Don't Look Now and Other Stories

First collected in 1971, these five long stories place English travellers and professionals in situations where grief, sex, or experiment slips their control. The title story follows a married couple in Venice after the death of a child, among canals, a pair of elderly sisters, and a figure in a hooded coat. Other pieces set a schoolmaster among forgeries and menace on Crete, a young actress on an Irish errand that exposes a family secret, tourists on a Jerusalem Holy Week procession, and a scientist in a remote laboratory concerned with death and communication. The mode is contemporary unease rather than period romance. There is no continuous plot across the volume.

Frontispiece and 8 colour illustrations. Bound black cloth, cover blocked with an image in greys and red. Red endleaves, Black slipcase.