David E. Cooper

An ill woman revisits the place she spent happy years with two dogs

A man is shot at a village cricket match. The police are sure the wrong man was killed.

An ex-pat barber living in Gozo tries to become a living resolution of a famous paradox.

After a traffic accident, a retired postal worker finds that he is able to speak only a private language that he had invented for himself.

An Englishwoman's visit to Sicily recalls a holiday there, twenty years earlier, and her encounter with a mangy beach dog that she was determined to help.

When an elderly man receives a letter he wrote to three girls nearly sixty years earlier, he returns to a town on the Italian Riviera to recall the day he met them.

After a traffic accident, a retired postal worker finds that he is able to speak only a private language that he had invented for himself.

A fox-loving recluse has a fatal encounter with a man intent on shooting a fox. The tragi-comic fall-out from this leads to an unexpected ending.

A woman is attracted to a young artist who is sketching her. When he betrays her trust, she takes a shocking revenge.

Arthur has befriended the crows who live on a bleak Northunberland moor. When a man shoots two of them, Arthur and the birds exact a terrible revenge.

A man is shot at a village cricket match. The police are sure the wrong man was killed.