I've just had the inestimable pleasure of entertaining Mr Chris Turner, "a provocative new writer" (Amazon.co.uk) and author of Planet Simpson, in my achingly fashionable Shepherds Bush Manhattan-loft-style pad. He's had an excellent time in London this week (well he was here for Summer!) and even managed to be guest-of-honour at our latest Impro workshop "Status and Scene Development" which has got to be better than Richard and Judy.

One thing I'll remember was our trip to the pub to see England v Poland. Who knew that O'Neils in Shepherds Bush would be packed to the rafters with Poles! I know the Patio Restaraunt (London's topermost Polish nosh - discuss?) is across the road but it was quite a surprise nevertheless. England's goals were greated with enthusiastic cheers from, erm, about 10 of us. When Poland scored the entire place went nuts! Polish euphoria swept the room and out into the streets. It was Gdansk 1981 all over again except I don't remember footage of old Lech singing "Polska! Polska!" to the tune of "Go West" by the Village People. (More's the pity - I always felt Solidarity was disco-lite). The air was thick with the sounds of rarely-combined consonants. It was great stuff. But I'm glad we won!

All this tom-japery meant I had no time to ask Turner what he made of my research on Amazon.co.uk. Apparently "Customers who bought books by Chris Turner also bought books by these authors:"

Judith Bray (author of Land Law)
Jo Coles (author of Constitutional and Administrative Law)
Slavoj Zizek (who brought us the imortal Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan: (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)!)
Catherine Elliott (Contract Law)
Beverley Hopkins (Evidence)

Was he targetting film-loving lawyers? Perhaps new marketing material should reflect this..