Michael Haag

Mary as Theotokos 6th century St Catherine's monastery, Sinai From The Quest for Mary Magdalene by Michael Haag. C...

American Airlines advertisement Esquire 1930s

Anne Farnol is a passing character in Constance, the central volume of Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet .  It is wartime, about 1940,...

Over the years I have done various posts concerning  the outstanding and delightful Greek poet  Nanos Valaoritis  who died last Friday age...

My copy of the 1945 edition. Three Caravan Cities - Petra - Jerash - Baalbek - and St Catherine's Monastery Sinai by Paul Gotch wa...

Patakis in Athens have just published Alexandria: City of Memory  in a fresh translation.

Maria and Rafaella Seven years ago I did a blog post on Alexandrian women.  Now out of the blue I have received an email from the dau...

You can also find out what the Durrells did next by reading this book .

Corfu town bombed by the Italians in 1941. The Mirror has  run a story  on the terrible end of the Durrells' Corfu idyll when the i...

Corfu fascist parade 1933. The Durrells went to Corfu in 1935, where they seemed able to ignore the darkening political situation in Eur...

The Templars: History and Myth will be published in Turkey by Kronik of Istanbul. This will be the seventh langua...

The family photograph at the top was Gerry's favourite. The Durrells of Corfu has been translated into Greek and published by Patak...

Durrell named the fourth volume of his Alexandria Quartet after Clea Badaro. Recently Simon Parow of Melbourne got in touch, showing me ...

Still flying high: Mountolive, the third volume of The Alexandria Quartet, for sale on a Lisbon airport book rack.

The recent fall of snow in London was photographed by a friend, not the usual view from the streets but over the city's hidden gardens....

In a previous post about the origins of the London area called White City I mentioned some postcards I had come across of the 1908 Fra...

Vesuvius Several times in The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell describes Alexandria as the ‘white city’ as in this excerpt f...