#1 – Troubles
In 1919 Major Brendan Archer travels to the Irish town of Kilnalough to visit Angela Spencer, the woman he believes became his fiancée during the First World War. He finds her family’s once-grand Majestic Hotel decaying around them, its rooms overtaken by vegetation, elderly residents and…
#2 – The Siege of Krishnapur
Krishnapur, 1857. As rebellion spreads across northern India, the British residents of a fictional district retreat behind the walls of the Residency. The Collector, confident in Victorian reason and progress, organises the defence while soldiers, officials, clergy, doctors and civilians attempt to preserve the routines of…
#3 – The Singapore Grip
Singapore, 1937. Matthew Webb arrives from England to join the Blackett family’s rubber business and encounters a colonial economy built on trade, labour and assumptions of permanent British power. His idealism, Walter Blackett’s commercial calculations and competing relationships with Joan Blackett and the Eurasian Vera Chiang…