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Tim Walker

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Welcome to my Goodreads page.
I'm an independent author living near Windsor in the UK. To date, I have written and self-published fourteen books and two audiobooks. Historical fiction is my main genre for both reading and writing.

In July 2025 I published a novella, The Trials of Arthur Whitty. This follows the fortunes of ordinary Arthur who overcomes many setbacks through a sense of humour and vivid imagination.

In 2024 I re-hired British actor and author, Richard James, to voice London Tales audiobook, available from Amazon Audible and Apple i-Tunes.

In November 2023 I published London Tales, a collection of 11 short stories that echo London's past, reflect the present and imagine its future. Mainly historical fiction shorts, with two conte Welcome to my Goodreads page.
I'm an independent author living near Windsor in the UK. To date, I have written and self-published fourteen books and two audiobooks. Historical fiction is my main genre for both reading and writing.

In July 2025 I published a novella, The Trials of Arthur Whitty. This follows the fortunes of ordinary Arthur who overcomes many setbacks through a sense of humour and vivid imagination.

In 2024 I re-hired British actor and author, Richard James, to voice London Tales audiobook, available from Amazon Audible and Apple i-Tunes.

In November 2023 I published London Tales, a collection of 11 short stories that echo London's past, reflect the present and imagine its future. Mainly historical fiction shorts, with two contemporary tales and one dystopian story predicting the city's final days as rising sea levels claim it. This is a companion volume to Thames Valley Tales.

In March 2023 my first audiobook, Thames Valley Tales, was published on Amazon Audible and Apple i-Tunes. The audiobook was narrated and produced by actor and author, Richard James. This second, extensively revised edition, is also available in Kindle, paperback and Kindle Unlimited.

My most recent novel is Guardians at the Wall, published in June 2021, an historical dual timeline action and adventure novel set at Hadrian's Wall. It's about archaeologists who uncover artefacts that connect them to the life of a Roman centurion in second century Britannia, and an ensuing search for a missing payroll chest.

In June 2020, Arthur Rex Brittonum, was published - the fifth and final instalment in A Light in the Dark Ages series. This is part two of my re-imagining of King Arthur, and follows on from 2019's Arthur Dux Bellorum.

In March 2015, whilst visiting the site of a former Roman town, I pondered the question, 'what would life have been like for the native Britons after the end of the Roman occupation?' This kindled an interest that led to extensive research and my first book, Abandoned (2015 novella/2018 novel 2nd edition) that became the first book in what was to become a series.

Abandoned was followed by Ambrosius: Last of the Romans (2017); Uther's Destiny (2018); Arthur Dux Bellorum (2019) and Arthur Rex Brittonum (2020).

My first novel, Devil Gate Dawn, released in April 2016, is a thriller set in 2026 that predicted political chaos in a divided post-Brexit UK, and a dystopian Trump America (way back in 2015 I figured Trump had a chance of winning, and if he did, he would behave like a Third World dictator and re-write the constitution to make himself President for Life - OK we were spared that... although there's always next time - that's the magic of fiction, folks!).

Postcards from London, published in September 2017, was unpublished and delisted in August 2023 to make way for London Tales. Some stories were retained in updated versions, supplemented by new stories set in London. Similarly, Thames Valley Tales, first published in 2015, was relaunched as an extensively revised second edition in March 2023. Perverse, a book of short fiction and verse, came out in April 2020.

In 2017 I published my first children's book, The Adventures of Charly Holmes, co-authored with my daughter, Cathy. This was followed in 2018 by book two, Charly & the Superheroes, and in 2020 by Charly in Space. ...more

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	Abandoned! (Light in the Dark Ages, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Arthur Dux Bellorum (A Light in the Dark Ages #4) 4.67 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Uther's Destiny (A Light in the Dark Ages Book 3) 4.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Arthur Rex Brittonum (A Light in the Dark Ages #5) 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Adventures of Charly Holmes (Charly Holmes Series Book 1) by Tim Walker (Goodreads Author), Cathy Walker 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dec 01, 2020 08:51AM

You may like to read GUILTY WIVES which is a unique story that takes a group of fun-loving wives from the ultimate in luxury to a nightmare existence behind bars after they are accused of murder. James Patterson comes up with the worst kind of betrayal.
You may also like to check out my new crime thriller STITCH UP! - KILLER OR VICTIM? which has received glowing endorsements and reviews. The Sun newspaper's Stuart Pink says it has "a riveting plot and electrifying double twist" while author Francis Wait says it is a MUST for everyone who likes Peter James and Jeffrey Archer thrillers. Best wishes, Tony Flood, author of celebrity book My Life With The Stars - Sizzling Secrets Spilled!, fantasy adventure Secret Potion and spicy crime thriller Triple Tease.

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Many thanks for this. It's a great offer. The weather's set to turn cold, so this weekend's an ideal time to burrow into an engaging page turner!

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Leo wrote: "Hiya Tim! Pleasure to meet a fellow writer :) Hope to chat with you about books in the near future!
Leo :)"

Hi Leo, nice to e-meet you too! Just finalised my first novel, Devil Gate Dawn... let me know if you'd like to read a pdf review copy...

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Rebecca wrote: "Greetings Tim,

Thank you for the friend request. Looking forward to discovering your bookish tastes on GR,

Rebecca"

Hi Rebecca, nice to e-meet you too! must get on this site more often, but I am making more time to read. Can I push a pdf review copy of my first novel on you?

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Hi to my friends! Just a quick update to say 'thanks' to my beta readers for their feedback on the first three chapters of DEVIL GATE DAWN. I've made some changes and have now finalised it. I've also submitted it to Amazon for consideration for their Amazon Scout promotion programme for first novels, whereby readers vote by nominating books on the programme they like, and after 30 days Amazon choose the most popular and publish them! I'll let you know if I'm selected...

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Greetings Tim,

Thank you for the friend request. Looking forward to discovering your bookish tastes on GR,

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Hiya Tim! Pleasure to meet a fellow writer :) Hope to chat with you about books in the near future!
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