A Meeting in Valladolid: Shakespeare, on tour in Spain, encounters Cervantes.
The Most Beautified: A surreal, metaphysical examination of beauty.
The Cavalier of The Rose: A literary adaptation of the opera libretto Der Rosenkavalier by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
1889 and The Devil's Mode: Claude Debuss... more »y, while visiting the Rossettis in London, meets Mallarm - whose Afternoon of a Faun he sets to music.
Wine of The Country: A tale of infidelity and sexual licence concerning a British couple in Brunei.
Snow: A loosely autobiographical story of a British man in Malaya during the dying days of the British Empire, intended as a counterpoint to W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain".
The Endless Voyager: An updated The Flying Dutchman, transferred to the airline era.
Hun: The longest of the stories, a novella about Attila the Hun as he prepares to devastate the Roman Empire.
Murder to Music: A pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes story sees the great sleuth solve a symphonic crime.