Durrell fell foul of migrant law
Lawrence Durrell - one of the best selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century - was refused British citizenship at the height of his fame, it emerged yesterday. Durrell, author...
View ArticleObituary: Cecily Mackworth
She wove journalism, novels and poetry from her travels and literary friendshipsCecily Mackworth, who has died aged 94, was a writer, traveller, war correspondent and rebel. Her friendships included...
View ArticleDigested classics: Justine by Lawrence Durrell
I have escaped to this island with the child, Melissa's child. As the night is snatched from darkness by Arcturus, I think of my friends and of my beloved Alexandria, with its iodine-coloured meidan of...
View Article1000 novels everyone mst read: War & travel (part one)
Junghyo Ahn: Silver Stallion (1990) It is September 1950, and General MacArthur — known throughout war-struck Korea as "General Megado" — has just landed his troops at Inchon. The soldiers establish an...
View ArticleAmateurs in Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage by Joanna Hodgkin – review
Lawrence Durrell's wife Nancy, an artist, was silenced by his bullying. Their daughter finally tells her storyAnyone who spent their formative years reading My Family and Other Animals, Gerald...
View ArticleGuardian Books podcast: Lawrence Durrell at 100
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the poet and novelist Lawrence Durrell, so we've devoted this podcast to finding out how well his most famous work – The Alexandria Quartet, newly...
View ArticleAmateurs in Eden by Joanna Hodgkin – review
The story of a bohemian marriage: Nancy and Lawrence DurrellBeing married to a writer can be tough. Being married to a male writer who's embarrassed having you around his friends is especially tough....
View ArticleRereading: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell, born 100 years ago, is best known for The Alexandria Quartet, a study of modern love with a plot full of surprises – there are shocks around every dusty cornerThe Alexandria Quartet,...
View ArticleReading group: The Alexandria Quartet
For many important reasons, this month it's my choice: Lawrence Durrell's masterpieceComrades, fellow-readers, brothers and sisters.Owing to the ongoing world situation and following a discussion here...
View ArticleThe Alexandria Quartet: Mirrors and telescopes
One of the almost infinite perspectives available through which to look at Durrell's kaleideoscopic story is to consider its focus on opticsThe first thing that everyone notices about the first book of...
View ArticleThe Alexandria Quartet: 'Love is every sort of conspiracy'
Love takes many forms in Lawrence Durrell's tetralogy. But as the web of relationships in the Alexandria Quartet grows ever more complicated, can you tell me the truth about love?Lawrence Durrell...
View ArticleThe Alexandria Quartet: revelations
It's the final week of our discussion about Lawrence Durrell's masterpiece. What have we learned? And what is left?The conversation about the Alexandria Quartet has been so fascinating this month that...
View ArticleThe Black Book by Lawrence Durrell – review
Lawrence Durrell's first major work is notable for its savagery and obscenity, but that's what makes it so enjoyableWhen TS Eliot received the typescript of Lawrence Durrell's The Black Book at Faber...
View ArticleLawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho
In 1963, novelist Lawrence Durrell and composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks wrote an opera for Maria Callas: it was never performed – until nowIt's a hugely unusual situation," says Jennifer Condon. "No...
View ArticleArt of fear: which are the best books inspired by the second world war?
As a weekend of talks and music at the Southbank Centre explores our cultural debt to the 1940s conflict, we ask which other great works were born on the battlefieldThe Rest Is Noise, a festival of...
View ArticleSimon Hoggart's week: Corfu's three colours blue, with Durrell's rosy tint
Much of Corfu's most famous book consisted of tiny grains of fact, puffed full of air and coated with sugar✒We're just back from a short holiday on Corfu. Lovely. The sea was three colours: eggshell...
View ArticleObituary: Cecily Mackworth
She wove journalism, novels and poetry from her travels and literary friendshipsCecily Mackworth, who has died aged 94, was a writer, traveller, war correspondent and rebel. Her friendships included...
View ArticleDigested classics: Justine by Lawrence Durrell
I have escaped to this island with the child, Melissa's child. As the night is snatched from darkness by Arcturus, I think of my friends and of my beloved Alexandria, with its iodine-coloured meidan of...
View Article1000 novels everyone mst read: War & travel (part one)
Junghyo Ahn: Silver Stallion (1990) It is September 1950, and General MacArthur — known throughout war-struck Korea as "General Megado" — has just landed his troops at Inchon. The soldiers establish an...
View ArticleAmateurs in Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage by Joanna Hodgkin – review
Lawrence Durrell's wife Nancy, an artist, was silenced by his bullying. Their daughter finally tells her storyAnyone who spent their formative years reading My Family and Other Animals, Gerald...
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