David Brining: 9 books

The Priapin's marriage is beginning to crack. Sergey, a wealthy media mogul and possible Parliamentary candidate, and Tanya, a high-flying lawyer, barely talk, and when they do, it's to exchange barbed comments about each other's pasts. Caught in the middle, their sons Misha and Sasha, dream of a...

The first in a series of linked short stories, 'Life Begins at Forty' introduces the Ribakov family of Volgograd. As the Russian economy, society and everything they have ever known disintegrate around them, father Nikolai, mother Nina and teenage son Ivan struggle to retain their dignity and integrity...

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 brother, and befriends a young cashier called Nastia...

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 best friend is murdered by a monk, Nicolas'...

When Iraqi teenager Ali Al-Amin’s parents are killed by a terrorist bomb, he is recruited by Arab Intelligence as the 'lone wolf', a teenage spy defending the Arab-Islamic world from Al-Qaeda, ISIS and other terror groups. In this first book, Ali is sent to Syria, turned into a human bomb, a dead...

A Veritable Jackdaw's nest of a book containing secret societies, conspiracies and counter-conspiracies, Jacobites, Inquisitors, artists and dramatists, jays and jackdaws, velcro jumping, Jewish Zen Buddhist blues, mathematical opera, Jacobean theatre, folk and jazz, kings and popes, Jason and JASON,...

Norwich August 1272.Nicolas de Bromholm lives with his parents and baby sister in 'The Mischief Tavern' and spends his summer playing with his dog, scrumping apples, learning to cook and trying to catch the eye of the mayor's beautiful daughter. When his father's best friend is...

Join Adam and Lucy, Rick and Kim, Ninja and Animal, Handy Mandy the Missing-Part Tart, Billy the Rent Boy, 'Birch'em' Bircham, Swindells and Leech, Hawker and Flashman and Cruikshank the Preacher on an epic journey through London as Adam searches for his missing father in a contemporary reworking of Homer's Odyssey and comes face-to-face with life in the New Millennium.

Out: A Schoolboy’s TaleWhen 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 his relationships with family,...