Imagining Alexandria

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<p>Poetry was Louis de Bernières first literary love and<i>Imagining Alexandria</i>is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved<i>Captain Corellis Mandolin</i>returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction.</p><p>De Bernières was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, and since then he has always travelled with a book of Cavafy's poetry in his pocket. Not surprisingly, his own poems about the distant past, the erotic and the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet.</p><p>Beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Donald Sammut, this is a collection rich in sensuality, nostalgia, and music.</p>

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<p><b>Louis de Bernières</b>is the best-selling author of<i>Captain Corelli's Mandolin</i>, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His most recent books are<i>Birds Without Wings</i>and<i>A Partisan's Daughter</i>and a collection of stories,<i>Notwithstanding.</i></p><p><b>Donald Sammut</b>is a hand surgeon, anatomist and illustrator based in Bath.</p>

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