Monday, 16 October 2017

Last Photographs of the Interior of Lawrence Durrell's Tower in the Rue Mamoun

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Bent Christophersen was the last person to photograph inside the Villa Ambron in Alexandria before it was  destroyed last month. I have...
Wednesday, 11 October 2017

St Joseph's School in Darjeeling Honours the Wrong Durrell

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Wrong Durrell in box at bottom right. Lawrence Durrell, who was born in India, attended the Jesuit-run St Joseph...
Sunday, 8 October 2017

Margo Durrell at Malvern Girls' College

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Malvern's pupils' ledger for spring term 1929. Margo Durrell was at Malvern Girls' College  (now Malvern St James Girls'...
Saturday, 30 September 2017

Lawrence Durrell at Canterbury

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Lawrence Durrell was at school at St Edmund's in Canterbury from 1926 to 1927. The school has dedicated a study...
Saturday, 23 September 2017

Today all the Egyptian newspapers are talking about the Villa Ambron and Lawrence Durrell

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Zahraa Adel Awad tells me: ' Today all the Egyptian newspapers are talking about the Villa Ambron and Lawrence Durrell'. Zahraa a...
Friday, 22 September 2017

The Sad End to Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria

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Zahraa Adel Awad has sent me more photographs of the destruction of the  Villa Ambron (see previous post) where Lawrence Durrell lived in a ...
Thursday, 21 September 2017

Lawrence Durrell's Home in Alexandria Destroyed: The End of the Villa Ambron

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19 September 2017 I have received the news tonight from Zahraa Adel Awad in Alexandria that the Villa Ambron where Lawrence Durrell live...
Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Talking Templars

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The Templars: History and Myth is now an audio book. You can  now listen to The Templars: History and Myth by Michael Haag while washin...
Monday, 4 September 2017

Tragedia templariuszy

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Bestseller in Poland Astra in Poland (Wydawnictwo Astra) have acquired the Polish rights to The Templars: History and Myth...