Tim Kinsey
@tekinsey.uk
Mystery Writer. Dreadful Drummer. Proudly responsible for the Lady Hardcastle series.
https://www.tekinsey.uk
https://www.tekinsey.uk
Flashback to 2013 for no reason. Me and my many chins playing the drums with Macaroni Penguins at the Kingswood Village Hall.
September 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Flashback to 2013 for no reason. Me and my many chins playing the drums with Macaroni Penguins at the Kingswood Village Hall.
By all means feel free to file this under "no one cares except you, Tim" but I broke the truss rod cover on my SE Silver Sky so I printed a new one... but in the shape of the cover on the full-fat American model. It feels deliciously naughty.
September 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
By all means feel free to file this under "no one cares except you, Tim" but I broke the truss rod cover on my SE Silver Sky so I printed a new one... but in the shape of the cover on the full-fat American model. It feels deliciously naughty.
The next Lady Hardcastle book, The Quarry Mystery, is available for pre-order on your local version of Amazon.
eBook, paperback and audiobook - 19 January 2027.
Murder, quarries, dinosaurs – all the usual stuff.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H5RQNLBG
eBook, paperback and audiobook - 19 January 2027.
Murder, quarries, dinosaurs – all the usual stuff.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H5RQNLBG
August 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
The next Lady Hardcastle book, The Quarry Mystery, is available for pre-order on your local version of Amazon.
eBook, paperback and audiobook - 19 January 2027.
Murder, quarries, dinosaurs – all the usual stuff.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H5RQNLBG
eBook, paperback and audiobook - 19 January 2027.
Murder, quarries, dinosaurs – all the usual stuff.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H5RQNLBG
You know that book I've been telling you about? Murder on the Rocks? It's out today. I just thought I'd mention it.
May 26, 2026 at 11:06 AM
You know that book I've been telling you about? Murder on the Rocks? It's out today. I just thought I'd mention it.
Murder on the Rocks - coming next week
May 18, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Murder on the Rocks - coming next week
My copies of 'Murder on the Rocks' arrived today. I shot an unboxing video (it's the law or something) but, as usual, it was utterly ghastly. Here, instead, is a still image of the book on my desk.
Murder on the Rocks - all formats, all territories - 26 May 2026
Murder on the Rocks - all formats, all territories - 26 May 2026
April 1, 2026 at 1:54 PM
My copies of 'Murder on the Rocks' arrived today. I shot an unboxing video (it's the law or something) but, as usual, it was utterly ghastly. Here, instead, is a still image of the book on my desk.
Murder on the Rocks - all formats, all territories - 26 May 2026
Murder on the Rocks - all formats, all territories - 26 May 2026
I’ve just noticed that we have a cover for Murder on the Rocks.
All formats, all territories, 26 May 2026
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
etc
All formats, all territories, 26 May 2026
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
etc
January 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
I’ve just noticed that we have a cover for Murder on the Rocks.
All formats, all territories, 26 May 2026
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
etc
All formats, all territories, 26 May 2026
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZBMMHVZ
etc
I forgot to mention the Christmas book. You've see it before, but we have Christmas every year now, so... you know...
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I forgot to mention the Christmas book. You've see it before, but we have Christmas every year now, so... you know...
Getting in early because I'm already winding down for my Christmas break.
Thanks for another great year. No matter what you believe, have a fantastic time over the festive season.
Merry Christmas.
Thanks for another great year. No matter what you believe, have a fantastic time over the festive season.
Merry Christmas.
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Getting in early because I'm already winding down for my Christmas break.
Thanks for another great year. No matter what you believe, have a fantastic time over the festive season.
Merry Christmas.
Thanks for another great year. No matter what you believe, have a fantastic time over the festive season.
Merry Christmas.
There's an anniversary today
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
There's an anniversary today
Met a nice fella not far from Hyde Park Corner
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Met a nice fella not far from Hyde Park Corner
I know I complain about this every year when Strictly is on, but I'm not allowed to complain about it in the house. And I shouldn't go on about it, but I always imagine Rex Harrison singing, "Why Can't the English Teach Their Children How to Clap?"
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I know I complain about this every year when Strictly is on, but I'm not allowed to complain about it in the house. And I shouldn't go on about it, but I always imagine Rex Harrison singing, "Why Can't the English Teach Their Children How to Clap?"
