The Chiswick Timeline of Writers & Books lists around 425 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.
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
May 2020 onwards.
The following names will be 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
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