The Well-Tempered Clavier

Ann Morgan: What a star.
Did an interview with me for the Roundtable Review - and here it is:
Ann’s review
Far, far more generous to me than I have ever been to any of my interviewees …
Not that I’ve invented (many) quotes.
But still, if you do an hour-long interview, you’ve got more than enough quotes there to […]

Wee Geordie and his mummy …
Heat Magazine, arbiter of all things stylish and tasteful, has listed The Well-Tempered Clavier in their Top Ten books this week. New in at number eight - and beating, believe it or not, Gordon Ramsay’s “Chef” and “Borat”.
Here’s what Heat says: “This sweet tale about a schoolboy who falls for […]

Just in case you don’t read any of the comments in this blog, Idle Tom the publisher has been trying to engage in banter. Never really his forte. I know he tries hard. He tries so very hard. But he always comes across as some sort of whining, acned teenager - which, I suppose, is […]

Geordie - with crisps and Coke. A hog in heaven.
After considerable research I have yet to come across a single person who rates the cover of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
I did a book club in Edinburgh on Thursday and the women were scathing in the extreme about the raunchiness and generally non-literary feel of the cover.
“I […]

It’s time to introduce another member of the Legend Press staff - the lovely Emma.
Now Emma is considerate, thoughtful, diligent, efficient, has a very good ear for prose, and, in almost every respect is the polar opposite of Idle Tom the publisher.
Sometimes it truly feels as if Idle Tom is the work-experience boy, just loafing […]

“No Dad, don’t do it!”

I don’t know how it has occurred, but Idle Tom, the bittersweet publisher, has become something of a central character in this blog …
Yesterday, for instance, Idle Tom had another of his witheringly good ideas:
“I’ve been thinking,” said Tom.
“Oh boy …”
“Do you think there might be any mileage to be had about this Amazon listing? […]

The phone rings. It’s Idle Tom, the bittersweet publisher.
"Hello Idle Tom," I say. "Are you looking forward to meeting all the good burghers of Alresford on Friday evening? They’re champing at the bit to meet you."
"Ah yes," said the idle one. "It was actually that that I was calling up about."
"What?" I said. "You’re not […]