Mark Walker

Bassist, mandolinist, author and full-time Classics teacher (roughly in that order), Mark Walker occasionally publishes things in to order to earn the funds required to clothe his 35 children in squalid rags and feed them boiled cabbages (if they're lucky).

In 2025 he began working on a new Sci-Fi Detective series set on Phobos Space Station, PHOBOS PD. The first two investigations were published in August that year, with several more in the pipeline.

His first serious foray into fiction was way back in 2004, with the historical epic AMIDA: A NOVEL, a based-on-a-true-story set on the borders of the Roman and Persian Empires.

In a quite different vein was THE BLUES DUDES ABIDE: THREE MEN IN A BAND, the tale of his halcyon days playing bass in a little trio called Blues Dudes.

He has also written and/or translated various things about and in and out of Latin, including J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" (HOBBITUS ILLE, HarperCollins, 2012), and Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century poem "Vita Merlini" (LIFE OF MERLIN, Amberley Publishing, 2011), for which Herculean labours he has so far received copious abuse, scant praise, and even less financial remuneration from a hostile or indifferent world.

During his previous career in publishing and journalism, Mark was the editor of the "Gramophone Film Music" and "Musicals Good CD Guides", and continues to write about music and movies if and when anyone will pay him to do so.

His two most beloved things in the world (ahem, aside from wife and son of course) are his Rickenbacker 4003 bass and his Breedlove mandolin, both of which he plays at every possible opportunity.