Mike Parker (born December 1966, in Birmingham) is a British travel writer, living near Machynlleth in mid Wales.
He was the co-author of the Rough Guide to Wales, and has also written books on four British cities, and on the gay scenes of Scotland, Ireland and Northern England.
He made four series of Great Welsh Roads for HTV Wales, which saw Parker and his dog tour the country in a camper van.
Author and Broadcaster Horatio Clare said of him, "A kind of mini-biography of the British psyche emerges from Parker's work, its learning lightly worn and its tales well told, full of interest and incident."
[1] In June 2013, Parker was chosen by Plaid Cymru to be its candidate for the UK parliamentary constituency of Ceredigion, one of the party's target seats.