Bio

Explore a world of captivating books authored by Mike White, available in various formats and genres.

Mike lives in Liverpool, where he spends his time writing books with a humorous edge on just about anything that takes his fancy. In a former life, he created best-selling and critically acclaimed text-based adventure games for the ZX Spectrum—an achievement that simultaneously fills him with pride and serves as a handy reminder of just how old he actually is.

Mike is the author of the Victoriana steampunk series, which is full of clockwork contraptions, top hats, and the occasional airship-related mishap. His latest series takes readers to The Rook, a city draped in the trappings of a thinly disguised Elizabethan-Victorian London, where intrigue lurks in the alleyways, and the gas lamps never quite seem to flicker the way they should. Beyond these, he has penned many other works spanning multiple genres because sticking to just one would be very, very dull.

When not writing, Mike enjoys cycling and cooking, though not usually at the same time—he finds flambéing while pedalling tends to alarm pedestrians. He is also an enthusiastic reader of, well, just about anything: novels, newspapers, bus timetables, the back of the cereal box, and, most importantly, menus. Especially menus.

When the time is right, Mike plans to retire to a quaint windmill somewhere remote and keep bees. The bees don’t know this yet, though he suspects that they may have opinions on the matter.