The Well-Tempered Clavier

Great news for all you book lovers out there - finally, after more than 13 years apart, two of Britain’s most respected authors are to be reunited on Monday.

It was in 1995 that they met for the first - and last - time. That fateful meeting place was at Heathrow Airport, Terminal One, followed by an all too brief tryst at Brown’s hotel.

And for one of them,  at least, it was a day which he will never forget.

Since that extraordinary meeting, this beautiful pair have each in their own right joined that elite band of Bestselling British Authors, and are now widely perceived to be not only amongst the nation’s most adored writers but also, frankly, some of the greatest talents of their generation. Or any other.

And on Monday, 4pm, at Waterstone’s on Prince’s Street, Edinburgh, they’ll be meeting up again.

Jordan, that is, and my good self. Or at least she used to be known as Jordan in her Page Three days, but is now more commonly known as Katie Price.

“You’ve got to go along,” said Idle Tom the publisher. “If she’s coming up for a signing, you can say hello. Have a word with her. Show her that old picture of the pair of you from your Sun days. Give her a copy of the Clavier.”

“Do you think it’s a good idea?”

“Of course it’s a good idea!” said Tom. “Get your picture taken with her. See if you can snuggle her in to her Double Hs.”

“Tom! I’m married!”

My wife Margot was more circumspect. “Don’t you think you ought to call up her agent first?”

“Probably not. If I call up the agent first, then they might tell me not to come.”

“Sounds like stalking to me -”

* Apologies to the good and worthy burghers of Havering. You’d have thought that I, Fleet Street hack extraordinaire, might be able to get the name of the place right - but no, yet again I messed up. It is my especial talent to get names wrong. On Tuesday I was in fact talking to the Collier Row library. Not some mangled version of that at Collier’s Wood. Apologies to Ella Rayment, the perky librarian. How you getting on with that book, by the way Ella?

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