David E. Cooper

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

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

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 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.