Welcome to the official website of the writer Alan Wall.  Here you will find news and biographical information about Alan, as well as an an overview of his work as a writer.  We will also be offering stories and writing from Alan's back catalogue and giving readers the opportunity to buy some of his new work.

Alan is a critically acclaimed writer of serious literary fiction, but he has an almost obsessive interest in breaking down genre boundaries.  Alan's latest work includes a cycle of darkly political and philosophically provocative sf stories and novelettes featuring Brother Tom, a 'roentgen reader' gifted with intra-sensory perception.  A collection of Brother Tom stories, Burning Bibles, is published by Bristol-based Edgar Allan Press in May 2012.  In addition, one of the stories from there's a free sample of a story from the collection, 'Russian Gold'.     

Alan is also putting together a rigorous but playful exploration of the origin of English words called Obstupefaction Etc.  Sections from this book are being published in The Reader and Paraxis, and others are free to download here on the website.

'One Alchemist, One Fool, One Tempest', an imagined dialogue between the author of The Tempest and the author of The Alchemist, is the latest addition to the downloads page.  Download here on the website and discover what goes on between the Tower and Bess Throckmorton's Bed.

There are two other free downloads on the site: these are the poetry e-books 'Mayakovsky's Bullet, Milton's Pen' and 'Swan and Other Poems'.  Both are free to download here on the website.    


Alan's fiction has been translated into ten languages.