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.

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

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

An elderly man's relationship with his old leather belt takes a strange turn

Colleagues try to retrieve a typescript after its author suffers a stroke - with unexpected results.

A man becomes increasingly averse to various sounds, with problematic results.