Jonathan Walker

@newishpuritan

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

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Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· 26d

Antoher five-star review for The Angels of L19 on Goodreads:

A remarkable book. A dark exploration of faith and mental illness that is informed, sensitive, and genuinely horrifying. A stunning work of fiction.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Jun 18

Name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Promo image for Almost Grown from 1988–9, with an attractive man and woman.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Apr 12

Some Goodreads and Amazon reviews for my novel The Angels of L19, published by Weatherglass Books (sorry but I don't have the energy to do alt text for all of this): weatherglassbooks.com/shop/the-ang...

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 24

Released 40 years ago today(ish), and one of my favourite albums. If I did a 33 1/3 proposal, it would be for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=avar...

Cover of Born Sandy Devotional by The Triffids

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Oct 13

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.

Reservoir with tiny model sailboats in the distance.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Jul 29

Concil notice on a tree saying’Please do not feed the trees.’

Little Shop of Horrors carniverous plant.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Jul 6

I have two titles there at the table by the entrance: Greenock/Gourock and Greenock Central to Glasgow Central. £7.50/£6 or £12 for both. Details here: 650749c57a329.site123.me/publications...

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Jul 6

I went to #glasgowzinefair yesterday and got these, including titles from @jshphotog.bsky.social and @tomhumberstone.com. It’s on today as well, and I’m also selling a couple of titles on the table by the entrance (details in next post.

Covers of zines Pigeon Auctions, 1991, Pigeon Movements, Billy & Stu would like to talk to you about horry, and Bat Habitat.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Jun 19

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Jun 18

This is who runs this account.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· May 15

Masked 'federal agent' in dark sunglasses.

Mitchell and Webb 'Are we the baddies?' Nazis.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· May 10

In a secondhand copy of The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson, one of the great novels about alcoholism, and the basis for the film of the same name by Billy Wilder, I find these thematically appropriate notes, scribbled on an instruction manual for a fitness tracker smartwatch:

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Apr 25

Thanks to @adamroberts.bsky.social for forwarding this mention of The Angels of L19 in the TLS (cc @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social):

Letter from the TLS about demons in literature from Janet Montefiore, which concludes: 'Most recently, the apparition in Jonathan. Walker's novel The Angels of L19 (2021) of Azazel, a demon in the likeness of a malevolent naked child haunting a dull suburban semi-detached house, is no less frightening for quite possibly being a hallucination.'

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Apr 20

Lots of jokes about zombie Jesus. My novel The Angels of L19 may possibly feature an actual zombie Jesus. That sounds disrespectful, but in context it’s a rewriting of the Harrowing of Hell, where Christ becomes death to defeat death. Reviews at link: 650749c57a329.site123.me/publications...

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Apr 3

The concept of an 'opt-out clause' is like saying that I must post a notice on my door saying that I do not consent to burglars stealing my property, or else I am actively inviting them to do so. It's my property! Of course I don't consent to other people stealing it! #metabookthieves

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Apr 3

@martinmccluskey.bsky.social you are my local MP. I am one of the thousands, maybe millions, of authors ripped off by Meta's brazen indifference to my rights. I am also incredibly disheartened by a Labour government's seeming indifference to this and similar acts of piracy.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 27

A few more sample images:

Glass roof of a shopping mall under storm clouds.

A garage and porch in the foreground: a garden with a Wendy house tipped on its side and backs of older houses in the background.

The top of some kind of office building, seen over the parapet of a wall bordering a railway track.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 27

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.

Cover of my photobook Gourock, Greenock, Glasgow, shows a man in an orange hi-vis vest standing in the doorway of a pub in front of a high-rise car park.

Image from a zine showing part of a house visible through a thick hedge.

View from a train window on a bridge on the approach to Glasgow showing railway infrastructure in foreground and flats in the background.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 13

Much better-known Nick Cave-penned Aussie Western:

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 13

Unknown outside Australia and barely known within it, but an absolutely fantastic study of s checked-out policeman who very reluctantly has to become part of the world again, with fatal consequences:

Cover of Noise (2007), depicting a Melbourne suburb

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 13

I lived in Australia from 2003-12, so I have loads of recommendations:

Promo image for Little Fish (2005) with Cate Blanchett.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 12

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 8

Cover of The Recovering by Leslie Jamison

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 8

Accidentally posted too soon. Some others:

Cover of The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis.

Cover of Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

Cover of Atget's Seven Albums by Molly Nesbit

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 8

A few of my favourite books by women writers:

Cover of The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

Cover of Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 8

It's the first anniversary of the publication of Push Process, my novel about art, friendship and Venice, which includes over fifty photographs. I'm very grateful to Ortac Press for doing such a great job on the production. Some reviews in the next post ... www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

Handsome Italian sailor emerging from a crowd in front of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 6

Since it's World Book Day, here's my four, plus a few zines and offprints of academic articles.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 5

A couple of other images from my train-window zine:

Large warehouses in both the foreground and background, with railway power lines strung across the front of the picture space.

Aircon exhaust ducts on the roof of a building in the foreground, and a motorway flyover in the background.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Mar 5

Just completed another little photo zine, this one on the train journey between Greenock and Glasgow. Train windows were the original screen technology. Long before the invention of cinema, they offered an endlessly scrolling spectacle to a seated passenger. Here's a couple of sample images:

Upper section of some kind of brick office building, peeping over the top of a railway parapet.

Railway works shed and power lines and track on a bridge with Glasgow buildings in the distance in the background.

Jonathan Walker@newishpuritan· Feb 23

Lots of people too. You just can’t see them, because once the exposure goes over one second, objects in motion begin to erase themselves. Not erase; repress. Because they’re not removed. They’re shifted below the camera’s threshold of attention, into the optical unconscious.