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Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by Alaa Al Aswany (bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building).Every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position ... As the threat of world war looms ov ...Show more
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
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
Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
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
Clea by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt in Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by bestselling author Elif Shafak (The Forty Rules of Love). An expat schoolteacher has spent years in exile reflecting on his turmoiled love affair with Justine, a g ...Show more
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category
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
$27.99 NZD
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
Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt in Durrell's epic modern classic 'A master at creating and handling tension ... I was fascinated from the start.' Wilbur Smith David Mountolive, a young English diplomat, has been obsessed with Egypt ever since ...Show more
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
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
Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
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
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' - The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus and Corfu, celebrated ...Show more
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell
$36.99 NZD
$39.99 (7% off)
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
$22.99 NZD
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