Mark is an actor with an extensive career on stage, screen, and television, with roles ranging from Shakespearean classics to musicals, biopics, and BBC dramas.

He played Robert Louis Stevenson in local BAFTA-winning playwright John Foster's acclaimed play Weevil in the Biscuit.

Andrew is a historian, published author and Bournemouth resident.

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He has researched Robert Louis Stevenson's life in Bournemouth and sometimes takes visitors on guided tours up Alum Chine to Skerryvore telling the tale and inspirations behind the the writing of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.

Mark is a founder member of the Long John Silver Trust where he co-wrote The Bristol Treasure Island Trail and Pirates & Privateers out of Bristol. Pursuing the works of his favourite author he became a member of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club and the future European Cultural Route “In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson” officially accredited in 2015.

Ali is an author who creates fiction around the lives of real historical characters. For her latest novel, The Absent Heart  (Linen Press, 2025), she has chosen Frances Sitwell, the first love of writer Robert Louis Stevenson, and the recipient of over one hundred letters from him in the years before his marriage to Fanny Osbourne. Described as stylish, vivid and lyrical, The Absent Heart throws new light on the woman at its centre and the web of relationships around her and the great writer.