These stories have accumulated over the years, and have become fictions rather than memoirs, transformed by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth. The characters appear in each others' stories, giving a picture of an entire community and a beautiful landscape.

The stories in this collection all deal with psychological aspects of love - love given and withheld, love craved and lost, and love met and disappointed.

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Arthur Conan Doyle's complete works - four novels and five collections of short stories - has been brought to life by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, in this The Definitive Collection. In addition, Stephen has written and narrated nine insightful, intimate and deeply personal...

Deception, blackmail, murder and revenge - these are the themes of stories that move from London to the Spanish coast, from Mauritius to Dublin. Whether his subject is assassination or confidence tricks, Frederick Forsyth is always compulsive. Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 1982

In Piranha to Scurfy, Ruth Rendell deals with a variety of themes, some macabre, some vengeful, some mysterious, and all precisely observed.