John A Walker: 35 books

It was such a great mystery how every day the Zephyrman got up early and followed the wind. There was no one like him. And here he was today coming along the street where the young lad lived with his mum and dad and sister. After speaking to the Zephyrman the young lad tells him that he too one day...

Short story about how to avoid being hypnotised by the power of electronic images. One evening a young man walks to the river near where he stays, and there sitting by the river that night he understands for the first time the power of electronic images that are sent through the air to people all...

Calvin Glass is expelled from his local church. In a strange twist of fate, a few years later, after setting up Chiara Zona, he has to return there. Little does he know that in his local area operatives are working for agencies who control the state. To many people in the modern world, they are known as the Dark Ones and the Audio Police. This time they try to expel him for good.

Art-lovers is set in 1982 and is the story of a young man called Henry Bowers. Henry wants to change society and culture with his art. He feels that the new vibrant culture is being slowly manipulated by industry, and in a few years time it will be all but gone in shape and form. The young artist...

Charlie is a right Charlie. Even though in the post computer age, everything seems to be accepted - it is not. The Bureau does not like freaks and deviants. However, Charlie has a friend who works there. He believes Dexter will protect him from going to the Wall of Fun. This is a scheme, after the birth-rate has kept falling, brought in by the government, to get people to mate.

Due to an accident, George has lost his memory. After he recovers he goes back out into the world. It is a very odd world indeed he comes across. He cannot understand it. People seem distant from each other, when he comes across them in town. And when he hears them speaking, it is as if they hate...

“A man like me only comes along once every thousand years; so listen to what I say. My words will set you free; I am the one who will lead you out of the cultural wilderness, and into the new era.” Simon the Zealot, Moro the foreigner, and Yogurty the cyberpunk, have one thing in common. They...

A selection of fantastic poems about life. The poems are all on different topics. One poem is about meeting Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon; another is about going along to a live broadcast of a football match in a pub.

The Man in the Blue Suit owns an art gallery in the city centre of Glasgow. For some unknown reason he gets involved in a spy network. He has been asked to go to the south of France and there meet a contact named Olga. He knows that he is being watched, and that his mission may be a dangerous one....

Lucy Lovelock and her friends, Jenny Penny, and Gina Cappuccino, like most young girls in the 21st century do not like being controlled by the TV and Media Moguls. And here today Lucy is off to work for the Academy of Entertainment: the main TV station in the city centre of town. How will she cope?...

May 1944: Mary is on the way back from work from a factory in the Gorbals, Glasgow. This trip is to prove different from any other. While heading back into the city centre, she innocently finds a white envelope on the tram. Unknown to Mary this envelope leads her into a world of espionage, spies and...

This is a collection of four books: Music-lovers, The Pop Festival, Silent Faces at the Races, The Film Festival. The Pop Festival is set at the beginning of the 21st century. Pop culture by this time has long faded into the past. All the movements and cults of the twenty-first century go into the...

Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...

Understanding Central America explains how domestic, global, political and economic forces have shaped rebellion and regime change in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras throughout their histories, during the often-turbulent 1970s and since. The text provides students a comprehensive...