Lucas Oakeley

Mar 21, 2025 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Lucas Oakeley

Great burgers, it turns out, are simple creatures. In recent years, we’ve seen a shift away from the traditional thick hunk of beef with towering layers of onion rings, relish, and cheese, and in its place, the nimble smashburger has risen. These trimmer patties are made by crushing balls of ground beef into thin discs that form caramelised edges when cooked. Then the stacking begins. Two, three, four, or an ungodly five layers of crushed meat make for a protein lover’s dream.

Mar 17, 2025 | bedfordsquarepublishers.co.uk | Profile Page |Lucas Oakeley

Joel Foster is a hapless twenty-something. His girlfriend, Beth Lewis, would likely have been a hapless twenty-something, too, had she not been obliterated by a very large cement truck. Some time after Beth’s tragic death, Joel is still trying to juggle grief with the world of modern dating. And while he still feels like a widower, he has to find a new love before three years is up. The catch? Just as Joel thinks he’s finally falling for someone, he starts getting haunted by Beth.

Jan 29, 2025 | goal.com | Lucas Oakeley

Men making friends with other men is hard. It usually involves a weird bullfight stand-off where both of you try to feel each other out—shaking hands a little too firmly, unsure whether obscure references to late-nineties WWE storylines will go down a treat or crash the momentum of the friendship like a cement-filled zeppelin. It’s even harder to make friends with a man when you’re sleeping with their daughter. That tends to put up a bit of a barrier. It creates a splash of friction.

Dec 4, 2024 | service95.com | Lucas Oakeley

By Lucas OakeleyDec 05, 2024 Lucas Oakeley is a writer and journalist who has written for a range of publications including VOGUE, GQ, The Independent, National Geographic, The Guardian, The Economist, Esquire and Time Out. He loves long walks on the beach but hates getting sand in his shoes. His debut novel, Nearly Departed, will be published in summer 2025.

Oct 31, 2024 | the-fence.com | Lucas Oakeley |Ella Fox-Martens |Lauren Bensted |Claudia Cockerell

A short story in a pub. Deep breath now. Don’t move a muscle. Four glasses float by your head and you don’t quite know how the man caressing them like bowling pins in his wide hands hasn’t managed to spill a drop. You’d have been impressed at the dexterity of his movement – which was deft, almost Biles-like – if he hadn’t looked down the front of your top as he pliéd by. There was a hush before the music. Before the band really started to blow.