The Black Book Louis de Bernieres an occasion which both recognise

an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation

and a dark magic that could destroy it all

And also resident in the town are huge arctic bears

Following Nicholas and Anna through dangerous and exciting times

The Black Book Louis de Bernieres an occasion which both recogniseDurrell's third work, the original angry young novel, was first published by his good friend and long time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short lived "Villa Seurat" imprint of the Paris based Obelisk Press. Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel, no work better captures the anguish and death consciousness of a Europe about to plunge, once again, into cataclysmic war and destruction