The publication date for Amateurs has been pushed back to February 9th as there has been a slight delay in getting finished copies. As the Lawrence Durrell centenary is in February – the 27th – this makes perfect sense. Apropos … Continue reading
Well, what d’you know? Turns out both the words Amateurs and Eden are triggers for home-grown porn sites, so my website exists amongst a deluge of the kind of pics that pubescent boys are drawn to. Who knows, it might … Continue reading
A query from the publicist at Virago about exclusivity in research prompted me to look at this afresh. Some first thoughts: obviously there has been some material which only I’ve had access to, handwritten stuff by my mother, etc, but … Continue reading
The photograph of Nancy sitting under a tree which has been used for the jacket dates from 1935, their first summer in Corfu. They were both overwhelmed by the colour and intensity of the place. Larry sent the picture to … Continue reading
This seems like a good image to celebrate the site going live. It was a pleasantly surreal moment, to look up from my morning coffee a few weeks ago and see this happy swine flying over Battersea Power station. A … Continue reading
