Luke McKernan
@lukemckernan.bsky.social
Ooh, bookmarks stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
October 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ooh, bookmarks stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
An epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor of mine, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
An epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor of mine, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
My latest blog post is an epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
My latest blog post is an epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Buccaneers of America and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The Buccaneers of America and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
The Director and a mug of tea #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Director and a mug of tea #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
I decided to measure our Eurostar journey using Strava. It has awarded me with 14 personal records. Quite pleased with my world record for the Marathon of 8mins 48 seconds.
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I decided to measure our Eurostar journey using Strava. It has awarded me with 14 personal records. Quite pleased with my world record for the Marathon of 8mins 48 seconds.
The Golden Rhinoceros and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
October 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Golden Rhinoceros and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
Thanking librarians is good thing to do lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
October 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thanking librarians is good thing to do lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
Thanking librarians, past and present lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Thanking librarians, past and present lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
One of the features I like in my new book Let Me Dream Again is use of DVD screengrabs to get telling images e.g. L'enfant sauvage, Great Expectations (Pip coming out of the mist), Masked and Anonymous, Dickensian stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
One of the features I like in my new book Let Me Dream Again is use of DVD screengrabs to get telling images e.g. L'enfant sauvage, Great Expectations (Pip coming out of the mist), Masked and Anonymous, Dickensian stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
One of a number of obituaries for Guido Convents, promoter of African film, exceptional early film historian, and a good friend www.signis.world/headline/12-...
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
One of a number of obituaries for Guido Convents, promoter of African film, exceptional early film historian, and a good friend www.signis.world/headline/12-...
The Gold Tip Pfitzer and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
September 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Gold Tip Pfitzer and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
On a Kent country walk through Ryarsh and Birling
September 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
On a Kent country walk through Ryarsh and Birling
Why not buy your copy of the 836,103rd best-selling book on Amazon? www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Why not buy your copy of the 836,103rd best-selling book on Amazon? www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...
Happily Amazon now has the correct back cover for my book Let Me Dream Again, with generous recommendations from Nick Hornby, @pamhutch.bsky.social and @illuminations.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happily Amazon now has the correct back cover for my book Let Me Dream Again, with generous recommendations from Nick Hornby, @pamhutch.bsky.social and @illuminations.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...
The Death of Tragedy and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
September 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Death of Tragedy and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
My book Let Me Dream Again: Essays on the Moving Image is cheapest from the publisher's site. £24 hardback, £20 paperback stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
September 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My book Let Me Dream Again: Essays on the Moving Image is cheapest from the publisher's site. £24 hardback, £20 paperback stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
"I'm looking for that Ingmar Bergman film where a vicar plays ludo with the Devil". Some entertaining footage enquiries from my time as a film archive cataloguer lukemckernan.com/2025/09/11/i...
September 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"I'm looking for that Ingmar Bergman film where a vicar plays ludo with the Devil". Some entertaining footage enquiries from my time as a film archive cataloguer lukemckernan.com/2025/09/11/i...
Remembering the battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513 lukemckernan.com/2025/09/09/o...
September 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Remembering the battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513 lukemckernan.com/2025/09/09/o...
Remembering Flodden, 9 September 1513 lukemckernan.com/2025/09/09/o...
September 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Remembering Flodden, 9 September 1513 lukemckernan.com/2025/09/09/o...
"Wonderfully eclectic, entirely delightful, learnedly informal, gloriously quirky, deeply knowledgeable, and totally original essays, held up to the light with absolute precision, with playfulness and above all with passion" – John Wyver
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
"Wonderfully eclectic, entirely delightful, learnedly informal, gloriously quirky, deeply knowledgeable, and totally original essays, held up to the light with absolute precision, with playfulness and above all with passion" – John Wyver
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
The Place of Tides and a latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
September 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Place of Tides and a latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
"What a wonderful collection - surprising, smart and rich ... These essays are the product of a unique and admirable mind and I loved them." - Nick Hornby
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
September 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"What a wonderful collection - surprising, smart and rich ... These essays are the product of a unique and admirable mind and I loved them." - Nick Hornby
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
Let Me Dream Again and a latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Let Me Dream Again and a latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking