Jonathan Walker
@newishpuritan.bsky.social
Ex-historian of Venice, writer, editor. Author of The Angels of L19, Push Process (a novel with photographs), and other books. (Banner image by Dan Hallett.)
jonathanwalkerwriter.uk
jonwalkereditorial.co.uk
jonathanwalkersblog.blogspot.com
jonathanwalkerwriter.uk
jonwalkereditorial.co.uk
jonathanwalkersblog.blogspot.com
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Besides my several books, I've also created a number of zines and a photobook. Details in this part of my website: 650749c57a329.site123.me/publications...
Although these are not commercially available, I have some samples. DM me if you'd like to buy copies of any of them.
Although these are not commercially available, I have some samples. DM me if you'd like to buy copies of any of them.
Okay.
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Okay.
This is a great discussion:
KIDNAPPED, by Robert Louis Stevenson
For @lrb.co.uk’s NOVEL APPROACHES, Clare Bucknell, Andrew O’Hagan & Tom Crewe explore Stevenson’s startlingly modern handling of perspective & pacing, his approach to the art of fiction, & the value of being ‘betwixt & between’
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www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
For @lrb.co.uk’s NOVEL APPROACHES, Clare Bucknell, Andrew O’Hagan & Tom Crewe explore Stevenson’s startlingly modern handling of perspective & pacing, his approach to the art of fiction, & the value of being ‘betwixt & between’
💙📚
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Andrew O’Hagan, Tom Crewe and Clare Bucknell · Novel Approaches: ‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
www.lrb.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is a great discussion:
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Is there no enterprising UK-based law firm willing to pursue this on behalf of UK authors?
I have two novels and about ten academic articles on the Anthropic list, but I’m not going to get a penny because nothing is registered with the US copyright office (academic articles seem to be entirely excluded from the settlement). What a bummer.
September 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Is there no enterprising UK-based law firm willing to pursue this on behalf of UK authors?
I fucking love him for this:
“I basically tailored the part for Rhea," Gilligan says. "I wanted her to be a star, I figured it was long past time for her to be number one on the call sheet, and I wanted to be the person to get her there.”
Pluribus’ Vince Gilligan on making shows that ‘attract really smart viewers’
It starts streaming in November.
www.theverge.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I fucking love him for this:
I always have a moment of thinking they're talking about Lana Del Rey.
Del Rey has acquired The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance, an "uplifting and heart-warming" fantasy adventure by Scottish debut author and academic Chiara Bullen. The book will publish globally in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Del Rey snaps up Chiara Bullen's 'uplifting and heart-warming' fantasy adventure
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November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I always have a moment of thinking they're talking about Lana Del Rey.
The exponential growth of scam emails from fake book marketers and people posing as famous writers makes something depressingly clear. The real money is to be made, not by trying to sell books to readers, but by exploiting would-be authors.
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The exponential growth of scam emails from fake book marketers and people posing as famous writers makes something depressingly clear. The real money is to be made, not by trying to sell books to readers, but by exploiting would-be authors.
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Today dear ones, last call, all aboard, won’t you join us please?
Glasgow loves please join me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida Books on the 6th of November to talk about the marvel that is The Expansion Project.
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night
*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night
*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Today dear ones, last call, all aboard, won’t you join us please?
Rectify the anomaly! Rectify the anomaly!
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Rectify the anomaly! Rectify the anomaly!
Not only one of the great voices in popular music, but also one of the great songwriters:
NEW post: Sandy Denny ... "Her voice and vision still resonate: a reminder that the most profound melancholy can also be luminous, alive and simply beautiful."
@mikepress.bsky.social picks 10 from the ‘solo’ records of #SandyDenny (photo Keith 'Keef' MacMillan)
www.toppermost.co.uk/denny-sandy/
@mikepress.bsky.social picks 10 from the ‘solo’ records of #SandyDenny (photo Keith 'Keef' MacMillan)
www.toppermost.co.uk/denny-sandy/
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not only one of the great voices in popular music, but also one of the great songwriters:
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ICYMI yesterday we had to ask #booksky for help. Our bank had an admin error and drained our account.
📚 In 24h you ordered £750 of books – here’s 2/3 of them! Overwhelmed, relieved, hugely grateful. Thank you. 🧡
🍌 Banana, as is custom, for scale. Fairtrade, ofc. 💚🐸
📚 In 24h you ordered £750 of books – here’s 2/3 of them! Overwhelmed, relieved, hugely grateful. Thank you. 🧡
🍌 Banana, as is custom, for scale. Fairtrade, ofc. 💚🐸
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
ICYMI yesterday we had to ask #booksky for help. Our bank had an admin error and drained our account.
📚 In 24h you ordered £750 of books – here’s 2/3 of them! Overwhelmed, relieved, hugely grateful. Thank you. 🧡
🍌 Banana, as is custom, for scale. Fairtrade, ofc. 💚🐸
📚 In 24h you ordered £750 of books – here’s 2/3 of them! Overwhelmed, relieved, hugely grateful. Thank you. 🧡
🍌 Banana, as is custom, for scale. Fairtrade, ofc. 💚🐸
I've ordered Renard's edition of Mrs Dalloway, a book I've been meaning to read for a while:
#booksky, can you help? In so many ways this has been a glorious week of collaboration and support, but it’s ended on a downer…
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I've ordered Renard's edition of Mrs Dalloway, a book I've been meaning to read for a while:
My favourite 80s album:
‘The children are walking back from the beach, sun on the sidewalk is burning their feet. Washing the salt off under the shower and just wasting away, wasting away the hours and hours and hours’
Such an atmospheric record 💛
Such an atmospheric record 💛
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My favourite 80s album:
All soup is neither liquid nor solid, and is therefore an unclean abomination.
My wife of 30 years has just informed me that she doesn't like tomato soup! Who doesn't like tomato soup? Should I see a divorce lawyer?
October 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
All soup is neither liquid nor solid, and is therefore an unclean abomination.
Just reading about Miss Shilling’s orifice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sh...
Miss Shilling's orifice - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just reading about Miss Shilling’s orifice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sh...
Walked by the local reservoir yesterday, and it was full of little motorised sailing boats operated by a group of old fellas, likely a club. Made me proud to be a bloke.
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Walked by the local reservoir yesterday, and it was full of little motorised sailing boats operated by a group of old fellas, likely a club. Made me proud to be a bloke.
SPOILERS for Task
I am patting myself on the back for getting this right:
I am patting myself on the back for getting this right:
I am so poisoned by tv conventions I assumed the phone call by Ruffalo’s boss was a fakeout, and kept waiting for Galasso (the obvious choice) to be revealed as the mole.
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
SPOILERS for Task
I am patting myself on the back for getting this right:
I am patting myself on the back for getting this right:
This is stunning!
Excellently threatening energy from Deborah Findlay’s entry to the Puffin Post’s Concrete Poetry Competition.
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon
October 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is stunning!
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*Submission reminder*
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
Pop up submission window — wild hunt books
Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
*Submission reminder*
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
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The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
www.thebookseller.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
THIS ISSUE: EVERYBODY DIES!
(Though that was actually the next one I think.)
(Though that was actually the next one I think.)
Good morning! It’s Thursday October 9th 2025! Already? Crikey!
(Released this very month in 1981, a mere 44 years ago, the epochal Uncanny X-Men #141, with its much-homaged classic cover by John Byrne & Terry Austin.)
You be careful out there among them English with their Sentinels, Joanne Book.
(Released this very month in 1981, a mere 44 years ago, the epochal Uncanny X-Men #141, with its much-homaged classic cover by John Byrne & Terry Austin.)
You be careful out there among them English with their Sentinels, Joanne Book.
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
THIS ISSUE: EVERYBODY DIES!
(Though that was actually the next one I think.)
(Though that was actually the next one I think.)
Free idea for a crime novel:
Mount Everest is so littered with bodies, that if you were to murder someone by chucking them off the mountain you'd get away with it. In fact, dozens of people probably have.
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Free idea for a crime novel:
New scam email today. A message allegedly from Elizabeth Strout, wanting to 'connect' about her new book (one of the giveaways is that it doesn't actually refer to her latest, but the one before). I think the purpose is to get me to click on the link included in the message.
October 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New scam email today. A message allegedly from Elizabeth Strout, wanting to 'connect' about her new book (one of the giveaways is that it doesn't actually refer to her latest, but the one before). I think the purpose is to get me to click on the link included in the message.
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As a rule I keep politics off here but sometimes an incident needs highlighting, an experience needs to be seen, a person needs their voice shared.
I'm sixty years old and this country is in a worse place than I've ever seen.
I'm sixty years old and this country is in a worse place than I've ever seen.
I had the worst lunch. Honestly.
Maybe @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social could cover the rise in the far right, in racist attacks and, you know, the effect on millions of British people instead of platforming them every night
I'd settle for @theguardian.com doing even basic coverage of racism in the UK
Maybe @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social could cover the rise in the far right, in racist attacks and, you know, the effect on millions of British people instead of platforming them every night
I'd settle for @theguardian.com doing even basic coverage of racism in the UK
Today I sat next to racists planning openly planning to murder people in a cafe
How have we come to a place where racists can openly talk about murdering people in public with no consequence?
stewarthotston.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
As a rule I keep politics off here but sometimes an incident needs highlighting, an experience needs to be seen, a person needs their voice shared.
I'm sixty years old and this country is in a worse place than I've ever seen.
I'm sixty years old and this country is in a worse place than I've ever seen.
Is there no enterprising UK-based law firm willing to pursue this on behalf of UK authors?
I have two novels and about ten academic articles on the Anthropic list, but I’m not going to get a penny because nothing is registered with the US copyright office (academic articles seem to be entirely excluded from the settlement). What a bummer.
September 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Is there no enterprising UK-based law firm willing to pursue this on behalf of UK authors?
I have two novels and about ten academic articles on the Anthropic list, but I’m not going to get a penny because nothing is registered with the US copyright office (academic articles seem to be entirely excluded from the settlement). What a bummer.
September 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I have two novels and about ten academic articles on the Anthropic list, but I’m not going to get a penny because nothing is registered with the US copyright office (academic articles seem to be entirely excluded from the settlement). What a bummer.