Patrick Kincaid
@patrickkincaid.bsky.social
Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing.
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I’ve got a perfectly good Christmassy novel set over the festive season in 1933, involving Loch Ness Monster hunters and rival journalists and a love-lorn, bereaved 13-year-old hero, just sitting on my hard drive waiting to be read. Next Christmas, maybe.
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Love how Bone Temple is the sweetest, warmest relationship story, while at the same time containing moments of genuine horror, gore and revulsion. What a film.
January 19, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Love how Bone Temple is the sweetest, warmest relationship story, while at the same time containing moments of genuine horror, gore and revulsion. What a film.
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Stewart Lee telling Harry Hill about Zack Sabre Jr. is an unexpected surprise. ZSJ of the WWF.
January 19, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Stewart Lee telling Harry Hill about Zack Sabre Jr. is an unexpected surprise. ZSJ of the WWF.
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
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What is it about Game of Thrones that makes its creator worry that finishing it won’t make its fans happy ever? Where has he got that idea from?
George R.R. Martin has said that if he never completes Game of Thrones sequel Winds of Winter (or the book after that), there's no plan for anyone else to step in. Instead, his Song of Ice and Fire series simply "won't be finished."
Game of Thrones Writer George R.R. Martin Says There's No Plan if He Dies Before Completing Winds of Winter, and the Series Simply 'Won't Be Finished'
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January 19, 2026 at 8:15 AM
What is it about Game of Thrones that makes its creator worry that finishing it won’t make its fans happy ever? Where has he got that idea from?
Bowled over by 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple. Loved the previous one too, and have no idea why there was such strong feeling against it. And there tends to be affection for the first sequel, which is a pretty ropey quicky exploitation of the first film.
January 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Bowled over by 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple. Loved the previous one too, and have no idea why there was such strong feeling against it. And there tends to be affection for the first sequel, which is a pretty ropey quicky exploitation of the first film.
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The Smelt store is now open for business: if 5,000 of you are willing to chip in £10 plus fees each, we can make some brilliant things
Leadmojo.co.uk/smelt
Leadmojo.co.uk/smelt
January 19, 2026 at 10:14 AM
The Smelt store is now open for business: if 5,000 of you are willing to chip in £10 plus fees each, we can make some brilliant things
Leadmojo.co.uk/smelt
Leadmojo.co.uk/smelt
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How are things in general?
January 19, 2026 at 9:50 AM
How are things in general?
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In REP this week:
Monday - our Palaeography group will transcribe rates of pay for Tudor carpenters
Tuesday- the Playmakers will irked to discover that the word “anonymity” isn’t recorded before 1695
Wednesday - we read The Widow, which probably isn’t written by two of the people mentioned here.
Monday - our Palaeography group will transcribe rates of pay for Tudor carpenters
Tuesday- the Playmakers will irked to discover that the word “anonymity” isn’t recorded before 1695
Wednesday - we read The Widow, which probably isn’t written by two of the people mentioned here.
January 19, 2026 at 10:38 AM
In REP this week:
Monday - our Palaeography group will transcribe rates of pay for Tudor carpenters
Tuesday- the Playmakers will irked to discover that the word “anonymity” isn’t recorded before 1695
Wednesday - we read The Widow, which probably isn’t written by two of the people mentioned here.
Monday - our Palaeography group will transcribe rates of pay for Tudor carpenters
Tuesday- the Playmakers will irked to discover that the word “anonymity” isn’t recorded before 1695
Wednesday - we read The Widow, which probably isn’t written by two of the people mentioned here.
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in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing
January 19, 2026 at 8:10 AM
in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing
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I've just discovered this is part of a whole season of BBC Ibsen adaptations and they're all on iPlayer.
January 18, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I've just discovered this is part of a whole season of BBC Ibsen adaptations and they're all on iPlayer.
