Personalities
Manners, Monkeys and a Moat of Tea
He emptied his grandfather's shed to build an imaginary chocolate-biscuit machine. Forty years on, he is still doing much the same thing - only now it…
Author
Ima von Wenden
Personalities
The Rakes' Progress
One of them wrote a Reformation rap battle between Luther and Leo X. The other canoed under the Rialto singing "Greensleeves" until a naked man tried…
Features
The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums. The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under the club clock, a dinosaur-hunter chairing symposia…
Personalities
The Fabulous Czainskis
He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to rescue a silver woman in pieces.
Personalities
The Six Faces of Lucy Freud
She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.
Editor at the Roost
Dare To Be Eccentric?
In defence of originality in an age of conformity