Coastwise Lights

Coastwise lights

Literature & Fiction

Ross, Alan

History & Criticism

Collins Distribution

This is the account of a summer journey through Sardinia in the 1950s, an island which at that time had hardly been touched by the twentieth century. The author has also written "Ranji" and two volumes of autobiography - "Blindfold Games" and "Coastwise Lights".

The Bandit on the Billiard Table

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Time Was away: A Notebook in Corsica

Travel

Europe

Collins, Harvill

Blindfold Games

The Harvill Press

<p>In this autobiography, Alan Ross takes up the story of his life and enthusiasms where his first volume, "Blindfold Games" left off. We see him in Paris with John Minton in 1946 and later in Corsica. The book provides a history of metropolitan literary life from the end of the War.</p>

Collins Harvill, Grafton St

This book captures the magical lure of the racecourse in the words of its celebrants: Diarists like Charles Greville, Samuel Pepys, and John Evelyn; poets like Shakespeare, John Masefield and John Betjeman; and novelists like Dickens, R.S.Surtees, D H Lawrence, Hemingway.

The Turf (Small Oxford books)

Oxford University Press

The London Magazine: April/May Issue

Pan/Macmillan

By reliving the Test matches between England and the West Indies, this book traces the relationship between the two sides from the "blackwash" of 1984 to the considerably altered position of 1988. Photographs and text, aided by score sheets and charts, give a record of the highlights.

West Indian Summer

Eagar, Patrick

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from "A Private Country" (1943) to "Vega" (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic career. In his detailed introduction, Porter makes the case for "A Private Country" as one of the most accomplished debut collections of the twentieth century, and traces Durrell's preoccupations and poetic personality within the wider scene. The selection of poems makes its own strong case for the continuing power of this attractive, and wholly individual body of work.

Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell

DURRELL, LAWRENCE

Poetry

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Blindfold Games was the first volume of Alan Ross's autobiography. He was a most attractive man. William Boyd has eloquently described his appeal, 'There was a sophisticated raffishness and glamour about him . . . nothing seedy or earnest. He owned racehorses. He loved women and travel. . . He was a poet and a brilliant writer on cricket.' He was also one of the great literary editors, running the London Magazine in its heyday.This volume begins in Bengal, where he was born, and ends in Germany in 1946 when the author was twenty-four. It takes in his childhood in India, his schooldays in England, his time at Oxford, and, most hauntingly, his experiences on the Arctic convoys during the Second World War. He survived: very many of his friends were killed. To give it a less humdrum description one can turn to the author's own words. 'War, India, cricket: these were my first subjects as a writer and they remain the preoccupations of this book. In due course, the playing of games was replaced by writing about them, and it was to the belief that the best characteristics of each derive from the same source that I nailed my colours. The searching for 'suitable similes' . . . whether for Hammond's off-drive, Stanley Matthews' mesmeric dribbling, or a racehorse's action, was as good a way as I could imagine of relating techniques to aesthetics. . .Perhaps, as much as anything, writing this book has been an attempt to reconcile differing definitions of style and to trace the manner in which a single-minded devotion to sport developed into a passion for poetry.' 'An exceptional autobiography, beautifully written' John Carey'A beautifully composed book' Raleigh Trevelyan'A Delightful account of the first part of his life, which, I shall lay odds, is likely to become a classic' Allan Massie, Listener'A brilliant performance' Anthony Curtis

British & Irish

Faber and Faber

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