JET-SETTING

Tuesday was the annual Orion authors' party at the Royal Opera House, which was lots of fun, chatting to old friends like Jainne Fenn, Suzanne McLeod, Joe Abercrombie, Al Reynolds and loadsa others, including agents John Jarrold and Diana Tyler (who don't represent me) as well as John P and John B who do... Marvellous. Then I stayed at my London club (an overworn phrase from me this week), did some work at the Institute of Physics (oh, gawd, will he just get over himself?), popped into a couple of museums, and now I'm back home in the wilderness, with the big city a fading dream...