Table of Contents

CHAPTERS
1. A Change of Plans
2. A Draft of Kummel
3. Wreaths of Smoke
4. Sitting with Carlisle
5. A Chasm, Deep and Dark
6. Eloge a l'Arpege
7. You die if you don't have dollars
8. Mahogany Noir
9. Pandaemonium
10. Khaketian Saperavi
11. Uncle Charles
12. Fax Infernal
13. 'Shy' is not a name for love
14. 28/7 Sorge
15. Exquisite Fonts of Light
16. 'Papa' Rostov & the Militant Atheists
17. Kvanchkara Slooshayesh
18. Russian Evil
19. Apostatic concerns
20. From Guilt unto Oblivion
21. Chaliapin and The Green Bortsch
22. By Zuk
23. A Ghost in The Stilted Dacha
24. 'Death, thou art so mundane'
25. Schismatic, Sable Phantom
26. Masha, Shashlyk (A vision foretold)
27. 'Kva, Kva, Kva'
28. Stet Fortuna Domus
29. Lament of Futile Endeavours
30. Along The Dead Donets
31. Love Beneath The Kurgan
32. Under The Swell
33. A Sow's Nipple
34. Alien Parkland of Gloom
35. Billy on the Cote d'Azur
36. La Fee Verte
37. Toscano Cheroots
38. A Sea of Pthalocyanine
39. Sturgeon in Gogol Street
40. The Plan of Asov
41. Strelkov and The Eternal Flame
42. A Volume of Low Wattage Light
43. Dells, Protuberances & Deep Folds
44. Hot Dog and Go
45. Dark Green Lada Niva Saloon
46. Cold Chain
47. Material Shibboleths
48. The Odour of Disinfectant
49. Pigsty of Filth
50. Boiled Gourd and Sheep Sausage
51. Haze of Broken Signals
52. Between The Huts
53. Art is The Vanguard
54. Automatic Voltage Regulator
55. Nikon FM2
56. Pagan, Impure, Abberations
57. Mirko
58. A Dismal Equation
59. Concentric Circles
60. Cargo 200

About the Author

Henry Virgin's first novel 'Exit Rostov' set in 1990s post-Soviet, south of Russia embeds us in the northern Caucasus, amongst the tenement blocks of Rostov-on-Don's micro-raions, and the fervent mind of Frederick, seeking his lost friend Cazimir, and meaning, in an existential rite of passage. His poetry books 'Hot Pink Peach', 'Anthelion 1996', 'The Glass Aubergine' and 'The Phantisaese', investigate the machinations of the human psyche in lyrical feats of poetic abstraction and beauty. His south China travel journal, 'Teaching in Tangxia' records in diary format, an evocative portrait of a small English language school in a booming Guangdong factory town at the turn of the century, when China became a member of the WTO. His writing has been published in the Independent, The Moth Magazine, The Highland Park News, the Pasadena Star, The Wells Street Journal, The Clerkenwell Post, Russian Art and Culture, Slow-Words, the Full House Literary Festival, Shepherd.com, and Fugitives and Futurists.

Reviews

"A Fascinating Book." -- Charles Cumming. "A great literary, poetic, and artistic read"; "This book initially reminded me of Paul Auster's masterpiece, Leviathan"; "...I remember feeling like this the first time I picked up The Catcher in the Rye. That certain je ne sais quoi that sticks with you even after you close the book."; "The imagery in this book - both in prose and art work is powerful. I wasn't sure if I was going to like this at first. The poetry was odd...and the illustrations were haunting"; "...something about this book pulled me in I can't quite put my finger on it, but somewhere in the off-beat style I got lost in a story of friendship, betrayal, discovery, and travel."; "What I loved...was the integration of media; photos, poems and paintings that gave the narrative additional depth, placing the reader in the visual field of all the main events and tracing the narrator's profound journey through love and war."