There are twelve short stories in A Twist in the Tale, with each promising a twist at the end. The first story, “A Perfect Murder,” follows a man who believes he’s committed the perfect crime. The man is a writer who kills his mistress one evening during a heated argument. He kills her because he discovers that she’s been unfaithful to him. He refuses to go to jail for what he’s done, and so he concocts a plan to lay the blame on the other man. A Twist in the Tale is a 1988 collection of short stories by British author and politician Jeffrey Archer. [1] The collection contains 12 stories, which are listed below. Colonel Bullfrog" explores the remarkable friendship between Japanese soldiers and a British Prisoner of War , which continues to evolve even after the conclusion of World War II. Fears that television and computers would kill children’s desire to read couldn’t have been more wrong.With sales roaring, a new generation of authors are publishing’s newest and unlikeliest literary stars Talán nem. Mégis motoszkál bennem mindig ez, hogy jó ez, de ugyanezt csinálja negyven éve. Neki vajon nem igénye rá, hogy kipróbálja magát egy kicsit más témában is? Nem tudom, nekem biztosan lenne. Persze azzal is tisztában vagyok, hogy ezek a történetek immár 30 évesek elmúltak, szóval nem pont ezeken kéne számon kérnem a megújulás elmaradását - de a 2-3 évvel ezelőtt megjelentekre is éppúgy igazak a fentiek. És még egyszer kiemelném: még így is, még mindig a kedvencek között van.

I'll have coffee with whom I damn well please," she said, "and wearing what I damn well please, especially when you are on your way home to your wife." After gulping down a second cup of coffee I kissed my wife on the cheek and made for the car. It was then that I decided to drop a note through Carla's letterbox rather than cope with the embarrassment of a phone call. I T think there’s still a way to go,’ says Almond, who wishes that children’s books were taken more seriously as literature. Nonetheless, he derives great satisfaction from his child readers. ‘They have a powerful literary culture,’ he says. ‘It feels as if you’re able to step into the store of mythology and ancient stories that run through all societies and encounter the great themes: love and loss and death and redemption.’Just Good Friends is a first person narrative of a how a woman met her boyfriend...the twist in the tale is that we discover at the end that the narrator is actually a cat.

Not fair? Weren't you hoping for your usual at six so you could still be home at seven in time for supper with Elizabeth?" The main character takes a vacation to a remote island. There, they discover a group of people who have been faking their own deaths for years. I know it’s easy enough for you to jump into bed with me whenever it suits you. That’s all I’m good for, isn’t it?”Your parents have told you to avoid the deep forest at all costs, as a deadly monster lives there. But you actually find out that the monster is a made-up story told by the townspeople to keep you from leaving town. When Mark Hapgood has finished high school in Coventry, his father refuses to allow him to join Triumph car factory as a floor worker, the same job his father does himself. They strike a deal that Mark will take a different job for one whole year, after which time he will be free to accept any job – even the car factory, like most of his friends. In a futuristic world, humans are fighting against robots to keep their race alive. However, it turns out that everyone is a robot anyway and the true human race died out years ago. Just Good Friends" presents a unique perspective through a first-person narrative where a woman recounts how she met her boyfriend. The surprising revelation at the end is that the narrator is actually a cat.

Your character has been keeping a secret, which is only unveiled at the very end of your story – Possibly ending your story with a cliffhanger! A teenager is part of a strange cult that believes in aliens living on Earth. It turns out the teenager is an alien herself and is actually brainwashing humans. F No more are children’s authors considered mere sentimentalists or failed adult writers. 'Some feted adult writers would kill for the sales,’ says Almond, who sold 42,392 copies of Skellig in 1999 alone. And advances seem to be growing too: UK publishing outfit Orion recently negotiated a six-figure sum from US company Scholastic for The Seeing Stone, a children's novel by Kevin Crossley-Holland, the majority of which will go to the author. I scoured the other Sunday papers, listened to every news bulletin and watched each news item on television. When my wife became curious I explained that there was a rumour in the office that the company might be taken over again, which meant I could lose my job.A Chapter of Accidents is the story of a man who sets an elaborate trap to revenge a man he suspects of having an affair with his wife. I couldn’t believe that Carla had slept with another man, that she had lied about her love for me – and that I might be second or even third in her affections. Once I had reached the office car park I cleared up the mess on the passenger seat as best I could and left a window open before taking a lift to the washroom on the seventh floor. I tore my lunch invitation to Carla into little pieces and flushed them down the lavatory. I walked into my room on the twelfth floor a little after eight thirty, to find the managing director pacing up and down in front of my desk, obviously waiting for me. I had quite forgotten that it was Friday and he always expected the latest completed figures to be ready for his consideration.