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  • The Black Book

    by Durrell,Lawrence ...
    Excerpt Let us take a novelist-in-the-cupboard peep at Tarquin. He has already managed to crawl out of his tepid bed and lift the window sash. The sight of the snow disgusts him. By instinct he hops back and draws the covers up to his chin, trying to hurl himself back into dream with skinny ferocity. No good. Then he remembers the dream he was having and broods pleasantly upon it. A girl on a ... Read more

    $1.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Alexandria Quartet

    Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances in Lawrence Durrell's seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt that is 'stunning' (André Aciman) and 'wonderful' (Elif Shafak).'A masterpiece.' Guardian'A formidable, glittering achievement.' TLS'One of the great works of English fiction.' Times'Dazzlingly exuberant ... Superb.'</str... ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    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.' André Aciman'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' Jan Morris'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' Victoria Hislop'These days I am... ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spirit of Place

    Mediterranean Writings edited by A.G.Thomas

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Lose yourself in the definitive collection of glorious travel sketches by our century's best loved voyager and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.'Depicts the brio of Durrell's existence with intoxicating vividness.' New York Times'Much more than just a chronicle of his travels ... Reveals Durrell's honesty, outspokenness, warmth, and extreme sensitivity to people and to the beauty ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Blue Thirst

    Tales of Life Abroad

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century's most mesmerizing speakers, the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero's Cell, was no more. In the ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Smile in the Mind's Eye

    An Adventure into Zen Philosophy

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The "virtuoso" New York Times –bestselling author's memoir of his spiritual journey with famed Taoist philosopher Jolan Chang ( The New York Times ).Beginning with their first meeting over lunch at Lawrence Durrell's Provencal home, Durrell and Jolan Chang—renowned Taoist philosopher and expert on Eastern sexuality—developed an enduring relationship based on mutual spiritual expl... ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections on a Marine Venus

    A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by 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'A poet's intoxication with landscape, a humanist's appetite for history, and an eye fo... ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Greek Islands

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.'Incandescent.' André Aciman'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' Victoria Hislop'Nobody knows the Greek islands like Durrell.' New York TimesWhite-washed houses drenched in pink bougainville... ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Caesar's Vast Ghost

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    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.'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of the Midi.' Patrick Leigh Fermor'A richly characteristic bouillabaisse by our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean, our old ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Bitter Lemons Of Cyprus

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Narrated by Andrew Sachs ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 9 min

    "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 to Bitter Lemons. Durrell, who lived abroad for much of his life, brilliantly captures the romance, beauty, excitement and sadness of the island, and the lives of the people of Bellapaix where he bought a house ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Prospero's Cell

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    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 TimesIn his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell spent four transformative years on the island jewel of Corfu, fascinated by the ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Sauve Qui Peut

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Imagine if P.G. Wodehouse was a diplomat: Durrell's hilarious foreign office sketches are 'sophisticated funny, but wonderful, and bonkers' ( Joanna Trollope)'A rewarding cocktail based on two parts Wodehouse and one part Saki ... So much fun.' New York Times'Whatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps,... ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD