AUTHORS Mark Lawson and Julie Myerson entertained an audience of more than 50 book lovers at the Arts Centre.

The duo interviewed each other on their latest literary offerings as part of the Swindon Festival of Literature yesterday.

Mr Lawson, an award-winning journalist, cultural columnist and television and radio critic visited the Devizes Road Arts Centre to promote his most recent book, Enough Is Enough, which centres on British politics between 1968 and 1994.

Ms Myerson, meanwhile, talked about her latest novel, The Story Of You, a tale of a mother and wife who is taken back to a time of love before her family.

The two authors, who are good friends, talked about their inspirations, whether their books were autobiographical and also whether they believed in ghosts.

The duo's exchanges proved a source of much entertainment to their fans, particularly when Mr Lawson asked why his opposite number's books often included husbands being killed and whether her own husband should be at all worried.

And with a summary of his own book, Mr Lawson brought the room to life with his story of a paranoid Harold Wilson, convinced his Chancellor of the Exchequer was trying to oust him from government.