André Aciman: 'I couldn’t finish Moby-Dick. I lacked the patience'
The author of Call Me By Your Name on laughing out loud at The Pickwick Papers and racing through Enid Blyton
April 2019
TV review
The Durrells review – a welcome vacation from our island of nightmares
It’s one last push for the cockle-warming Corfu Brits as a barn owl, an ‘idle walrus’ and the ever-wonderful Keeley Hawes kick off the drama’s final series
February 2018
Durrells TV drama revives the dying ritual of family viewing
As the hit show returns to Corfu for a third series, two of its stars explain the secrets of its ratings success
August 2017
Josh O’Connor: from The Durrells to the ‘Yorkshire Brokeback Mountain’ … and beyond
Early starts, long hours, lots of sheep: the star of God’s Own Country tells of the hard graft behind the acclaimed film
April 2017
The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag review – family, animals and a money-spinner
The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag review – animal magic
May 2016
The Durrells get new biography that 'they would enjoy'
Account of the ‘knockabout’ life of the famous family will cover the years in Corfu recently dramatised for TV, and include their troubled background
April 2016
The Durrells proves a rollicking delight for ITV
If you haven’t read My Family and Other Animals, do so – preferably with a child
September 2014
Gaby Aghion obituary
Founder of the Chloé fashion label who led the way with ready-to-wear collections
January 2014
Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria villa faces demolition
Villa Ambron, inspiration for The Alexandria Quartet, may be bulldozed to make way for high-rise apartment block
July 2013
Simon Hoggart's week
Simon Hoggart's week: Corfu's three colours blue, with Durrell's rosy tint
Simon Hoggart
Much of Corfu's most famous book consisted of tiny grains of fact, puffed full of air and coated with sugar
May 2013
Books blog
Art of fear: which are the best books inspired by the second world war?
Sam Jordison: 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 battlefield
August 2012
Lawrence 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 now, writes Sam Jordison
July 2012
Classics corner
The 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 enjoyable, writes JS Tennant
March 2012
Reading group
The Alexandria Quartet: revelations
Reading group
The Alexandria Quartet: 'Love is every sort of conspiracy'
Reading group
The Alexandria Quartet: Mirrors and telescopes
Reading group
Reading group: The Alexandria Quartet
February 2012
Rereading
Rereading: 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 corner, writes Jan Morris
