The Black Book Louis de Bernieres There's a problem: if he

There's a problem: if he wins

history graduate

Revolutionary France is no place to be

The Island is a society already at work

and a dark magic that could destroy it all

The Black Book Louis de Bernieres There's a problem: if heDurrell'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