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Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
$20.00 AUD
Category: 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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Brandt Nudes by Bill Brandt and Lawrence Durrell
$90.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Few photographers have spanned the genres from photojournalism to true artistic endeavour as completely as Bill Brandt. Yet Brandts journalism was never strictly reportage: all his work reflected a clear artistic purpose. His qualities as an artist, recognized by all his peers as outstanding, were never ...Show more
Clea by Lawrence Durrell
$25.00 AUD
Category: 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
Esprit de Corps - Sketches from Diplomatic Life by Lawrence Durrell
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Faber Paper-Covered Editions Ser.
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 cris ...Show more
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
$20.00 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
Justine by Durrell, Lawrence
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the first) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Ink
The Egyptian city of Alexandria once boasted the world's greatest library, home to scholars dedicated solely to the pursuit of knowledge. But on the eve of World War II, the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel find that their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to know-and posse ...Show more
Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
$25.00 AUD
Category: 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 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Consisting of Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea, The Alexandria Quartet explores the sexual and political intrigues of a group of expatriates in Egypt before and after the Second World War. In Justine, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the recent end of his affair with the dark, passio ...Show more
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell
$39.99 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