I *know* it's a long way off, but I'll be at HNS 2026 in Maynooth, Ireland, next year with @pamlecky.bsky.social and Fiona Veitch Smith. The conference runs 21-23 Aug (our panel date TBA).
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I *know* it's a long way off, but I'll be at HNS 2026 in Maynooth, Ireland, next year with @pamlecky.bsky.social and Fiona Veitch Smith. The conference runs 21-23 Aug (our panel date TBA).
Every once in a while I get an email telling me that there’s a UPS parcel on its way from Michigan. They’re usually translated editions of Hardcastles and they’re always a joy. Pretty sure I already have the French one somewhere, but the ‘mass market paperback’ of the German one is new to me.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Every once in a while I get an email telling me that there’s a UPS parcel on its way from Michigan. They’re usually translated editions of Hardcastles and they’re always a joy. Pretty sure I already have the French one somewhere, but the ‘mass market paperback’ of the German one is new to me.
I’m one of the “people of a certain age...” - he visited my primary school more than once. I clearly recall him demonstrating a tam-tam and explaining that he used it to provide the sound of the gong in the J Arthur Rank film ident.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘Two more broomsticks please!’ Was Robin Blades the greatest percussionist ever?
He played china mugs, bells, rattles and car horns for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Benjamin Britten – and once got Laurence Olivier to bang a broomstick. We go behind the scenes of a Radio 3 cel...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I’m one of the “people of a certain age...” - he visited my primary school more than once. I clearly recall him demonstrating a tam-tam and explaining that he used it to provide the sound of the gong in the J Arthur Rank film ident.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
I hope @mwcraven.bsky.social and @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social have been given these. (I had to buy mine, obviously.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I hope @mwcraven.bsky.social and @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social have been given these. (I had to buy mine, obviously.)
If you dropped all the Lady Hardcastle books on a studio floor it wouldn’t look like this because there are only twelve of them and this image uses 2,000 virtual books. But they were ‘dropped’ in a fun physics simulation in Blender because I should be working.
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If you dropped all the Lady Hardcastle books on a studio floor it wouldn’t look like this because there are only twelve of them and this image uses 2,000 virtual books. But they were ‘dropped’ in a fun physics simulation in Blender because I should be working.
I might be a drummer, but I have a fondness for guitars and I’m working hard at learning some proper technique. I picked up the beautiful instrument at the front from Andertons yesterday.
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I might be a drummer, but I have a fondness for guitars and I’m working hard at learning some proper technique. I picked up the beautiful instrument at the front from Andertons yesterday.
It’s at about this time every year when I suddenly remember that, yes, actually, I do have a book with witches in it. In a sort of a way.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D4G28KY/
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D4G28KY/
October 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It’s at about this time every year when I suddenly remember that, yes, actually, I do have a book with witches in it. In a sort of a way.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D4G28KY/
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D4G28KY/
I have a couple of quadcopters ("drones"). I like to keep the batteries in decent condition and when I charge them up I sometimes take them out for a quick test run to make sure everything is still working. Today I tried to sneak up on a couple of pigeons but they were too wily for me.
October 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I have a couple of quadcopters ("drones"). I like to keep the batteries in decent condition and when I charge them up I sometimes take them out for a quick test run to make sure everything is still working. Today I tried to sneak up on a couple of pigeons but they were too wily for me.
This was Eddie's shot at fame in 2016:
October 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This was Eddie's shot at fame in 2016:
Regular viewers might remember Eddie, my faithful Muppet Whatnot. His pleather jacket was falling to pieces, so while we were away, our daughter (who was housesitting) crocheted him a new cardigan.
October 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Regular viewers might remember Eddie, my faithful Muppet Whatnot. His pleather jacket was falling to pieces, so while we were away, our daughter (who was housesitting) crocheted him a new cardigan.
I neglected to mention that we got from Banff to Vancouver on the Rocky Mountaineer…
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I neglected to mention that we got from Banff to Vancouver on the Rocky Mountaineer…
My wife says she doesn’t want to use the stairs - THEY’RE ON FIRE
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My wife says she doesn’t want to use the stairs - THEY’RE ON FIRE