The inestimable Mr Frank Key - also known as Paul Byrne - died last week. There really was nobody like him, was there? Frank was the first regular columnist we recruited, and Key’s Cupboard ran every Friday, more or less without fail, from August 2010 to February 2016. Those years were, without any ... Read More...
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Look out next week for the launch of By Aerostat to Hooting Yard: A Frank Key Reader, published by Dabbler Editions for the Kindle. The ebook contains 147 stories selected by nonsense aficionado Roland Clare, and is an ideal introduction for the newcomer and a handy 'best of' compendium for ... Read More...
Although I rarely write about current affairs, either here at The Dabbler or over at Hooting Yard, I am an avid reader of the press, in both traditional and new media forms, and I like to keep abreast of what is going on in the world. For the final Key's ... Read More...
I had a hammer. I hammered in the morning. I hammered in the evening all over this land. I hammered out danger. I hammered out a warning. I hammered out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land. They should have seen that coming. As I said, ... Read More...
Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives - bringing you absurdly abbreviated biographies of the great men and women of history - is published by Constable and is available to buy now. It makes an ideal Christmas present. Dabbler editor Andrew Nixon ('Brit') has written the preface, a version of which we reproduce ... Read More...
Back in September 2013, Frank Key posted on The Dabbler his idea of writing a book of very, very brief lives. Thanks in part to the enthusiastic reaction of the Dabbler audience and commenters, this idea has now become a reality, and Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives will ... Read More...
Back in September 2013, Frank Key posted on The Dabbler his idea of writing a book of very, very brief lives. Thanks in part to the enthusiastic reaction of the Dabbler audience and commenters, this idea has now become a reality, and Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives will ... Read More...
Back in September 2013, Frank Key posted on The Dabbler his idea of writing a book of very, very brief lives. Thanks in part to the enthusiastic reaction of the Dabbler audience and commenters, this idea has now become a reality, and Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives will ... Read More...
Back in September 2013, Frank Key posted on The Dabbler his idea of writing a book of very, very brief lives. Thanks in part to the enthusiastic reaction of the Dabbler audience and commenters, this idea has now become a reality, and Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives will ... Read More...
We are honoured once again to publish Old Key's Almanacke, a series of unerringly accurate (as you will see from the last edition) predictions for the coming twelvemonth... January : Police swoop on all living octogenarian light entertainers not yet arrested under Operation Yewtree. February : Twitcher spots corncrake through binoculars. March : ... Read More...
