Kit Ward @KitWardWriter

Writer | Londoner | Anglo-Celt All photos my own (other than re-tweets, of course). kitward.uk The rolling English road Joined January 2026

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Kit Ward @KitWardWriter

17 hours ago

@BucketsOf_Rain @NadineDorries I don’t think she understands the meaning of the term ‘Freudian slip’.

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3 days ago

@BucketsOf_Rain I never, ever thought I’d say this but as I get older, I’m beginning to feel that maybe people like Franco, Salazar, and Pinochet had a point.

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Kit Ward @KitWardWriter

5 days ago

My April newsletter: A dispatch concerning nameless pubs, misremembered authors, and discarded mannequins. the-vagabond.beehiiv.com/p/issue-14-may…

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6 days ago

@DrDavidVernon You hooked me. I just ordered it.

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6 days ago

I didn't know that Mishima spoke English. That he spoke it like this is wonderful.

Andrius 🇱🇹 @Arannatar

2 weeks ago

The most surprising thing about Mishima was hearing him speak with a transatlantic accent. I really did not expect that

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Kit Ward @KitWardWriter

6 days ago

@CanonRobinWard @DrDavidVernon Yes, to my ear he sounds more European aristo than transatlantic.

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a week ago

@murielzagha True love.

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2 weeks ago

@Rogowskawero Have you been to Peckham yet?

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2 weeks ago

@Mazza6069 I remember it well. The old Foyles was a great place to find obscure out-of-print books because their stock control was non-existent. Books would sit on the warren of shelves for years.

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What're you giving me with the flying fish @RomanPBone1

2 weeks ago

Cool cats, Vivien Leigh and #botd Laurence Olivier, 1940.

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2 weeks ago

@oldspeak_books @VaubanBooks Keep up the good work, Jo.

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I've just finished the @VaubanBooks edition of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (from @oldspeak_books). I'd expected a dated, sensationalist potboiler. It’s much, much better than that: rumbustious, shrewd, and mordantly funny. H/T also to Ethan Rundell’s lucid translation.

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2 weeks ago

@VaubanBooks @oldspeak_books That's good to hear. A book for our time.

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2 weeks ago

@VaubanBooks @oldspeak_books Thanks for making it available. I certainly hope it's selling well for you. I did notice a small number of typos, in particular, "Straights of Gibraltar" for "Strait of Gibraltar". But overall, a quality piece of work.

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Kit Ward @KitWardWriter

2 weeks ago

@simar_nathan Me too!

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2 weeks ago

The Shop, West Mersea ‘Do not ask what is sold in the Shop…’

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3 weeks ago

One of the most important parts of writing books...is being filmed while you sit in a café doing nothing.

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3 weeks ago

One of the most important parts of writing books … is sitting in cafes doing nothing

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3 weeks ago

@BucketsOf_Rain Yes, and surprisingly quiet whenever I’ve been there — which makes it even more wonderful.

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3 weeks ago

The Inimitable’s writing desk, Charles Dickens Museum, London

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Kit Ward @KitWardWriter

4 weeks ago

Epistolary cretinism.

Simon Schama @simon_schama

4 weeks ago

So encouraged to read this moving, bravely reasoned statement of impassioned solidarity from Muslim friends and co-citizens . Exactly what is needed right now. Thank you so much. Be assured that we Jews would feel and speak the same way in the face of virulent Islamophobia.