The Tumbrel Diaries

After A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook , lately published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , I am not incl...

A major development in respect of the chair. Using his new laptop computer and a wireless internet connection, Uncle Tony writes from a c...

Most authors run the risk of tackling a subtopic in far greater detail than is necessary, and need to be rescued from that hazardous path by...

The chair in no way relates to my new book, The Finger: A Handbook —an ideal gift, incidentally, for typists, harpists, pianists, erotoman...

A few months ago, before my new book, The Finger: A Handbook , was published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , I inherited from my...

At first I thought it was a sinister warning from some local branch of the mafia, in connection with an unwitting violation on my part of th...

I think Uncle John would have enjoyed The Finger: A Handbook , just as he got a big kick out of A Brief History of the Smile . During the...

On special occasions, such as the recent publication of The Finger: A Handbook , or A Brief History of the Smile , I wear this ring, which w...

The Finger: A Handbook is out, and there is a steady flow of reviews in print and on-line. It’s an odd business. On the one hand you can’t ...

Sheep make me homesick. I’ve been reading Mum’s reminiscences about growing up at Raeshaw, the family property at Fulham, a few miles west ...