In this collection of thirteen short stories are settings as diverse as London, the Welsh Marches, Boulogne, Biarritz, Tunis, Egypt, Southern Africa and an ageing packet-steamer bound for Japan. There are early ideas destined for future development as a full-length novel (A Busman's Holiday and A Man About the House) and plots which are obviously based on the author's own experiences (Brett Young had spent time in Egypt a decade before the publication of Glamour, whilst his own voyage as a ship's doctor took him in the same direction that Chusan sailed). Within this anthology will be found amusing stories, tales of intrigue, adventure, escaped convicts and unlikely liaisons - some bound for success and others for failure. It is an entertaining collection by an author with a gift for telling a lively yarn, who could write as effectively of South Africa as of an English village, the Egyptian desert or a London street. - from Amzon