Claude-Marie’s death had devastated Lawrence, and his life was to be shattered again when his daughter Sappho took her own life, in 1985. The Ex-Pat Lawrence Durell, Paris, France, October 1984.

As the 100th anniversary of writer Lawrence Durrell's birth occurs this year, his first marriage to the artist Nancy Myers is recalled in a new memoir from her daughter, reviewed here by Paddy Kehoe.

This grabber is the lead-off speech of Lawrence Durrell’s new play, An Irish Faustus, which is playing at Hamburg’s Deutsches Schauspielhaus. Hamburg has been patient with Durrell.

In its first English production, Lawrence Durrell’s Sappho is the outstanding offering of the current Edinburgh Festival. Written more than ten years ago when Durrell had only seen two plays ...