1st Patron
After years of research Doctor Frankenstein finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, whom he names Eva.
Father Byles
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Mayor's Son
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Farmer
A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.
Reading Knight
One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
Pete Colwyn
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
Maj Cusper
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.