I tell you love sister it’s just a kiss away. – Jagger & Richards Nothing but the act of physical love tells us the truth about one another. – Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell, like Jagger and ...

Lawrence Durrell—one of the greatest British writers and philhellenes of the 20th century—achieved spectacular success with “The Alexandria Quartet,” the first volume of which appeared in 1957. But ...

Last month saw the centenary of Lawrence Durrell’s birth, an occasion marked by a London gathering of Durrell scholars, a reissue of The Alexandria Quartet and the publication of this account by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Details from the menu for a Christmas Eve supper described in the first novel of Lawrence Durrell’s Avignon Quintet provide a unique ...

I am embarrassed to enjoy Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet so much. It was an early passion of mine and one I revisit for the blowsy comfort it provides and for the disconcerting peeling-off of ...

Amateurs in Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage, Nancy and Lawrence Durrell. By Joanna Hodgkin. Virago; 335 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk GIVEN Greece's economic woes and role as yet another ...

In my early twenties one of my favourite places was a tiny bookshop in a narrow alleyway off Kensington High Street in London. Every Saturday for many years the bookseller Bernard Stone would uncork ...

I’ve been looking forward to this Sunday for weeks because it’s the Sunday that The Durrells in Corfu Season 2 debuts on PBS. I love The Durrells in Corfu with all my heart and soul — even if my ...

The term "faded grandeur" might have been invented for Alexandria. So much of the resort's cosmopolitan elegance has faded that one more crumbling palace in this part of Egypt might not seem to make ...

Durrell’s giant imaginative step out of time and caste argues that self-determination is the fundamental human drive (National Library of Israel) It wasn’t until I was in my twenties and owned a ...