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The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Lose 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.' Andre Aciman'A magician.'... -
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Lose 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... -
The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.' DBC Pierre 'A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ... Richly obscene,... -
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Lose 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 ... -
Justine by Lawrence Durrell 9780143119241
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119241Author Lawrence DurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
Judith: A Novel by Lawrence Durrell 9781453270806
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $22.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453270806Author Lawrence DurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Lose 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...
White Eagles Over Serbia by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.47Lose yourself in this classic 1950s Cold War spy thriller tracking a British secret agent in Communist Serbia by the celebrated of The Alexandria Quartet, perfect for fans of John le Carre.'A...
The Revolt of Aphrodite: Tunc and Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.47When a genius inventor is seduced by a mysterious firm to create a robot, technology may save him - or be his undoing ... Lose yourself in this dystopian novel by the bestselling author of The...
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Peter Porter
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973),...
Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Lose 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 .....
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.06Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances in Lawrence Durrell's seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt that is 'stunning' (Andre Aciman) and 'wonderful' (Elif...
The fruitful discontent of the word: a further collection of poems Lawrence Durrell 9780992863272
Booksplease Price: $13.48A selection of mainly late poems by Lawrence Durrell which were not included in COLLECTED POEMS 1931-1974, but appeared only in prose works and have not been collected before. Poems drawn from...
The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.34The Avignon Quintet gathers Lawrence Durrell's five kaleidoscopic, Booker Prize-nominated novels - orbiting around the South of France in World War II - into one epic modern classic, one of 'the...
The Durrell Log: A chronology of the life and times of Lawrence Durrell by Brewster Chamberlin
RRP: $20.77Booksplease Price: $19.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912788040Author Brewster ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Impr
The Lydia Steptoe Stories: Faber Stories by Djuna Barnes
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.22Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and...
From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings by Lawrence Durrell 9781772120516
RRP: $45.55Booksplease Price: $33.90"...the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet." -Lawrence Durrell Best...
Amateurs In Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage: Nancy and Lawrence Durrell Joanna Hodgkin 9781844087945
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anais Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences, Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again...
The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen 9781471136207
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene' Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious DaysWhen...![The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen 9781471136207 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9686869/10703585/9781471136207__83019.1781308440.jpg?c=1 "The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen 9781471136207 [USED COPY]")
The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen 9781471136207 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.22'The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene' Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious DaysWhen...
You Can Get Arrested For That by Rich Smith 9780552174633
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States - a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books.In the...
Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew Edwards 9781838601829
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.80This compelling guide uncovers Sicily's multi-faceted personality through famous literary figures. Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning...
For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into...![For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10117045/11133380/9780099436737__95399.1788934545.jpg?c=1 "For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737 [USED COPY]")
For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.41For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into...
Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.In this second collection of tales...
The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter 9780140448054
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, it recounts the adventures of Encolpius and...![Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto 9780099487043 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701228/10717932/9780099487043__13010.1781355794.jpg?c=1 "Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto 9780099487043 [USED COPY]")
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto 9780099487043 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.64Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother...
The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second...
A House In Corfu by Emma Tennant
Booksplease Price: $17.62A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s, Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted...
Wild Olives: Life in Majorca With Robert Graves by William Graves
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family...
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn Donald Spoto 9780099487043
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother...
Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 9780140443349
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which remained his...
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell 9780241955840
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with...
The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta by Andrew O'Hagan 9780091895785
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In 2001 a group of authors including Andrew O'Hagan, Tony Hawks and Irvine Welsh were given the opportunity to visit Sudan, one of the world's most inaccessible countries. The resulting book: The...
The Penguin Dictionary of Jokes by Fred Metcalf
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Looking for a good joke? Searching for an ice-breaker for that after-dinner speech? Or are you just in need of a few laughs?Then stop! Your search is over. This book is the finest, funniest...
Without Reservations: The Travels Of An Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach 9780857500342
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities - Paris, Venice, London and Oxford - when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from...
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader...
Olinger Stories by John Updike
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." These stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then in various...
Guide to Greece: Central Greece by Pausanias
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings,...
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging...