The Courtyard and Other Stories Book

• A journalist inherits property and forgets his own address . . . • A brief encounter between strangers on a ferry becomes a turning point . . . • A lover of silence evolves a strategy for survival in a world of intolerable noise . . . • A grandson discovers at his grandfather’s hospital bed that he has never really known him . . . • The perpetrator of a perfect murder deliberately confesses his crime . . . • A cardiac patient drifts in and out of consciousness . . . • A Foreign Correspondent returns to the drab seaside town of his birth . . . • A thread of fate leads from Frankfurt to the North of England . . . • A scholar discovers a clue to the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays . . . •••• Fourteen unusual stories. Frequently dark and disturbing, sometimes poignant in their exploration of relationships between men and women, often melancholy, occasionally ironical and humorous, but always imaginative, surprising, allusive, stimulating.Read More