Saki

When Loona Bimberton pulls off a coup with her celebrated 'Algerian aviator', Mrs Packletide feels compelled to respond.

An author, at work on the third chapter of his eighth novel, is interrupted by an encyclopaedia salesman.

Octavian Ruttle's guilt over his killing of a chicken-stealing cat is not helped by the growing hatred of its owner's children.

Two half-brothers - one a farmer, the other an artist - come to blows over their differing aesthetic viewpoints.

Alethia Debchance, raised on a strict diet of romance novels, leaves home for the first time to visit her distant cousin Robert, an aspiring

Boredom leads a rector into temptation following his move to a country parish.

The government's success in a by-election becomes dependant on the acquittal of an obviously guilty man.

The Stossens encounter more problems than expected when they try and crash a garden party through an apparently empty paddock.

A woman tells of a particularly stressful experience involving a visiting bishop, a flood and a hungry leopard.

The great king Hkrikros - a devout worshiper of the sacred and esteemed serpants - depairs as his favourite nephew begins to show signs of C

In the window of a dismal 'Toy Emporium' a particularly horrible doll in peach-coloured velvet with leopard-skin accessories fires the imagi

A Wanderer and a Merchant argue over the downsides to modern war.