David E. Cooper

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.

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.

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