Adventures in a London Bookshop

not quite a conversation with Ian McEwan

I ONCE met Ian McEwan at a book signing. Actually, "met” is slightly misleading. I’m not sure what the appropriate word would be. Not “encountered”: that would imply an element of chance, and since book signings are prearranged I don’t suppose that will do either. Anyway, it was at Hatchard’s bookshop in London’s Piccadilly in 2010, and the first time I…