Mike’s second book Walk East Until I Die, published in 2018, is a comprehensive account of his walk across Ireland and an exploration of its history that he discovers along the way. He starts from Dursey Island in County Cork and ends in Dublin, walking along paths that form the E8 European route to Istanbul in Turkey.

The E8 route, that begins in the Republic of Ireland, passes through England, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria to end in Istanbul, Turkey. Mike is writing a further book about the E8 trek that he continued in 2016 from Liverpool. By May 2019 he had made it as far as Regensburg in Germany.