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Birds seen today:
33 Canada goose
25 mallard
5 black-headed gull
25 redwing
5 song thrush
8 robin
43 carrion crow
1 blackbird
3 auras of wren
6 small brown and distant
14 tiny indeterminate flitters
6 quivering bush
4 fuck knows
7 come out of there and show your face you little bastard
33 Canada goose
25 mallard
5 black-headed gull
25 redwing
5 song thrush
8 robin
43 carrion crow
1 blackbird
3 auras of wren
6 small brown and distant
14 tiny indeterminate flitters
6 quivering bush
4 fuck knows
7 come out of there and show your face you little bastard
January 18, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Birds seen today:
33 Canada goose
25 mallard
5 black-headed gull
25 redwing
5 song thrush
8 robin
43 carrion crow
1 blackbird
3 auras of wren
6 small brown and distant
14 tiny indeterminate flitters
6 quivering bush
4 fuck knows
7 come out of there and show your face you little bastard
33 Canada goose
25 mallard
5 black-headed gull
25 redwing
5 song thrush
8 robin
43 carrion crow
1 blackbird
3 auras of wren
6 small brown and distant
14 tiny indeterminate flitters
6 quivering bush
4 fuck knows
7 come out of there and show your face you little bastard
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Thinking about him (the man standing in front of me at a The Fall gig, who, about two songs in, loudly exclaimed “oh, no. No thank you” downed his pint and left
January 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Thinking about him (the man standing in front of me at a The Fall gig, who, about two songs in, loudly exclaimed “oh, no. No thank you” downed his pint and left
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In case anyone is wondering, 1983 is my "lost novel". It came between Villager and Everything Will Swallow You but was published while my ex-publishers were on their final, spavined legs. Which meant it barely got in any shops & a lot of people don't know it exists. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
January 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM
In case anyone is wondering, 1983 is my "lost novel". It came between Villager and Everything Will Swallow You but was published while my ex-publishers were on their final, spavined legs. Which meant it barely got in any shops & a lot of people don't know it exists. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
January 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
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It's gone a bit Man in The High Castle other there, hasn't it.
January 18, 2026 at 12:47 PM
It's gone a bit Man in The High Castle other there, hasn't it.
To make it clear, I turned a blind eye to the use of F for long s in the novel. I mean, I had to put some effort in, but I managed it.
Just read umpteenth discussion on historical accuracy in the movie Hamnet. Not seen it yet, but as a historical novelist I know the foolish pursuit of historical accuracy is the hobgoblin of little minds. As a birder though, I’m startled by reports that a Harris Hawk stands in for a Kestrel…
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 AM
To make it clear, I turned a blind eye to the use of F for long s in the novel. I mean, I had to put some effort in, but I managed it.
Just read umpteenth discussion on historical accuracy in the movie Hamnet. Not seen it yet, but as a historical novelist I know the foolish pursuit of historical accuracy is the hobgoblin of little minds. As a birder though, I’m startled by reports that a Harris Hawk stands in for a Kestrel…
January 18, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Just read umpteenth discussion on historical accuracy in the movie Hamnet. Not seen it yet, but as a historical novelist I know the foolish pursuit of historical accuracy is the hobgoblin of little minds. As a birder though, I’m startled by reports that a Harris Hawk stands in for a Kestrel…
I’m not keen on the AI implications of the images doing the rounds of people giving up their awards to Donald Trump. But I did laugh at one I just saw of Jabba the Hutt handing over Han Solo suspended in carbonite.
January 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I’m not keen on the AI implications of the images doing the rounds of people giving up their awards to Donald Trump. But I did laugh at one I just saw of Jabba the Hutt handing over Han Solo suspended in carbonite.
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Julian Barnes's departure: his cancer, his deaf dog, Martin Amis's last email to him, and why he's stopping writing novels so that he doesn't die in the middle of one and have some other bastard finish it for him.
Me on Barnes's final book:
Me on Barnes's final book:
Julian Barnes bids farewell: ‘My cancer and I will trundle along until the day I die’
In his final book, Departure(s), the Booker-winning author explores love death, and ageing
www.thetimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Julian Barnes's departure: his cancer, his deaf dog, Martin Amis's last email to him, and why he's stopping writing novels so that he doesn't die in the middle of one and have some other bastard finish it for him.
Me on Barnes's final book:
Me on Barnes's final book:
I’m one of those people who can’t really ignore the Special Relationship, so here’s what I have to say about it.
January 18, 2026 at 9:55 AM
I’m one of those people who can’t really ignore the Special Relationship, so here’s what I have to say about it.
Turns out past me wasn’t a bad judge of character.
January 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Turns out past me wasn’t a bad judge of character.
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I thought this was pretty great! Peter O'Toole tries to kill Hitler and the gestapo don't take it well. Should be the plot of most films. He gets his fingernails pulled, which doesn't slow him down much. The film is probably overly wry for some. Every line of dialogue is ripe and amusing.
January 17, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I thought this was pretty great! Peter O'Toole tries to kill Hitler and the gestapo don't take it well. Should be the plot of most films. He gets his fingernails pulled, which doesn't slow him down much. The film is probably overly wry for some. Every line of dialogue is ripe and amusing.
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If I ever go live on BSKY I’ve been kidnapped.
January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
If I ever go live on BSKY I’ve been kidnapped.