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DATE OF RELEASE: 28 AUG 2025

‘Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas’

It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie – as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.

 

Hardback, clothbound 
Publication: 28 Aug 2025, Penguin Classics

ISBN: 9780241767061

Extent: 336 pages

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      DATE OF RELEASE: 28 AUG 2025

      ‘Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas’

      It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie – as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.

       

      Hardback, clothbound 
      Publication: 28 Aug 2025, Penguin Classics

      ISBN: 9780241767061

      Extent: 336 pages

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