The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell was one of the bestselling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Egypt.

In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that Durrell himself described as 'an investigation of modern love'.

'Durrell was a master at creating and handling tension ... I was fascinated from the start.' Wilbur Smith

'One of the most important works of our time.' New York Times Book Review

'A formidable, glittering achievement.' Times Literary Supplement

'The writing is nearly always superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also in the asides, the casual wit and brilliance of comment.' Philip Toynbee, Observer