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Roger Kean

Goodreads author profile

born

July 29, 1948 in Solihull, Birmingham, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://recklessbooks.co.uk

genre

Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Young Adult

influences

Jean-Paul Sartre, Aldous Huxley, Mary Renault, Stephen King

member since

June 2011

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Film-maker, journalist, publisher, Roger Kean (also writing under the names Roger Michael Kean and Roger M. Kean) has written about subjects as varied as the utilization of electronic publishing techniques for pre-press, video games, and gay life in London. His published books include histories of the Roman Emperors, Byzantium, Ancient Egypt, and pirates. Fiction includes five boys' adventure stories available from Smashwords, and two for Kindle on Amazon, Storm Over Khartoum and Avenging Khartoum.

He has just published a novel, Felixitations for Kindle and through Smashwords.

He now divides his time between website design and writing gay-themed novels with illustrations by his lifelong partner, the artist Oliver Frey (a.k.a. Zack). Their fir...more

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Ken Russell—a great

One of my seminal influences, the British movie director Ken Russell died yesterday, largely forgotten by the industry, but not by his repertory company of actors.

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Books by Roger Kean

Average rating: 3.80 · 5 ratings · 4 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Felixitations 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Living in the Ancient World Set by Roger Kean (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Oliver Frey (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Exploring Ancient Egypt 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	3-D Puzzles by Roger Kean (Goodreads Author), Oliver Frey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	By Sheer Pluck 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Complete Chronicle of the Emperors of Rome; Vol. 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Complete Chronicle of the Emperors of Rome; Vol. 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Theory Test For Car Drivers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	3 D Erotic 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	In Times of Peril 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Roger Kean gave to: Apprenticed to Pleasure (Pledged to Magic, #1) by Brandon Fox (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
What an entirely delightful story, one that puts real magic into the equation of sex and comes up with love. Good action-adventure wraps around lubricity of a high order and leaves you wanting to know more about Ander and Thane’s next task in Conjuri...more
12 hours, 18 min ago · see review
Roger Kean added: Felixitations by Roger Kean (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
May 29, 2012 08:30am
Roger Kean marked as to-read: Listening To Dust by Brandon Shire (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
May 28, 2012 12:57am
Roger Kean gave to: Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, #2) by Hilary Mantel read in May, 2012	My rating:
Completely brilliant! Hilary Mantel has a way with words that defies simple description. Every character from king to sad queen, from noble to commoner, and particularly the family, vibrates with life as seen through the eyes of Cromwell. Highly reco...more
May 28, 2012 12:56am · see review
Roger Kean made a comment on Campbell Mcaulay's review of A Deniable Death. by Gerald Seymour "Thanks, Campbell. "
May 19, 2012 06:30am · see review
Roger Kean gave to: A Deniable Death. by Gerald Seymour by Gerald Seymour read in May, 2012	My rating:
Garald Seymour in fine form…
May 19, 2012 05:59am · see review
Roger Kean gave to: Boys of Vice City by Zack (Goodreads Author) read in October, 2011	My rating:
May 07, 2012 01:20am
Roger Kean gave to: A Dance With Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R.R. Martin	My rating:
Apr 28, 2012 11:54pm
Roger Kean gave to: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller read in April, 2012	My rating:
There was always a central problem with the movie Troy, the elephant in the room, so to speak, and that was the lacking homoerotic context. It made Achilles' rage over the death of his "cousin" Patroclus weirdly over the top. Madeline Miller puts the...more
Apr 27, 2012 12:09am · see review
Roger Kean gave to: Eromenos by Melanie J. McDonald (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2012	My rating:
A well constructed, believable, and enjoyable reconstruction of Hadrian's love affair with Antinous, only spoiled by some overlong passages of magical recipes. The conclusion fits perfectly with the novel's main theme of the impossibility of enduring...more
Apr 10, 2012 01:35am · see review

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