The Go-Away Bird
The Curtain Blown by the Breeze
Bang-Bang You're Dead
The Seraph and the Zambezi
The Pawnbroker's Wife
The Snobs
A Member of the Family
The Fortune-Teller
The Fathers' Daughters
Open to the Public
The Dragon
The Leaf-Sweeper
Harper and Wilton
The Executor
Another Pair of Hands
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse
The Pearly Shadow
Going Up and Coming Down
You Should Have Seen the Mess
Quest for Lavishes Ghast
The Young Man Who Discovered
the Secret of Life
Daisy Overend
The House of the Famous Poet
The Playhouse Called Remarkable
Chimes
Ladies and Gentlemen
Come Along, Marjorie
The Twins
'A Sad Tale's Best for Winter'



Christmas Fugue
The First Year of My Life
The Gentile Jewesses
Alice Long's Dachshunds
The Dark Glasses
The Ormolu Clock
The Portobello Road
The Black Madonna
The Thing about Police Stations
A Hundred and Eleven Years
Without a Chauffeur
The Hanging Judge
Acknowledgements