"Far away Stories" is a collection of short stories from William J. Locke. The collection includes his 1916 short story, "Ladies in Lavender", which was adapted into a film in 2004 starring Dame Judy Dench, and Dame Maggie Smith.Contents: The Song of LifeLadies in LavenderStudies in Blindness I. An old-world episode II. The Conqueror III. A Lover's Dilemma IV. A Woman of the WarThe Princess's KingdomThe Heart at TwentyThe ScourgeMy Shadow FriendsWilliam John Locke (1863-1930), was from Trinidad and Tobago, but studied in England since the age of three. He graduated from Cambridge with honours in Mathematics in 1881, and went on to be a schoolmaster in Oxford Military College, and also at Clifton College, Bristol. He is the author of more than thirty novels, and short stories, some of which were adapted to film, and for the theatre.He died of cancer in 1930 at the age of 67