David E. Cooper

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.

An old and ill Buddhist monk is reunited with the dog that once saved his life.

An author staying in NW Scotland finds inspiration in an old man and his dog, each a victim of war.

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.

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

An elderly and infirm rich man's wife joins her lover in Paris - with unforeseen results

A husband and a wife each decide to contract a hitman to kill the other - with unexpected results.

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

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.