Novel chap who likes the company of travelling folk, cod mornay and whiskey (6,3)
I believe the answer is:
romany rye
'novel chap who likes the company of travelling folk' is the definition.
(character from the George Henry Borrow novel)
'cod mornay and whiskey' is the wordplay.
'cod' is an anagram indicator (cod can mean fake or inauthentic).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'whiskey' becomes 'rye' (rye whiskey is a type of whiskey).
'mornay' is an anagram of 'romany'.
'romany'+'rye'='ROMANY RYE'
(Other definitions for romany rye that I've seen before include "LITERATURE" , "Fellow traveller, as it were" , "One having the gypsy spirit" , "Borrow book" .)