Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: 11 Stories

by Peter Robinson

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Better known for his award-winning poetry, here Peter Robinson turns his gaze to the art of the short story. We travel through the West of Ireland with a couple on the brink, we spy on the shadowy life of a Cold War warrior, we follow an Italian girl visiting her boyfriend in hospital. There is hand-to-hand fighting in a Soviet classroom, a girl's suicide in Japan, and an investigation into a seemingly victimless crime.… (more)

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Better known for his award-winning poetry, here Peter Robinson turns his gaze to the art of the short story. We travel through the West of Ireland with a couple on the brink, we spy on the shadowy life of a Cold War warrior, we follow an Italian girl visiting her boyfriend in hospital. There is hand-to-hand fighting in a Soviet classroom, a girl's suicide in Japan, and an investigation into a seemingly victimless crime.

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