Mark Igoe was an occasional contributor to travel, political and historical publications before writing his first book, a guide to Zimbabwe, with his wife, Hazel in the early 1980s. This was the first guide to the newly independent country, and was followed by several other regional guides, a short history and the historical fiction Rivers of Good Portent. ("...a delicious tale, deliciously told", Jayne Southern, Goodreads), In the 1990 he worked on a number of books for Cadogan Guides in London, which included co-authoring of the best selling Buying a Property in France. Since then he has added more books on France, Africa and Norfolk, England (“no better way to enjoy a virtual tour of God's Own County than in his affable and intelligent compan” - Simon Knott, Norfolk Church site) where they now live. He has 8 e-books available through Goodreads, most recently a short history of Zimbabwe at the request of and in conjunction with that country’s premier archaeologist guide, and an historical introduction to the Zambezi River.