Patrick Kincaid
About me
I’m a novelist in search of an agent. I hold a PhD from the Shakespeare Institute, and have spent the last ten years teaching English in an inner-city comprehensive.
I’m currently working on a series of novels set between the end of Elizabeth’s reign and the English Civil War. The story follows a historical figure who straddled the worlds of theatre and politics, and seems to have known every poet, courtier and religious fanatic of the time.
I’ve been heartened by the recent trend for well-written novels with an Early Modern setting, and have enjoyed Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell novels particularly. But I was also taken with Andrew Miller’s PURE, a beautifully rendered evocation of pre-Revolution Paris.
My story ‘The Doll and His Maker’ was included in MX Publishing’s SHERLOCK’S HOME: THE EMPTY HOUSE.I was short-listed for the Bridport Poetry Prize, 2012 , and long-listed for the Fish Poetry Prize, 2013.
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@edwhitfield Mostly resembled a nodding dog reading this, though I liked A Town Called Mercy and thought Silver Nightmare was without merit.
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