I've printed some dummy copies of four photo zines I've put together recently, based on work done over the past few years. Here'...

Barring the odd announcement, this blog will be pretty quiet until early 2024, when, in the run-up to the publication of Push Process , I...

I'm delighted to confirm that my novel with photographs, Push Process , will be published in spring 2024. It's coming out with a new...

There is a short review of The Angels of L19 by Hal Jensen in the TLS (from the 4 March issue). An extract: Jonathan Walker’s rich evocati...

If you would like a signed copy of The Angels of L19 with a personal inscription, you can get one by ordering from my local bookshop in Gla...

I am very happy that my novel of the 'Christian Weird' seems to be being embraced by readers of fantasy and horror. A new review ha...

Lateral flow permitting, I am doing a reading from The Angels of L19 for the University of Kent tomorrow in Canterbury at the Gulbenkian th...

A great review at Ten Million Hardbacks – the same site that hosted my photoessay 'I Was a Teenage Christian' .  The review author ...

Forgot to post that I was at Fantasycon, the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society, in Birmingham over this last weekend. Since t...

  Release date: 12 October  Was I listening to this in the 1980s? No. This is likely my final post on 1984 music. I have a distinct memory o...

Some other albums from 1984 I don't have the energy to write about in-depth, but that were/are on my radar and/or in my wheelhouse:  ...

Release date: 9 April Was I listening to this in the 1980s? Yes, from about 1987. Below, quotations from group members and some backgr...

There's a lot of pressure on review space and competition for people's attention, so it's rare to get a lengthy discussion like ...

Release date: 1 October  Was I listening to this in the 1980s? I bought the seven-inch single of ‘Song to the Siren’, and I distinctly remem...

  Release dates: 20 February and 12 November  Was I listening to this in the 1980s? Not in 1984. I acquired a copy of Hatful of Hollow in a...

Release date: unknown (but 1984)  Was I listening to this in the 1980s? Yes.  Rainy Day were a studio concoction put together for this album...

Lovely review at Locus from Ian Mond, who calls The Angels of L19 a 'tremendous novel', and says: I, of course, loved Walker’s sud...

I wrote a photo essay called 'I Was a Teenage Christian: Church Youth Culture in Liverpool' for 10 Million Hardbacks , which went up...

Release date: 30 April  Was I listening to this in the 1980s? No, not until I moved to Glasgow in the early 90s.  Note: apart from the Melod...