Roderick Gordon’s Journal

A chatter of authors at lunch after the Chicken House tenth anniversary party last Friday – from right to left; Andrew Newbound, Sophia Bennett, Lucy Christopher, CJ  Skuse, Ross MacKenzie – with the infinite, incomparable and inestimable Barry Cunningham in the foreground – Di Toft, Pat Walsh, Brian “The Hat” Williams, and me. All the characters we’ve created were relegated to the room next door where they were fighting it out with each other. Jaw-rattling racket for around ten minutes, then the Styx emerged victorious, of course.