Grimwig is a novel about a character borrowed from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist. Herbert Grimwig is a sixty-year old retired London bachelor who happens upon a small street waif one rainy October morning. Mr. Grimwig is always wary of orange-peels and banana-skins—left by scurrilous sawbones, hoping for broken arms and legs to be set—and he avoids them. But a small boy? How do you avoid a small rain-drenched and shivering boy? Grimwig is available from Amazon.Com and from Inkwater Press. Bert Hornback is the author of four books about Dickens’s novels, and another forty essays on the great Victorian novelist. He has performed as Dickens—reading from his novels—all over the United States and Canada, and in Ireland, England, the Netherlands, and Germany. Grimwig is his first novel. Hornback is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Michigan and at Bellarmine College, and is currently a professor of English and American literature at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany.