Daniel J. T. McKay

Daniel J. T. McKay

@danieljtmckay.bsky.social

Cambridge based historian, Antipodean, writer and illustrator. New book ‘Whimwondery: An Alphabetarium of Useful Nonsense Inventions’ out now!

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The only garden gnome I want!

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11 months ago
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Exploring rural Suffolk.

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1 year ago
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A cold winter’s day was an excellent time to encounter Flaming June.

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1 year ago
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Signed copies of Whimwondery now available at Hatchard’s!

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Love minimalism.

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1 year ago
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A bygone glimpse of rural England, near the village of Butley, preserved in a Victorian photo album. The name of the girl is preserved in handwritten scrawl ‘Mary Ellen Urwin’ in conversation with a character named ‘Old Fawcett’!

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Two fabulous churches, and both locked (on a Sunday)! They were at least striking from the outside.

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Loving the mass hang of still life paintings at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Very striking and reach in details.

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Sir Henry Slingsby, delicately painted by an unknown hand (who was deft handed at hands). Spotted in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

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1 year ago
Whimwondery by Daniel J T McKay Buy Whimwondery by Daniel J T McKay from Daunt Books today. New Fiction, Non-Fiction books and Travel Guides available from Daunt Books. Worldwide shipping available.

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1 year ago
A slightly eccentric and excited young author holds aloft a copy of his brightly coloured new book of nonsense in the London bookshop Daunts.

Signed copies of my new book ‘Whimwondery: An Alphabetarium of Useful Nonsense Inventions’ now available in Daunts, Marylebone!

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1 year ago
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Memories of blue skies over Cambridge.

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