 His comic gothic novel "Sounds Familiar or The Beast of Artek"  (2016) - about the manipulation of our childhood monsters and fears – is set in London.An experimental novel "The Orgone Box" (2017), full of allusions to the life of the Marxist Freudian thinker Wilhelm Reich is written in an Anglicised Russian.The nonfiction "A Yarmulke under the Turban" (2018) is about Zinik's travels around Turkey retracing the steps of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Shabtai Zvi who converted to Islam in 1666.