Once Nikolai Nikolayevich worked at the Volgograd Tractor Factory. Now he runs a kiosk. As he turns forty, he reviews his life, his military service, his partisan parents, heroes of the Great Patriotic War, and considers the future of his son Ivan as...
The third story in a series by David Brining exploring life in post-Communist Russia, Sergey Priapin, a wealthy media mogul and possible Parliamentary candidate, is beginning to hate his high-flying solicitor wife. They barely talk, and when they do,...
Oleg Yavlinsky is a good cop, or at least he thinks he is, until a chance encounter with a wealthy businessman challenges everything he holds dear and brings unsettling memories his time in Chechnya back to the surface.A short story about life in Rus...
A short story about life in the chaos and uncertainty of post-Communist Russia. Nina Ribakova is worried about her son Ivan, who is undergoing an operation. She reflects on her relationship with her stern, unbending father and jokey, easy-going broth...
When Iraqi teenager Ali Al-Amin’s parents are killed in a Baghdad market by a terrorist bomb, he is recruited from his orphanage by Arab Intelligence to infiltrate a school for suicide bombers in Syria. Turned into a human bomb, a dead boy walking,...
This epic for a new millennium describes teenager Adam Lycett’s journey from comfortable home to cardboard box when he flees his violent stepfather to find his real father somewhere in contemporary London, a Dickensian cityscape populated by gin-sw...
NORWICH AUGUST 1272. Nicolas de Bromholm lives with his parents and baby sister in 'The Mischief Tavern'. He spends the summer playing with his dog, learning to cook and trying to catch the eye of the mayor's beautiful daughter but, when his father's...
While spending a weekend in York, schoolboy Yo-yo's ring is stolen by Mr Vanilla, a forty stone jewel thief, so he gathers together, among others, Lily Gusset, the reverse drag-artist, Mrs Lollipop, bed-ridden these forty years, Baby the talking blac...
When 15 year old Jonathan Peters falls in love for the first time, it is as unwelcome as it is unexpected because he falls in love with another boy. As his love deepens, his internal struggle with being homosexual spills into the open, impacting on h...