Author: timwalker1666

Tim is a blogger and author based near Windsor in the UK. His latest book is Guardians at the Wall, published in June 2021. This follows the completion of five-book series, A Light in the Dark Ages, with Arthur Rex Brittonum in 2020. This is preceded by Arthur Dux Bellorum (2019); Uther's Destiny (2018); Ambrosius: Last of the Romans (2017) and Abandoned (second edition 2018). Other titles include: Devil Gate Dawn, published in 2016, a tense post-Brexit political/crime thriller; Postcards from London (short stories)and Thames Valley Tales (short stories); The Adventures of Charly Holmes; Charly & The Superheroes and Charly in Space (children's book series).

📚’Travel through time in different writing styles’. @LizanneLloyd Reviews London Tales by @timwalker1666 for Rosie’s #BookReview Team #RBRT

Today’s team review is from Liz. Liz blogs here https://lizannelloyd.wordpress.com/ Liz has been reading London Tales by Tim Walker. Having lived just outside London for a large part of my life and briefly worked there I have always been fascinated by its rich history forged by the many people who lived in the city. From […]

📚’Travel through time in different writing styles’. @LizanneLloyd Reviews London Tales by @timwalker1666 for Rosie’s #BookReview Team #RBRT

Enticing Audiobook

Thames Valley Tales is an enticing collection of short stories with settings along the course of the river Thames.
Historical, thriller, comedy, ghost stories rub shoulders, expertly produced and narrated by actor-author Richard James.


Available from Amazon Audible:
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Thames-Valley-Tales-Audiobook/B0BY9Y59HG

Thames Valley Tales audiobook

…and Apple iTunes:
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/thames-valley-tales-short-stories-book-1-unabridged/id1678590841?ls=1&app=itunes

London’s birth and death imagined

London Tales is a new collection of short stories from Tim Walker that echo London’s past, reflect the present and imagine its future.

Starting with a dramatic account of Queen Boudica’s rebel army attack on Londinium (Roman London) in 60 CE, it ends with a dystopian tale set during the final evacuation as rising sea levels claim the city.

In between, there are stories set during the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the last ice fair in 1814, Jack the Rippers murders of 1888, the Blitz of 1941, then the World Cup summer of 1961, the 70s, 80s and the London terror attacks of 2007. It’s a work of fiction, drawing on key moments in London’s fascinating 2,000 year history.

Buy now from Amazon in paperback or Kindle:

http://mybook.to/LondonTales

London Tales

Tim Walker’s new book, London Tales, is now up for pre-order on Kindle for just 99p/99c!
http://mybook.to/LondonTales

Pre-order link: http://mybook.to/LondonTales

London’s rich history stretches back 2,000 years to Roman times. Stories in this book are set during Boudica’s rebellion, the Peasant’s Revolt, the Great Fire of London, the reign of Mad King George, the Jack the Ripper murders, the Blitz, 1966 World Cup, the 2005 terror attacks, prison breaks, a pub crawl and a dystopian vision of the city’s end to rising sea levels…

Audiobook for the Blind

I was thrilled when someone mentioned the Windsor Talking Newspaper charity in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Their volunteers provide a valuable information service for blind people in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council area. They distribute a USB memory stick each week to their subscribers with local and national news stories read and recorded by volunteers – what a great idea.

I met with the organisers and they thought it was a good idea to serialise my short stories in Thames Valley Tales, voiced by actor Richard James, onto each weekly issue for an eight week run.

This will start after Easter, and I’m looking forward to the feedback from their 1,000-odd subscribers across the RBWM Council area.

It is hoped that stories located locally that reflect contemporary issues and evoke some of the rich history and legends associated with the river Thames will surely resonate with the audience.

The Merry Women of Windsor is a comic update of Shakespeare’s classic play; Runnymede Rebellion is a human drama that examines the meaning and relevance of the personal freedoms enshrined in Magna Carta; and Maidenhead Thicket sees the ghost of highwayman Dick Turpin surprise a Council surveyor.

Other stories in the collection of nine are set in Oxford, Henley-on-Thames, Newbridge, Goring-on-Thames and the Uffington White Horse.

