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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

    $1.99 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

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Justine

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 57 min

    Justine is the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense, wife to the wealthy business man Nessim, a mari complaisant. Her emotional and sexual wildness fuels a highly-charged atmosphere which, caught ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 CAD

  • 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

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dark Labyrinth

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A morality tale from the New York Times –bestselling author that will "delight lovers of the sensuous world of the Greek islands" ( The New York Times ).A group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete's famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent gi... ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $9.99 CAD

  • Judith: A Novel

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fictionIt is the eve of Britain’s withdrawal from Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Israel. But the course of history is uncertain, and Israel’s territorial enemies plan to smother the new country at its birth. Judith Roth has escaped the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $9.99 CAD