David E. Cooper

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.

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 rich Englishman decides to spend his life wandering around Sri Lanka in order, he believes, to live in accordance with the Buddha's teachings.

The reclusive Michael is devoted to the Japanese bamboo flute. When his pupil, Clare, introduces him to a young American player, a jealous Michael hatches an unusual plan to discredit him.

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.