Audiobook fans can find Thames Valley Tales on Amazon Audible and Apple iTunes store. It’s also available from Amazon in paperback, Kindle and Kindle Unlimited via this link:

http://mybook.to/ThamesValleyTales

New Audiobook Launched

After eight years and fifteen book titles, I’ve just published my first audiobook. I chose a set of nine short stories under the title Thames Valley Tales, and hired actor Richard James to narrate and produce it. He’s done a fine job, adding in appropriate music and sound effects, and his variation in accents between different characters has really brought the stories to life. Here’s the blurb:

Thames Valley Tales is a light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of nine stories by Tim Walker. These tales are based on the author’s experience of living in Thames Valley towns, and combine contemporary themes with the rich history and legends associated with an area stretching from the heart of rural England to London.

The collection includes The Goldfish Bowl, in which an unlikely friendship is struck between a pop star and an arms dealer in Goring-on-Thames; Maidenhead Thicket, where the ghost of legendary highwayman, Dick Turpin surprises a Council surveyor; The White Horse intrigue surrounding the dating of the famous chalk carving on the Berkshire Downs; Murder at Henley Regatta, a beguiling whodunit, and The Colnbrook Caper, a pacey crime thriller.

Thames Valley Tales starts with The Grey Lady, a ghost story from the English Civil War, and features The Merry Women of Windsor in a whimsical updating of Shakespeare’s classic play. The Author’s Note explains the context and reasoning behind each story.

Thames Valley Tales oscillates from light-hearted to dark historical and at times humorous stories ideally suited to bedtime or holiday reading that will amuse, delight and, hopefully, inform the reader about the rich history of the Thames Valley as it winds 215 miles from the Gloucestershire countryside, past many towns and villages to London and out to the North Sea.

The book also has a factual chapter and map of the Thames Valley showing the towns through which the 184-mile Thames Path passes. It’s a walk-through history and the natural beauty of England that will inspire and captivate.

Thames Valley Tales, second edition, is available in audiobook, Kindle e-book and paperback from Amazon worldwide, and can also be found on Kindle Unlimited.

Buy Link
Amazon Kindle, paperback, Audible and Kindle Unlimited

Also in Apple iTunes store.

Audiobook Narrator
Thames Valley Tales audiobook is narrated and produced by actor, author and playwright Richard James who has been appearing on stage and screen for over thirty years. Most recently, he played a guest role in Miss Scarlet & The Duke for PBS and Alibi Films and was nominated for ‘Best Supporting Performance’ at the Off West End Awards for his roles in A Sherlock Carol at the Marylebone Theatre.
Richard is on Twitter as @RichardNJames

Author Bio:
Tim Walker is an independent author living near Windsor in the UK. He grew up in Liverpool where he began his working life as a trainee reporter on a local newspaper. After attaining a degree in Communication Studies he moved to London where he worked in the newspaper publishing industry for ten years before relocating to Zambia where, following a period of voluntary work with VSO, he set up his own marketing and publishing business. He returned to the UK in 2009.
His creative writing journey began in earnest in 2014, as a therapeutic activity whilst recovering from cancer treatment. He began writing an historical fiction series, A Light in the Dark Ages, inspired by a visit to the site of a former Roman town. The series connects the end of Roman Britain to elements of the Arthurian legend and is inspired by historical source material, presenting an imagined history of Britain in the fifth and early sixth centuries.
Book one is Abandoned (second edition 2018); followed by Ambrosius: Last of the Romans (2017) and Uther’s Destiny (2018). The last two books in the series, Arthur Dux Bellorum (2019) and Arthur Rex Brittonum (2020) cover the life of an imaged historical King Arthur, and are both Coffee Pot Book Club recommended reads.
In 2021 he published a dual timeline historical novel, Guardians at the Wall. This was inspired by visits to Vindolanda and Corbridge at Hadrian’s Wall, and concerns the efforts of archaeologists to uncover evidence and build a narrative of the life of a Roman centurion in second century Britannia… and find his missing payroll chest.
Tim has also written three books of short stories, Thames Valley Tales (second edition 2023), Postcards from London (2017) and Perverse (2020); a dystopian thriller, Devil Gate Dawn (2016); and three children’s books, co-authored with his daughter, Cathy – The Adventures of Charly Holmes (2017), Charly & the Superheroes (2018) and Charly in Space (2020).
He plans to re-work some stories in Postcards from London into London Tales, with the addition of new stories, for publication in 2024 in audiobook, Kindle and paperback.
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