Author's Copies of Push Process

Author's copies of Push Process have arrived from the printer in the Czech Republic. It looks great! Contact hello@ortacpress.com if you are an interested reviewer. It's also the Republic of Consciousness book of the month for February. Otherwise the release date is 6 March!

Details and pre-orders here.

Recommendations:

A genre-defying work that blends quality fiction with art theory and criticism to pose the question, what are we really trying to capture when we decide to take a photograph? 

Stu Hennigan, author of Ghost Signs 

In Push Process, Jonathan Walker takes a stylistic risk, producing a novel as arresting as it is innovative, resulting in an alchemic book infused with shades of Ian McEwan's The Innocent and Teju Cole's Blind Spot. 

Ali Millar, author of Ava, Anna, Ada

Details for Publication of Push Process

I'm very happy to be able to reveal details for the forthcoming publication of my novel Push Process, which is due out from Ortac Press in early March 2024.

More speed, more light, more time. 

But this is the fastest possible film, pushed as hard as it can be pushed; the lens wide open to catch every drop of brightness; the slow exposure shaking the image apart. 

Right up at the edge. Go farther, closer. 

Venice, 2000. 

Richard is a postgraduate student living in the city to research its past. He’s supposed to be working in the archive, but he meets Merlo and Lars, two art students who are more interested in Venice’s present. He decides to pick up a camera and join them. 

The world comes alive for Richard through photographs: for the first time, he feels connected to a place – and other people. He’s determined to continue, whatever the cost. 

Push Process is a novel about art, friendship and being European, illustrated with over fifty black-and-white photographs of Venice.

Pre-order from the publisher here. And below is an introductory video I did about the photographs: