Clea (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

Clea (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

His affair with Clea, am agnetic, bisexual artist, not only changes the lovers, but transforms the dead, forever - and heralds a new beginning, just as Lawrence Durrell's intoxicating masterpiece

Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic

Alexandria Quartet - Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that the author himself described as 'an investigation of modern

The Greek Islands (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

As every fan of the much-loved travel writer Lawrence Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, from his early years in Corfu to life on the dazzlingly beautiful islands of Greece. In this uniquely captivating book, Durrell weaves together evocative

The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-1980 (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: '...Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels.' Henry Miller, realizing that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked

The Dark Labyrinth (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell's sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaur's labyrinth on Crete

Balthazar (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

During sessions with his psychiatrist, Balthazar, their intricate love affair is cast in a radical, sinister light, illuminating a mysterious plot connected to a recent murder - but Lawrence Durrell's dazzling, kaleidoscopic storytelling means that nothing is ever as it seems

Sicilian Carousel (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

Despite decades spent poetically evoking Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus, and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the sea's largest island: mysterious, impenetrable Sicily. For years, his friend Martine begged him to visit her on this sun-kissed paradise, but

Mountolive (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by William Boyd (bestselling author of Any Human Heart and Restless). 'A master at creating and handling tension

Caesar's Vast Ghost (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

Lose yourself in this classic memoir of idyllic southern France by the bestselling king of travel writing. Provence, Southern France. Celebrated writer and poet Lawrence Durrell made the Midi his home for more than thirty years: and in this, his final book, he shares his most evocative, dazzling

A Year in Marrakesh (Mayne Peter)(Paperback)

Peter Mayne (1908-1979) is to Morocco what Peter Mayle is to Provence or Lawrence Durrell to Greece. This 1953 classic in a new edition captures the very essence of the people and place. Having already learned to appreciate Muslim life when he was in Pakistan, Mayne bought a house in the

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

Cyprus, 1953. As the island fights for independence from British colonial rule, ancient conflicts between Turkish and Greek Cypriots trouble the glittering Mediterranean waters. Into the brewing political storm enters Lawrence Durrell, yearning for the idyllic island lifestyle of his youth in

Black Book (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.' DBC Pierre 'A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ... But as they satisfy violent appetites of the flesh - and mind - their descent into darkness accelerates

White Eagles Over Serbia (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

Lose yourself in this classic 1950s Cold War spy thriller tracking a British secret agent in Communist Serbia by the celebrated author of The Alexandria Quartet. 'A spell-binder

Colossus of Maroussi (Miller Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939. In this book, the author describes drinking from sacred springs, nearly being trampled to death by sheep and encountering the flamboyant Greek poet Katsumbalis, who 'could galvanize the dead with his

Reflections on a Marine Venus (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback)

World War II is finally over, and after four tortuous years serving the Crown in Egypt, Lawerence Durrell seeks peace in the landscapes he has loved since growing up in Corfu: ancient Mediterranean islands. He is posted to Rhodes, and from his first dip in the dazzling blue Aegean - which jolts

Revolt of Aphrodite - Tunc and Nunquam (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

When a genius inventor is seduced by a mysterious firm to create a robot, technology may save him - or be his undoing

Avignon Quintet - Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx (Durrell Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

Rich in invention, psychological truth and sheer entertainment, the five short novels that comprise The Avignon Quintet form one of the key works of an undisputed modern master. 'Another constellation of Mediterranean mysteries and

Whatever Happened to Margo? (Durrell Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Garden of the Gods (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

Gerald Durrell - The Authorised Biography (Botting Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for