The Fleetwood Half-Orphan Asylum. Don Norberg

The Fleetwood Half-Orphan Asylum tells the story of two brothers left in an orphanage in 1927. One runs away. When they next meet, 30-odd years later at their father’s deathbed, they fight. Another 30-odd years on, the son of one brother receives a parcel and a promise of family secrets. It’s a story of brotherhood, what caring means, of love and the absence thereof.

Don Nordberg is the author of Corporate Governance: Principles and Issues (Sage, 2010) and The Cadbury Code and Recurrent Crisis (Palgrave, 2020) and has held professorial roles at City, University of London, and Bournemouth University. He was a long-serving correspondent and senior editor, mainly for Reuters, working on assignment in some 40 countries. He has finished manuscripts for two novels, one a story of family dysfunction, the other a murder mystery and financial thriller. He studied English literature at the University of Illinois and has PhDs from the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter. A long time ago, he published poems in several specialist journals, acted in several plays, and operated sound and lighting for an off-Broadway repertory company. He now writes two Substack publications:

• Don Nordberg (is/on) Writing – donnordbergwriting.substack.com

• How to govern [not like that] – donaldnordberg.substack.com