On Sundays Robert plays tennis in Chiswick and last weekend he suggested that I walked there to meet him for lunch. The transition from the, frankly, run-down purlieus of Hammersmith to chi-chi Chiswick is remarkable.
Say goodbye to grubby King Street and hello to Killick (stockbrokers), Waitrose (two branches), upmarket eateries and, yo, secondhand bookshops. Foster Books is a second generation shop with high quality stock.
Close to Turnham Green tube Oxfam has a shop specialising in secondhand books. Here is my haul from them both.
When I lived in Singapore in 1989 I used to watch the Granada TV adaptation of Len Deighton’s trilogy, Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match, but I have never read them. Berlin Game is a first edition, London Match an uncorrected proof signed by LD. Meanwhile on the river by Hammersmith Bridge the bronze of Capability Brown has been repaired.
