Heathrow's Latest Writer-in-Residence

A “STRANGE ‘non-place’ that we are usually eager to leave”. This is how Alain de Botton, a pop-philosopher and author, described airports in “A Week at the Airport”, the book he wrote after his stint as Heathrow’s writer-in-residence in 2009. Hardly complimentary. Nevertheless Heathrow has decided to repeat the experiment: Tony Parsons, the 57-year-old journalist and author, began his stint as the airport’s official writer earlier this month.