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  • Whatever Happened to Margo?

    In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood ... Read more

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    Whatever Happened to Margo?

    Narrated by Polly Edsell, Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 48 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.*With a foreword from Gerald Durrell***In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever ... Read more

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    The Durrells of Corfu

    by Michael Haag ...
    Narrated by Paul English ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in particular his much-loved bestseller, My Family and Other Animals. These books in turn are based somewhat loosely on actual events. The real-life Durrells went to Corfu at the urging of Lawrence Durrell, who was already living on the island with his wife, Nancy Myers. Their intent was to keep the family ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Durrells of Corfu

    by Michael Haag ...
    The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left?The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Stationary Ark

    From the author of the Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV series The Durrels in Corfu , a zookeeper recounts bringing his dream zoo to life.The first word Gerald Durrell could say with any clarity was "zoo." Animals were his passion. His early years in India were full of routine visits to the local zoo, and if his nursemaid attempted to deviate from this routine, the result was ... Read more

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  • Gerald Durrell

    The Authorised Biography (Text Only)

    This edition does not include illustrations.The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he’d dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation.Gerald Durrell was a world-famous naturalist and popular author who wrote, in all, some thirty-seven ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Garden of the Gods

    Series Book 3 - The Corfu Trilogy
    From the Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV show The Durrells in Corfu , a naturalist's memoir of growing up on a Greek island.When his family moved to a Greek island, young naturalist Gerald Durrell was able to indulge his passion for wildlife of all sorts as he discovered the new world around him—and the creatures and people who inhabited it. Indeed, Durrell's years growing up on ... Read more

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  • Prospero's Cell

    A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu

    From the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet, a memoir of the idyllic Greek island that is "among the best books ever written" ( The New York Times ).The real-life family portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrells in CorfuBefore Lawrence Durrell became a renowned novelist, poet, and travel... ... Read more

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  • Fillets of Plaice

    The author of the Corfu Trilogy—the inspiration for the Masterpiece production T he Durrells in Corfu— reflects on a life spent among humans and animals.In My Family and Other Animals and its sequels, Gerald Durrell writes of his family's antics during their time on the Greek island of Corfu. In his later memoirs, he vividly describes his expeditions to other, faraway places.In Fillets of Plaice, ... Read more

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  • Menagerie Manor

    Series Book 3 - The Zoo Memoirs
    The beloved naturist and author of My Family and Other Animals shares the pleasures and pitfalls of opening a zoo on the English Channel Island of Jersey.Spurred by his passion for animals and a lifelong dream, in the spring of 1959 Gerald Durrell opened the Jersey Zoo—now known as the Durrell Wildlife Park—on the grounds of an old manor house. The menagerie provided a safe habitat for rare and ... Read more

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  • Three Singles to Adventure

    Travel to South America to search for endangered species with the author of The Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV show The Durrells in Corfu .In 1950, Gerald Durrell set off for British Guiana (now Guyana) to collect native wildlife and bring it back to his Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the English Channel.On his journey, Durrell experienced all ... Read more

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  • Rosy Is My Relative

    A Novel

    From the author of the Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the Masterpiece TV series The Durrells in Corfu , a comic novel about a boy who inherits an elephant.When his uncle passes away unexpectedly, young Adrian Rookwhistle's inheritance turns his humdrum life upside down. Instead of a manor house, Adrian has been bequeathed Rosy, an elephant whose predilection for fine spirits leads to high jinks ... Read more

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