Even though Miss Parker is nice, I don’t always like our visits. She has so many words while I have none.

Doris knew exactly why she'd survived. Like her physicist mother and other members of the scientific, military and political elites, she'd been in an immersion tank when the bombs started falling.

It was then, as he was just about to bring his hands flutteringly down, that the most extraordinary smell assailed my nostrils

His watch was a large, solid Breitling which he wore in defiance of all the advice he’d been given...

"Right," said Julia, all of a sudden, "You're on your own now..."

Life's roughest jokes don't have punch-lines.

Then one year she started falling ...

Two travellers meet on the night flight from Bangalore.

The narrator captures a rare rabbit-like creature, thought to be extinct for over a century.

Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.

Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.

A group of people from different backgrounds share a train journey.

Rosie and her Mum have a day at the beach.

'The only thing I ever got off my old man was a birthday card when I was ten.'

Steve interviews Nikolai, the Beast from the East.