Mark Mulholland is a writer. His first novel A Mad And Wonderful Thing was published in 2014 by Scribe Publications of Melbourne and London.Hear Mark speak on his writing hereMark was born and raised in Ireland and when he was young about twelve years of age or sohe used his school lunch breaks to visit a second-hand book store in his home town. He got a part-time job and with his small earnings bought books by their cover or title or by some indefinable inclination and along with Puzo, Deighton, and MacLean he was reading everything from Camus to Hemingway to Steinbeck to Kavanagh to McGahern long before he knew who these writers were. The whole world was to be found in that book store, he says, and everything a boy needed to learn could be learned there.Mark left formal schooling at sixteen and stuck with the second-hand book stores. He has been educated by buying books in this way ever since.Mark lives with his wife Veronica and their four children and his library of all those second-hand books in a farmhouse in France.
