Books by Michael Walker

Second Edition - Here are 23 progressive compositions by Ferdinando Carulli Transcribed for the baritone ukulele or low G ukelele. Most are also playable on the tenor and soprano ukulele and, of course, they may all be played on the guitar.

Second Edition - Here are 24 graded compositions by Ferdinando Carulli Transcribed for the baritone ukulele or low G ukelele. Most are also playable on the tenor and soprano ukulele and, of course, they may all be played on the guitar.

These 23 compositions were composed by Adrian le Roy and published in Paris in 1555. Each was accompanied by a Chanson, facsimiles of the original chansons and tablature are included with each new transcription. These pieces have all been transcribed into modern tablature and notation for the modern guitar. Most are playable on the ukulele and, in spite of the reentrant tuning, can create a fairly faithful recreation of the four-course renaissance guitar.

Among the abundant Alfred Hitchcock literature, Hitchcock's Motifs has found a fresh angle. Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of Hitchcock's oeuvre, including not only all his 52 extant feature films but also representative episodes fr

More than a century after the Easter Rising, football in Ireland -- like the country itself -- remains divided. At the Euro 2016 finals in France, the country sent two teams -- the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Both teams did well -- each managed by a man called O'Neill, each resplendent in emerald green and backed by noisy, good natured supporters -- but still they were as much divided as they were united. Green Shoots examines why, almost a century after one Irish Association became two, this is still the case. It traces the overlapping stories and individuals in both associations, beginning with the tale of the boy on the front cover, Johnny Brown, a Belfast Protestant who played for Eire. Brown is the author's great uncle. This is only one strand of the broader story of Irish football. Green Shoots returns to the gures, often overlooked, who contributed so much to the growth of the game in Ireland and who made such an impact in England and Scotland too. Men such as William McCrum from Armagh, who invented the penalty-kick, and Billy McCracken from Belfast who changed the offside law in 1925 are brought back to life. A chronological thread leads from those men to Peter Doherty in the 1950s, George Best in the 1960s to Liam Brady in the 1980s and on to modern day players. Blending original archival research, travel writing, and interviews with many of the game's defining characters, Green Shoots looks at Irish football domestically and internationally. World Cups and European Championships are recalled and re-examined not just in sporting terms, but as defining moments in the country's modern history. Green Shoots is the engrossing account of the inside stories, dramas and dreams of the game in Ireland. Above all it is the definitive history of a footballing nation and its many paradoxes.

This book takes a close look at films that deal with ghosts. Making a crucial distinction between atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas.