@luketurner

@luketurner has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in October 2020. The social media accounts linked to from @luketurner are: Instagram, Email, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, luketurner has populated their site with Epping Forest and the human/nature problem on the Uncanny Landscapes podcast, About me on Wikipedia, Author page at A.M. Heath Literary Agency, Buy my books, Out Of The Woods and Men At War: Loving Lusting Fighting Remembering 1939-1945, The Quietus spring sale is here! Help us fight AI-mageddon, Talking about Children Of The Stones on the Low Culture Podcast, For The Observer, the books and archives uncovering historic LGBT+ lives & the lessons we can learn today, An interview with Black Box Recorder on how Billie EIlish ruined their retirement, ‘I once ate a fly thinking it was crispy carbonised meat’: On Ratting, For The Observer, on Farage's strangely enduring teenage Hitler obsession, On the enduring appeal of workwear, for The Guardian, Having a lovely chat about my love of Suede and their impact on my life with the Little On The Breeze pod, A profile interview with Cosey Fanni Tutti in The Observer, Discussing masculinity, the Nature Cure myth and England's oomska with Jude Rogers on the Quietus podcast, On model railways an mental health in The Observer, Budgie's memoir The Absence, which I helped on, In The Observer on Glastonbury's place in British culture in 2025, A profile of gay erotic filmmaker Peter De Rome in the FT, The Quietus Spring Subscriber Sale!, Talking about Epping Forest on BBC Radio 4's Open Country, Ken Worpole's Brightening From The East reviewed for Caught By The River, Talking about Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M.R. James on The Quietus Low Culture pod, Low Culture Podcast: Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary, by M.R. James | The Quietus, Had a chat with the wonderful HTRK about key moments from their 21-and-a-bit years, Talking about Sonic Youth's Evol & Dirty on tQ's Low Culture podcast, My book Men At War on masculinity, sexuality & WWII – "a loving, important work" – the New Statesman, I am very happy to have helped bring EM Barraud's wartime memoir Set My Hand Upon the Plough back to life:, Me on Jarvis & co as sex education in I'm With Pulp, Are You? - Hat & Beard Press, With a whole load of great writers on booze (not pissed like) in My Life In Beer - A Collection of Essays, For The Guardian, an interview with and tribute to Marie and Will of Old Town Clothing, Derek Jarman's Blue and reflections on 2024 in the Low Culture podcast, On the Nevermind the Dam Busters pod discussing depictions of RAF masculinity and my writing in Men At War, Discussing Patrick Hamilton's Slaves of Solitude on the Library of Lazy Thinking Podcast, The Quietus' Albums of the Year 2024 chart is here!, The pet I’ll never forget: Caesar the goldfish, who meant as much to me as any dog, Live review of The Cure for The Guardian, "A book to get lost in" Out Of The Woods reviewed in the Guardian, On London as affordable, grotty paradise in the early 2000s, and the electroclash soundtrack of those times, An excerpt from my essay about Pulp as sex education, taken from new book I'm With Pulp, Are You?, Lakeland Echoes: Lakeland Echoes: Wind, Rock, Fell, Rain & Sea Power's Krankenhaus, On geology, mud, metal and the body for Caught the River, A Listen Here essay about the anxiety-inducing quiet of a spring lacking insects, I wrote about my experience of IVF and masculine delusions of eternal fertility for The Observer, A joy to discuss A Matter of Life and Death with Rob Hutton on the War Movie Theatre podcast, Buy yer Quietus tote bags here!, I've written an essay on Pulp as a 1990s sex education for stunning new book, I'm With Pulp, Are You?, I interviewed Diamanda Galás for a Quietus Strange World Of..., Why festivals are more enriching if you ignore half the music and do something else instead – the Listen Here column on tQ, Let’s commemorate D-day – but not how Nigel Farage wants us to, I interviewed the Pet Shop Boys about seediness and spaghetti hoops!, The new Quietus is alive! My column on how we're really just all about love, I've written the foreword for the Hush Kit Book of Warplanes Vol III – more info here!, I spoke to Chris Watson about recording the natural world on the former battlefields of Flanders, In new science podcast Why? I speak to Dr Frank Marchis of SETI about the quest for extraterrestrial life, Why I’m campaigning for a #onequidtea in our national institutions, Men At War is one of the best Military History books of 2023, according to Waterstones, My Life In Beer: on Methodism, sin and how the threat of small town violence led me to a love of cask ale, For The Guardian: How I came to embrace my inner Alan Partridge, “Beautiful . . . so rewarding . . . engaging and surprising... a loving, important work.” Erica Wagner on MAW in the New Statesman, Songs of Innocence & Arrogance: I wrote about the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolf's Lycanthropy, Discussing Men At War with James Wharton of the British Forces Broadcasting Service, wrote about the Dambusters raid for the Telegraph, Buy Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945, On Forces News at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hanger discussing sex & planes, An interview with Patrick Wolf for the Guardian, I wrote about the magnificent I Want My Hat Back as a masterpiece of minimalist literature and philosophy for the New Statesman., On the psychedelic power of an old cassette of Vaughan Williams' The Wasps and the landscape, for BBC Radio 3, When we were doomed – why Dad's Army is more than nostalgia telly, On why our Remembrance of war needs to be diverse, Buy the critically-acclaimed, Wainwright Prize shortlisted Out Of The Wood from an independent bookshop, Your Shrouded Form: an essay on Siegfied Sassoon, autumn, sexuality in war & young soldiers in the Gifts of Gravity & Light anthology, A chapter on Epping Forest & boozing in this new book on London's pubs, Why It's A Sin is such a powerful and necessary dramatisation of the AIDS crisis, Oh look, I'm writing about Suede again! For the Guardian, on how they changed my life, Of Cake & Men - I interviewed Sleaford Mods about masculinity, sexuality & the English grotesque, A piece on the strange appeal of psychological breakdown / homebuilding programme Grand Designs, Nature is healing? An essay on Coronavirus and our relationship with the non-human, I went on BBC Scotland's Big Scottish Book Club to discuss Out Of The Woods, sexuality & mental health in nature, On the BBC's Countryfile talking about conservation work with Hamza Yassin, My essay on the depth of modern masculinity for The Observer, For the BBC, a feature on the rise of LGBT+ football supporter groups #COYI, A chat about building model aeroplanes and complex histories of WWII with John Robb, Become a Quietus subscriber.