Chiswick Timeline of Writers & Books: Latest names

The Chiswick Timeline of Writers & Books lists almost 500 writers who have written a book and lived in Chiswick W4, or written books about the area.  See A Quick Guide.

This is the ‘pending’ page, before authors are added to the main lists every six months or so. There was a further update in September 2024 – details remain to be added here.

Notes and sources: Thank you to everyone who has submitted more names for inclusion. To be included, authors must have lived in Chiswick and written and published a book. We check all references but are happy to make corrections if you know more than we do! If you would like to give further suggestions, comments or information, please email: admin@chiswickbookfestival.net 

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In April 2020, the names below were added to the ‘Non-fiction’ page or ‘Novels, poems and plays’ page. The Year by Year page still has to be updated. In January 2020, the total reached 400 when we added Ant and Dec to the list below. See the story on The Chiswick Calendar, ChiswickW4.com, and the Chiswick Herald – and How It Grew.

Notes and sources: Thank you to everyone who has submitted more names for inclusion. To be included, authors must have lived in Chiswick and written and published a book. We check all references but are happy to make corrections if you know more than we do! If you would like to give further suggestions, comments or information, please email: admin@chiswickbookfestival.net 
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May 2020 onwards.
The following names were added to the main lists in due course.
Jon Elkon – novels – Lazlo’s Millions
Harriet Evans – novels – The Wildflowers
Scott Gronmark – novels – Steel Gods
Angela Rippon – sport, children’s, well-being – Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond
Oliver Soden – biography – Sir Michael Tippett; Jeoffry, the Poet’s Cat
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In April 2020, we added the following 75 names in the Non-fiction and Novels, plays and poems listings.
In due course, these will be incorporated within the Year by year section.
A Quick Guide should help find your way around the Timeline

Tony Aldous – Chiswick’s art, architecture, history – Illustrated London News Book of London’s Villages (chapter)

Kathy Arnold – travel – Thomas Cook, Frommer’s and other travel guides to countries and regions. See also Paul Wade below

Humphrey Arthure – Chiswick’s art, architecture, history – Life and Work in Old Chiswick

Elias Malke Assad – art – Pearls from Heaven

Magdalena Bak-Maier – science, education, health – Body Talk, Get Productive

KC Barnaby – business, industry – 100 years of Specialised Shipbuilding and Engineering; Some Ship Disasters and their Causes

Colin Bamford – law – Principles of International Financial Law

Mary Berry (1763-1852) – journals – Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution,

Alan Bignell – memoir – The Year I Became Al

Fiona Brattle – fashion – The Model’s Handbook

Charles and Edward Bright (1831-1913) – business and industry – The Life Story of Sir Charles Tilston Bright

Nick Brooks – novels, including crime – Betrayed

Ginny Brown (1941 – 2006) – memoir – Swans At My Window 

Carla Capalbo – cookery – Tasting George: A food and wine journey in the Caucasus

Jessie Childs – history – God’s Traitors

Cosmo Clark (1897-1967) – history, memoir – The Tin Trunk

Rev William Cotton (1813-1879) – wildlife – My Bee Book

Gary Critcher – sport – Shutter and Speed

Martin Daly – travel – Tonga, a Bibliography

Nelson Dawson (1859-1941) – design – Goldsmiths’ and Silversmiths’ Work

Brian Dobbs – sport – Black and White: The Birth of Modern Boxing 

Declan Donnelly – biography – Ooh! What A Lovely Pair: Our Story (with Ant McPartlin)

Claudia Flanders (1933-1998) – lyrics (compiler and introduction) – The Songs of Michael Flanders & Donald Swann

Robert Fortune (1812-1880) – horticulture, travel – A Journey to the Tea Countries of China

Ann Francke – business – Create a Gender-Balanced Workplace

Glenn Frankel – journalism – High Noon

Emma Forrest – novels – Namedropper, Royals

Sylvia Freedman – plays and biography – Poor Penelope: Lady Penelope Rich, an Elizabethan Woman

Suzy Grant – coaching, therapy – Alternative Ageing

Sir Percy Harris (1876-1952) – politics – Forty Years In and Out of Parliament, London and its Government

Ada May Harrison – poems, novels, children’s, travel books – The Adventures of Polly Peppermint

Mary Cecil Hay (1839-1886) – novelist – The Squire’s Legacy

Simon Jenkins – Chiswick’s art, architecture and history – The Companion Guide to Outer London (chapter)

Thomas Kennedy – novels, scenes set in Chiswick – The Avery-Stripes

Michael Kerr – biography – Virtuoso (John Ogdon)

Vyvyan Kinross – diplomacy – Information Warriors

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lord (President of ArtsEd) – memoir – Unmasked

Patricia Lousada (1929-2019) cookery – Pasta Italian Style, American Baking and many others

Desmond Lynam – stage, screen, radio – I Should Have Been at Work

Virginia Makins – education – The Invisible Children

Mark Malloch Brown, Lord – politics, diplomacy – The Unfinished Global Revolution 

Jose Manser – art – Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan

Robin Marris, Professor (1924-2012) – economics – Ending Poverty

Alec Marsh – novels – Rule Britannia

Helen Martin – travel  – Lot: Travels through a limestone landscape in southwest France

Ant McPartlin – biography – Ooh! What A Lovely Pair: Our Story (with Declan Donnelly)

Ralph Miliband (1924-1994) – economics, politics – Marxism and Politics, The State in Capitalist Society. See Ralph Miliband and Chiswick Library

Tim Moore – travel – Do Not Pass Go, Gironimo and many others

Matt Myers – politics – Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation

Rev Martine Oborne – children’s  – Hamilton’s Hats 

Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) – politics – An Historical Memoir: Ireland and the Irish

Robert Oulds – history – Montgomery and the First War On Terror

Denis Postle – psychology – Fabric of the Universe

Patrick Riddell – plays – Defence in Depth and other BBC radio plays

Erin Pizzey – politics, campaigning, Chiswick Women’s Aid  – Scream quietly or the neighbours will hear

William P Roe – Chiswick history – Glimpses of Chiswick’s Place in History

Sir Francis Ronalds (1788-1873) – engineering, science – A Description of an Electric Telegraph

Helen Sedgwick – novelist – The Growing Season, When the Dead Come Calling 

Christine Shaw – Chiswick history – The Rebuilding of Chiswick Vicarage (1657-8)

Louise Silverton – medicine – The Art and Science of Midwifery

Rob Sprackling – screenwriter – Gnomeo & Juliet – and children’s – Born Again Ben

Imogen Stubbs – plays – We Happy Few

Alison Taylor – environment, education – Guide to Education and the River Thames

Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672) – theology – Of the Government of Churches

Alan Toop – business – Only £3.95?!

Carol Townend – romantic novels, history – Shattered Vows and many more

Roger Tredre – fashion – The Great Fashion Designers

Thomas Harrington Tuke (1826-1888) – science, medicine – journal papers

Liz Vercoe – journalism – Where to live in London?

Professor Fred Vine – science – journal papers

Paul Wade – Travel – Thomas Cook, Frommer’s and other travel guides to countries and regions. See also Kathy Arnold above. And Sport – Sports Injuries

Jutta Wagner – gardening – The Family Kitchen Garden

Martin Wainwright – travel, biography, environment – Guardian Book of the Countryside and others

Frederick Walton (1834-1928) – business – The Infancy and Development of Linoleum

Gordon Wansborough-White – military – Names with Wings

Commodore Ronald Warwick – shipping – QE2: The Cunard Line Flagship, Queen Elizabeth 2

Annette Wendland – gardening – The Family Kitchen Garden

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) – artist, wit – The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Roderick White – business – Advertising: What it is and How to do it

Stephanie White – Chiswick history – Down Memory Lane

Christopher Wilk – design, furniture – Modernism

Lewis Pinhorn Wood (1848-1918) – children’s – Harry Goodchild’s Day Dream

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