I've been doing a lot of this.
The writing continues. On trains, in the Royal Festival Hall, at home... And I may just have found a new location. Whilst out walking earlier in the week, I wandered into St James Square, Mayfair to check out this place:
Annual membership is not cheap but you can get a day pass for £10 if you remember to take along proof of a UK address. Then you could find yourself working surrounded by books like these:
The lady on reception was lovely and helpful and it was only the hushed tones and leather panelled tables that intimidated me. I'd like to give it a go, coming here to work one day. There's internet access and power points for laptops and 15 miles of open-access bookshelves. So if you have some research to do for your latest chapter, this place could be a gold mine! Tom Stoppard, Simon Callow and David Nicholls are all known to use this library, so you might bump into someone interesting, too.
Finding good writing locations is always difficult, but for a tenner - when some writing retreats charge £30 a day - this could be just the ticket. I intend to find out. And just in case you need the opening hours, a final snap from moi:
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