Simon Trewin

Hello - Word reaches me from Robin Cooper, Brondesbury Villas’ most famous resident, that his diaries are to be published by those clever people at Little Brown who, having published both Nelson Mandela and Ewan McGregor, know a little bit about working with iconic figures. Oh yes. THE TIMEWASTER DIARIES are available from July 5th and, in a shock development, the BBC in their wisdom is allowing Paul Whitehouse to read extracts for an entire week on Radio 4 as their ‘Book Of The Week’. A worthy follow-up to his 250,000 selling volumes of letters I am confident Mr Cooper’s peculiar sense of time and place will win him thousand of new fans.