Daniel J. T. McKay is a Cambridge-based historian, dabbling illustrator, and raconteur. He is the scion of a long line of cattle farmers in the Australian outback. Growing up in a terrible drought, he learnt to draw in the dust of a dry creek-bed. Having since sought out a green and pleasant land, his attention is now constantly being fought over by serious old things in serious old books, and all the other whimwondrous nonsense which is ransacked from his imagination and scrawled and scroobled upon the page by ink-smudged hands.

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Agatha Aspinal’s Auspicious Archaeofuturometer; Bertram, Bishop of Bumblechester’s Brilliant Bustdustbuster; Charlotte Chomondeley-Coyte’s Curious Custardolopododdler; Daphne, Duchess of Dorsetshire’s Delightful Drinkibbledibbler; Eustace Eddington Esq.’s Enormous Endowerwhopper; Flossie FitzFrederick’s Ferocious Fiendboshdongle; General George Gillis-Garsington-Gilfeather’s Grandiloquent Gramophubbubler; The Hon. Hugh Hampton-Holdsworth’s Haggard Hourhaggler; Isolde Inchebrooke’s Irascible Inlinequekeeper; John St. John Jr.’s Jolly Jigglegigglejigger; Katherine Knoughborough’s Kindly Kittencareener; Lady Larissa Longmore’s Laudable Ludditetrongler; Messrs MacMavor, Milton & Mappin’s Mollifying Melanchollycoddler; Norbertina Norrington’s Nimble Nookbookling; Ophelia Osborne’s Obsessive Oddsockmeetsocker; Professor Peregrine Prufrock-Parker’s Pleasant Passionsmoocher; The Queen’s Quarrelsome Quibbler; The Rupertswood Rugby & Rowing Club’s Ravenous Recipidishler; Sir Saul Saintsbury-Sims’ Salubrious Swaggerumpusoon; Teddy T. Trevelyan III’s Tasteful Triglyphodraughter; Uncle Uriah’s Uncomfortable Unspokenator; Vita, Viscountess Vanburgh’s Verdant Vinevertuperator; Wilhelmina Waslett’s Winsome Waxwaner; Xerxes’s Xylocmacing Xylocanidivonator; Yolanda Yarborough’s Yearning Yonderywander; Zurishaddai Zirdlestone’s Zooshing Zenithender