A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocket ship constructed in the...

Back in the day, Carter Langdale?s job could be summed up easily: solve every problem that has anything whatever to do with animals. He had an official RSPCA brass plaque outside his Yorkshire home. He was a local figure, like the doctor or dentist, the village postmistress, the vicar, the vet or the undertaker, and sometimes he had to be bits of all of those. Off duty? No such thing. People would knock on the door and present the Langdales with a...

Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H.H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry - Jeffrey Archer presents this sixth collection of stories. Originally published: London: Macmillan6

This is the second volume of short stories from the bestselling author of Midnight is a Lonely Place and Lady of Hay. There are over 30 stories, most contemporary, some historical, some spooky or humorous, many of them love stories.

With an afterword in which Stephen King describes the inspiration behind each of these short stories, 'Full Dark, No Circles' contains close-up portraits which bristle with intensity.