@patrickchristie.bsky.social
Writer with work in The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Litro Magazine, Review 31, Necessary Fiction, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and elsewhere. https://www.patrickchristie.co.uk
Monday
09.03.2026 07:44 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0You're right. They have to have been dead for at least 20 years
08.03.2026 20:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Indeed. I thought the same thing
08.03.2026 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Walked passed Martin Amis' old house
08.03.2026 14:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nancy's Sluggo shouting angrily with a speech bubble above him
"But when's International Woims Day?!"
08.03.2026 11:25 — 👍 65 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0Two good bookshops round there too: Brick Lane Books and Libreria.
06.03.2026 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0'from the boy, Jacob is my name'
06.03.2026 13:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She tones it down in her subsequent books
05.03.2026 21:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Would they not have the rights for all the books they published (for re-prints / re-issues for example, if they wish) up until he made the swap to Grove Atlantic?
05.03.2026 13:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0'I’m completely forgotten. My books are pulped. Penguin, my publisher for over twenty years, have lost the computer master files of my books. There’s no digital master files of the finished copies of my books at Penguin, and they published me for twenty years.'
05.03.2026 12:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Well it's 9th and Hennepin
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes"
Why are people so obsessed with bathrooms? Why do I keep seeing 60m2 flats with 3 bathrooms squeezed into them?
28.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A book, entitled 'How Not to Kill Your Plants' next to a dead house plant
Spotted while doing a viewing of a flat
28.02.2026 11:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My main takeaway from this is that tech people - even the loony ones - are incredibly dull
harpers.org/archive/2026...
They have a decent selection of more obscure pasta shapes
26.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'll be honest, my mind went to less innocent places
26.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm interested in knowing what the 1% of people engaging 'something else' Pokemon activities...
26.02.2026 10:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Agree though given penguins seem like a notably gay species, this is logical corporate washing for them
24.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My main complaint with it is nothing bad happens to Anders Danielsen Lie.
I mean he gets divorced but that's not on the level of heroin addiction or pancreatic cancer, is it?
Sounds interesting! Will check it out
13.02.2026 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Does it just cover the big 3 or some of the more obscure beats?
13.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My purchase fell through in December, this has been my life for the last 10 months with no end in sight!
12.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Jonathan Cape obviously knew Saturday was a dud so didn't want to waste any money coming up with a new cover design
10.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jonathan Cape obviously knew Saturday was a dud so didn't want to waste any money coming up with a new cover design
10.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0My point remains that I have never heard of magpies swooping cyclists until now
10.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had to Google the zip tie thing. Seems to be a wholly Australia phenomenon
10.02.2026 07:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Did Random house just re-use the design of Portnoy's Complaint for Muhammad Ali's Biography?
09.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why is it called the 'Oslo Trilogy' and not the 'Let's Fuck up Anders Danielsen Lie Trilogy' ?
08.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book post
07.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0