This was 2021 — a festival curated by #TerryHall at Coventry Cathedral for the City of Culture year. He’s belting out Gangsters in the cathedral ruins, backed by The Libertines.
Patrick Kincaid
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Novelist. Immigrant. Doctor of Shakespeare. Master of Writing. Workshops for Prisoners with Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival. Convenor of Write Club Leamington Spa. Teacher. #amwriting.
Yesterday was baking day, which meant my famous rosemary and gruyère loaf. Okay, okay, Yotem Ottolenghi’s… Anyway, happy with how it turned out.
It’s the holidays. I’m swaddled in my dressing gown, post-Covid. Time for an old favourite. #amreading
According to NHS site I’m not contagious (this is day 13). I felt fine Wednesday but now the cough has returned and I don’t believe my voice can last till lunchtime. Will definitely give staff Chrimbo night a miss… #covid
Anyway, it wasn’t a cold. Here’s he test from yesterday. Last night was hell. Somewhat better today.
This, with its curling cover, is the last copy I own of my #debutnovel #TheContinuityGirl (#Unbound, 2018). The handful of people who read it said nice things — I was very pleased with the cover quote because I knew #JonathanCoe isn’t only a fine novelist, but is perhaps the most vocal fan of the #BillyWilder masterpiece #ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes , the shoot for which forms the novel’s backdrop.
My debut #TheContinuityGirl was published by #Unbound in 2018. It is set during the Highlands shoot for Billy Wilder’s magnificent but mangled #ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes. Here’s my interview with Adrian Shine of the #LochNess Investigation Bureau. Among other things he describes when he found Wilder’s model #Nessie on the bed of the loch… https://unbound.com/books/the-continuity-girl/updates/the-man-who-found-sherlock-s-monster-an-interview-with-adrian-shine
The man who found Sherlock’s Monster: an interview with Adrian Shine | Unbound
A year ago, in April 2016, a momentous discovery was made in the depths of Loch Ness. Newspapers displayed a sonar image, collected by a state-of-the-art autonomous submersible, that was unmistakably monstrous—and not only because it was rendered in lurid green, blue and brown striations....