Kenneth Branagh

In the title story of this collection, Mr Holdsworth, a railway engineer, falls in love with Phillis Holman and she with him, although they do not declare their feelings. He is sent to Canada but confides to his friend, Paul Manning, that he intends to return to England and ask for her hand in marriage.

After a year missing in action, Bond is back. Brainwashed by the KGB and on a mission to assassinate M. To prove his worth to the Service, he must hunt down and eliminate his fiercest opponent yet: "Pistols" Scaramanga - The Man with the Golden Gun.

Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society - a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider.