Bøker av Mike Steeden

Part espionage thriller, part romance, part fantasy, part adventure, 'Notoriously Naked Flames' is Mike Steeden's first novel. Spanning the lead up to World War II, the war itself, and into the early 1950s, the unnamed heroine of the piece, a bewitching albino of Bohemian bent, masquerades in all manner of risqué guises dishing out her own version of clandestine justice to those evil souls spawned of conflict's disregard for compassion, law, and order. She also finds herself nursing her lover, a giant of an Englishman once in the employ of MI5, back to a semblance of his former self following his torture at the hands of Cold War Soviets that had left him deaf, mute, and blind. Her task is made a little easier with the help an Eastern European girl she befriends in bizarre circumstance. Together, the trio of 'Notoriously Naked Flames' takes on life in all its demonstrative disguises while the racy heroine keeps under wraps her tale of otherworldly evolution, for were it to become known to the public at large, it might just invalidate religion as we know it and bring forth a new Dark Age. Can she keep safe her secret?

WARNING: This book may contain traces of nuts (not of the edible kind) and may also cause drowsiness amongst those unfamiliar with the English language. Bibliophobia sufferers may experience severe panic attacks. Additionally, it is strongly recommended that you do not drive whilst reading.INGREDIENTS: Lunacy, stupidity, silliness, idiocy, absurdity, aberration, eccentricity and fragments of appallingly bad taste. Notwithstanding the above, within this tome you will discover Agatha Christie's long lost short story, 'The Elastic Snapped', the superheroes 'Pac A Mac Man & Galoshes Boy', the 'Swoony Sayings from The Young Buddha', 'Alfred Outwhaite's Pedigree Homing Earwig', 'Naomi Wholemeal the Useless Radicalized Eco Warrior & Poet' and how Noah came to feast upon 'Unicorn Sausages'.Moreover, there are real life tales and aspects of history that you were likely never told of at school, such as 'The Rolling Pin that Saved The British Empire', the construct of a 'Young Leonardo Da Vinci's Lightsabre' and of how the 'Yanks Airbrushed the British Moon Mission from the History Books' and much, much more.By way of examples, were you ever aware of 'Pocahontas' Lost Dr Martens' or the day Billy Joel suffered from 'Lyricist's Block'? If your answer is 'no' then this is the book for you.If perchance you're familiar with the first book of silly skits, 'Fanny, I Think of You Often' then you'll already be aware of some of the mad characters in this sequel. If not, then it matters not a jot for this is a standalone spin-off. So what are you waiting for? Read on...

The tale of a remarkable gal bent upon putting right all the worldly wrongs her puzzling maker overlooked. The proud possessor of a dual personality, when needs must she fights fire with fire, taking on both abominable Nazi's and their shady sympathisers. An assassin by trade, gate-crashing evil's jamborees, her forte; administering primal justice her worthy quest.To the outside world a dynamic operative, yet In the private company of lovers and the like-minded, her alter-ego holds sway, for that half of her lives only to unwittingly reinvent desire's darkest secrets. The one thing her polar opposite identities can agree upon, the impure delights of untamed romance. Set mainly in London and Northern France twixt 1936 and 1945, within this tome you'll find the gal I speak of in all her glory. Known by every man jack as 'Frenchie' she is an undeniably accomplished dreamer who lives for unalloyed love, blue-sky sex, and penny plain fair play.

A book of mind boggling time-travel, feverish sex, syrupy romance, ho hum history, a dark future, The Moon, Constantinople, Paris and Berlin, human consciousness, infinity, a tongue in cheek take on all things carnal, art for art's sake and three thoroughly mad yet oh so delightful gals...

Gentlemen Prefer a Pulse is Mike Steeden's first published collection of poetry and features over a hundred poems that are sometimes humourous, serious, satirical, surreal, thought provoking and brilliant!Mike says his inspiration is drawn from his self proclaimed love of the fairer sex, his passion for 'people watching' (a trait born of his time as a private investigator), social justice and compassion.The net result is that his poems are in essence a cocktail of all these things...oh yes, the important thing! Mike always endeavours to ensure that within his body of work the gals always win out in the end!

An aging juvenile's reminiscence of existence under the indestructible shadow of his mother's bewildering, all-consuming germ phobia and its mostly hilarious, sometimes just plain sad impact on his life. In penning this factual story Mike offers up worthy glimpses not just his mind-boggling catastrophes and infrequent triumphs, but also of bygone day's forgotten way of living, its communal behaviour and of oft times mislaid social history of southern England from the late 1950's toward the near present-day. Enjoy.

A risqué romance betwixt an English gentleman and an untamed provocative mademoiselle. A mystery born of an evil beast, to unravel. The abuse of eternal time and life as we know it, and a little time-traveling along the way. How will it all end?