate in the local author’s event of the Chiswick Book Festival, and I’m excited to have been included on their prestigious list of local authors from the place I call home. The list reaches back to Alexander Pope in 1688, and includes authors like WB Yeats, EM Forster, Anthony Burgess, Iris Murdoch, Eric Morecambe, JG Ballard, Harold Pinter, Lynne Redgrave, and Roger Daltry (yes, of The Who, and he did write a book, too). And now I am some tiny part of perhaps the most literary neighbourhood in London. Who’d a thunkit?