Böcker av Stephen J Gamblin

From an encounter with a medieval priest, to a near-death experience on a motorcycle trip in the snow; from supper with a powerful yakuza gangster, to a bit part in a film with a famous Hollywood movie star; from an excruciatingly embarrassing consultation with a female doctor, to a night with an anonymous soft porn actress; from an all-night 350-mile ride across Japan astride a 180mph two-wheel Ferrari, to the loss of a Romanian friend. These and twenty-five other assorted tales go to make up Pieces of Japan - a collection of adventures and misadventures, incidents and accidents that befell freelance writer Steve Gamblin during his fifteen-year sojourn in Japan. All the stories are true - only a few of the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Thoughts Ideas & Other Mental Acts is a collection of essays on contemporary issues. Some of the pieces first appeared on my AMereMan blogging site in 2017. Topics range from the frivolous in Shouting, Monologuing, and Tea Bagging, to the highly provocative in The Gripes of Wrath. And from the deeply controversial in 9/11 22 Years On, to the completely mystifying in Lost to History, and Missing Persons. These and eight other pieces go to make up Thoughts Ideas & Other Mental Acts. If you find some of your own thoughts and ideas challenged, then the book is a succes

Excerpts From a Life is a collection of autobiographical short stories - a series of snapshots in time - gleaned from a period of forty or so years. From a childhood adventure in Two-Point-Five Seconds, to adult misadventures in Drowning; from cosmic ordering in Gifts From the Gods, to a cosmic encounter in Armed & Dangerous; from unconsummated love in Theia Mania, to predatory lust in Spider Woman; from social phobia in The Other Angie, to social divide in The Garden of Eden. These and thirty-five other stories go to make up Excerpts From a Life. Every story is faithful to my memory. Only a few of the names have been changed to protect the guilty and to ward off law suits.