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.

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.

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.

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 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.