The Well-Tempered Clavier

News comes to me from the doughty Juliet - who is not only the stormtrooper of Britain’s reviewers, but also the woman who is standing toe to toe with me in our general distaste for the cover of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
 
Check out Juliet’s blog here. Sober. Serious. A sight more sensible than mine.
 
Juliet has discovered […]

Edinburgh’s Seven Hill Run: A little tougher than a half-marathon, but not quite as tough as the toughest one of them all … I am of course referring to Tough Guy …
 
For the Seven Hills, I had done next to no training.
 
My brother Toby had run four miles a week beforehand - but was not […]

Yet more astonishing news in the, ahem, spine-tingling saga of The Well-Tempered Clavier …
 
A friend of mine genuinely fancies Idle Tom the Publisher!
 
Andrea, was one of The Sun’s few sex-sirens. She’s now just written her first book - out soon. And she  just happens to have a crush on Idle Tom.
 
"I think he looks cute," […]

No stone is left unturned in my quest to plug "The Well-Tempered Clavier".
 
Today, I’ve even wangled a mention in the prestigious, the heavyweight, the impressively perceptive … Wall Street Journal.
 
It was apropos a story on Donald Trump, also known as The Donald.
 
The Donald has been messing around up in Aberdeen trying to hawk his golf-course […]

A phone to Idle Tom the Publisher - just to check that he’s doing what he said he would.
 
"Flights booked for the weekend?"
 
"Flights booked where?" said Idle Tom.
 
"Edinburgh! I thought we’d got it all arranged. You said you’d be staying with your sister and that we’d do this Seven Hills Run together -"
 
"The Seven Hills […]

I’d always thought that Princeton was quite a classy university - up there, at least, with Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge.
 
And yet now I discover that Princeton is on the very verge of including Idle Tom the Publisher in a list of "The World’s Most Accomplished People."
 
"Is this some kind of joke?" I said to Tom. "Are […]

Occasionally I buy up all the "new" copies of The Well-Tempered Clavier that are going on Amazon and Abebooks.
 
These are the copies that are going for two or three quid, and which - even with postage - are one hell of a sight cheaper than buying them from Idle Tom the Publisher.
 
The reason why I’m […]

To Stockton last night, to spread the good news that … ahem … that there’s a heart-warming love story out there that’s been written by a reformed toff. (Or some such. I’ve forgotten what this week’s selling mantra is from Idle Tom the Publisher.)
 
Yes indeed, Stockton was fantastic. It constantly amazes me that people turn […]