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Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages ...Show more
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Stunning.' - Andre Aciman 'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' - Elif Shafak Cyprus ...Show more
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell; Charles Boyle (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"This is not a political book, but simple a somewhat impressionistic study of the moods and atmospheres of Cyprus during the troubled years 1953-6." So wrote Lawrence Durrell in the preface toBitter Lemons. Durrell, who lived abroad for much of his life, brilliantly captures the romance, beauty, excitem ...Show more
Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A richly characteristic bouillabaisse by our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean, our old Prospero of the south.' - Rich ...Show more
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In the first book of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the story of the mysterious and charismatic Justine is told by her lover, an impoverished Irish teacher who has sought refuge across the Mediterranean in Greece. It is a love story, but the real heroine of the book is its setting: the city of Alexandria ...Show more
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: a seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me) Walking slowly home through the dark avenue of trees, tasting the brackish harbour wind, I remembered Justine saying harsh ...Show more
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' - New York Times In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Law ...Show more
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Lawrence Durrell composed Propero's Cell as if it were a journal or diary of a year and a half on the island of Corfu, and he prefaced his statement of poetic intent by a casual comment, "I am making no attempt to control all this material." Of course he really is, for this is a carefully plotted and th ...Show more
Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes by Lawrence Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War IIby the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician ... Durrell enchants.' - The Times 'A lovely book ... Makes people feel happy ... [So] pleasurable.' - Observer Wo ...Show more
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to rec ...Show more
The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lawrence Durrell's controversial third novel about a debauched group of intellectuals in a London hotel is 'the most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.' (DBC Pierre) 'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature. ...Show more
The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell's sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaur's labyrinth on Crete ...