David E. Cooper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.