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Jack Walker
@jackwalker
Independent writer working mainly in literary fiction, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Jack Walker writes mainly in literary fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A finished page should still feel alive.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Jack Walker
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First draft
The Last Copyist
In 1890s Oxford, a quiet manuscript copyist working in a fading private library discovers that a missing page from a medieval chronicle may alter the reputation of a long-dead family and the living one that still depends on it. As she follows the paper trail through colleges, bookrooms and back corridors, she is forced to decide whether preservation is a form of truth or a more polite kind of erasure.
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