'Story Box' is a collection of short stories about people struggling to get by in a world where the line between right and wrong is no longer certain. With a cast list ranging from fatherless children to lonely old ladies, from teenage poisoners to reformed hit-men, many of the stories in this book have been previously published in magazines in the UK or Scandinavia. Sometimes the morality of the men and women depicted here is opaque, to say the least, but even the wrongdoers are themselves the victims of circumstance. As are we all.