Thanks to Colin Garrow for this interview…
Historical author Tim Walker likes his fiction to be set in Roman Britain, so where did his interest in times long past come from?
Coming from a career that includes journalism, mineral exploration and rugby, how did you end up writing historical novels?
I developed a love for history and literature at school, and my first job after school was trainee reporter for a local newspaper, The Woolton Mercury, in South Liverpool. I jumped at the chance to research and serialise the history of a Grade One listed building in the area, Woolton Hall, and spend many hours in Liverpool libraries doing the research in the days before the internet. I went on to have a career in the back rooms of news publications – marketing, sales, editing, management – and went to Zambia to do voluntary work in educational books development, before ‘living the dream’ and starting my…
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