A selection of short stories and poems taken from this collection of Mervyn Peake's lesser-known work, including the epic poem Rhyme of the Flying Bomb. This collection is read by Mervyn's sons Sebastian and Fabian.
Preface to the book (by Sebastian): Ten years after my father's premature death in November 1968, my mother's own selection of some of his writings was published, as Peake's Progress.
The first complete story my father wrote, The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs was begun in China, where he was born in 1911, and completed at the age of eleven in England, where he had been sent to boarding school. This early story in the collection, tells of Hugh, a thinly disguised Jim from Treasure Island, whose parents, called Silver, unambiguously confirms the powerful influence Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece had on my impressionable father.
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