Little Moscow

Little Moscow

by Mick Scully (Author)

Synopsis

The Little Moscow, a shady basement bar at the side of the Grand Union canal in Birmingham, stamping ground for thieves, gangsters and conmen - plus some of the city's more glamorous creatures. Blue-skinned Nathan, a hardknock tattooist, refuses to pay Crawford's protection racket. Nearby, a refugee from Middle Eastern wars finds a body hanging from a lamppost and becomes entangled with a goodtime girl called Veronica and an apartment decorated with abstract art. Roles get reversed, debts get claimed and colours collide - while two would-be Andy Warhols make away with incriminating evidence.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main
Publisher: Tindal Street
Published: 01 May 2007

ISBN 10: 0955138442
ISBN 13: 9780955138447

Media Reviews
An acutely intelligent writer with a style that can deal with murder and rape, but is also capable of deft comedy * Independent *
Mick Scully's interconnecting stories are poignant, pacy vignettes that merge into one brilliant portrait of a city on the make . . . Somebody buy him a drink. * Guardian *
You want it down and dirty? Up the arse or right between the eyes? Then Scully's your man * John Harvey *
Mick Scully is a dark new talent. Little Moscow is full of shocking stories with characters who are disturbingly familiar * Jake Arnott *
Scully initiates profound moral investigations into the lives of his characters, whose dramas evolve from the villains' pubs, canal towpaths and deprived housing estates of the West Midlands * Nicholas Royle *
Author Bio
Mick Scully lives and works in Birmingham: a city whose underworld inspires his fiction. In June 2007 Tindal Street Press published his darkly witty and erotic collection, Little Moscow. The first story in his Little Moscow series was published in the Tindal Street anthology Birmingham Noir.