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Joseph Walker
@josephwalker
Independent writer working mainly in literary fiction, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
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About the writer
Joseph Walker writes literary fiction and historical fiction. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
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Stories by Joseph Walker
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The Last Ledger
Set in Exeter in the late 19th century, the novel follows a widowed printer’s clerk who discovers that a long-closed account book from a defunct shipping firm contains evidence of a disappearance everyone in the city has quietly agreed to forget. As he traces the names and crossings recorded in its pages, he is drawn into the uneasy lives of dock workers, tradesmen and respectable families who prefer their past to remain unexamined. The book is as much about what people choose not to say as what they record.
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