Quintin Jardine's blog

Oh yes, Chris, I knew your father. Allan and I were colleagues in the 1970s: a man who was universally liked and who’s still mourned by everyone who knew him. He had a fund of stories, including one about a popular entertainer of the time who visited his restaurant, and . . . here I quote . . . ‘Took my breath away.’ You had to listen to him all the time, in case a great one-liner slipped past. The last time I saw him was at the signing table at the Edinburgh Book Festival; you might even have been with him. Lovely man; God bless him