Brewster Chamberlin: The Durrell Log, A Chronology of the Life and Times of Lawrence Durrell (3rd Edition), Colenso Books

The new Colenso Books edition (October 2019), above

Some more Colenso Books titles

The 2007 first edition.

The new Colenso Books edition book is a much updated, revised, extended, retitled and reorganized edition of the Chronology which the Durrell School of Corfu published in 2007. It's much easier to use than the first edition as it now has running heads and a 16-page “Index of persons”.

Although I already had a copy of the 2007 first edition, I found this new, third edition, from Colenso Books (October, 2019), a compulsive and totally absorbing read.

It has gripped me since I received an advance copy a week ago. It is full of fascinating information, much of which I didn't know, and important corrections of false assumptions or oft-repeated items of misinformation. An essential companion for any reader of Lawrence Durrell's work (and of his contemporaries), it's a rich literary and cultural history of more than a century of diverse international creativity. Brewster Chamberlin's engaging scholarship and personality shine through the 214 pages.

It is the combination of the fascinating bite-sized chunks of information (now set with small spaces between the dated entries), the delightful asides, notes and subtle comments, and the wider literary and historical context, that makes it such an essential volume - a tremendous journey and chronology, full of unexpected surprises. I liked the design and layout too (congratulations to Anthony Hirst).

About Brewster Chamberlin

To order a copy, contact colensobooks@gmail.com

(remember you can also order a copy of my own, just-published book, "This Spinning World" from the same publisher).

https://corfublues.blogspot.com/2019/10/this-spinning-world-43-stories-from-far.html

https://corfublues.blogspot.com/2019/10/this-spinning-world-contents-list-43.html