What do Bacon, Goethe, Machiavelli, Lorca and Penningtons property associate Caroline Summerfield all have in common?
Why, of course, they are all lawyer/playwrights.

Admittedly, Summerfield is marginally less famous than the rest – but she is a hot tip for the future.
And anyone who doesn’t believe us can always pop along to see the premier of her latest play – An Honest Politician – in the Ondaatje lecture theatre at the National Portrait Gallery this Sunday (19 May).