Luke Sherlock
@lukejsherlock
Writer, heritage lover and bookshop owner @Sherlock_Pages 📚🍃
Went to a Norman church in Elkstone, Gloucestershire today. In fact, I walked. Got tangled in hedgerows. Lost on rights of way rarely trodden. Hot. Sticky. Had a bizarre interaction with a private chauffeur (Cotswolds country isn’t it…). Had a pint of cider. Excellent:
Malmesbury Abbey. Resting place of Athelstan - Arguably the first King of England (though where his exact remains are is lost to history). Stunning 12th century carving. Stirring stuff:
The stories we tell are important. Are they all we have when all is said and done?
A real honour to be acting as Judging Chair for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2025:
A genius. So simple yet so recognisable:
John Singer Sargent - "A Moroccan Street Scene" (1880)
Are you extremely bored? Do you want to hear the ramblings of a small book shop owner? BUT is it better than what’s on Netflix? Debatable…if you’ve not watch “The Last Dance” get on it. Otherwise 👇 youtu.be/ODnv-wDf_CI?si…
📚 The Pilgrim’s Book Club 🥾 …is born. You’re invited to join a Book Club all about ancient landscapes, nature, history and heritage. Fiction and non-fiction picks each month from @Sherlock_Pages see the video below for an explainer and visit - sherlockandpages.com/pages/the-pilg…
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A cozy family of owls in a stone clock tower in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Mythical beast on the rood loft at Sheringham Churvh, Norfolk
Getting fuelled for a great day of bookselling over @Sherlock_Pages as it’s Frome Independent Market day. Hope to see some of you or visit us at sherlockandpages.com to support from afar:
My top 10 books. Subject to change 🌝 no Young Stalin, no Hollinghurst, no Ferrante. What about Scurati? Alas
Our owners Top 10 book choices. Who also happens to be me. Sherlockandpages.com 🧵
This was nice. Thank you
@lukejsherlock What a beautiful book your Forgotten Churches is . It's been produced with real care a delight to read . And of course the little church at Inglesham is there 👍
Toulouse-Lautrec, Portrait of Van Gogh with a glass of absinthe. Vincent and Lautrec were good friends when they lived in Paris.
Scouting for painting scenes. Or walking the dog. Or both. Somerset. England. Land of Discontent and dis content:
Beautiful photos of my book “Forgotten Churches” that were sent to me by a reader. So nice to see this whispering quietly into people’s passions. Available for sherlockandpages.com or all good bookshops:
Find down the shop this morning. Find us in Frome, Somerset or visit sherlockandpages.com to snap up a read:
A couple of recommendations for you on this fine eve: sherlockandpages.com
Bad news for anyone planning to travel on the A7283 heading from Great Smoulting in the direction of Middle Earth West:
