Lawrence Durrell

Four legs good, two legs bad – the philosophy of Gerald Durrell

7 December 2024 9:00 am

From a young man determined to protect the world’s vulnerable species, Durrell became in middle age someone who loathed the species of which he was a member

Joan was ‘a lovely boy-girl... like a casual, loving, decadent Eton athlete’, according to Cyril Connolly

A sensual Greek goddess

28 October 2017 9:00 am

Joan Leigh Fermor died in 2003, aged 91, after falling in her bathroom in the house on a rocky headland…