Hopes are revving up for a legal double in the Orwell prize for non-fiction writing. Last year it was won by Lord Bingham, for The Rule of Law. This year, lawyers are represented by Nigel Winter, senior associate at Sussex firm Rawlison Butler.

Winter’s Travelling with Mr Turner is an account of a slow journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a Triumph motorcycle. (The Mr Turner of the title was the engineer Edward Turner, designer of the classic Triumph Bonneville.) It’s had rave reviews from the specialist press - ‘Read it’, says Old Bike Mart - and Winter tells us it’s been serialised in France and well received in the US. ‘It has also turned up in an academic publication known as the International Journal Of Motorcycle Studies.’

We’re keeping our fingers crossed for 28 March, when the Orwell long lists will be announced.