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Michael Haag was a writer, historian and biographer. He wrote widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds; and on the Mediterranean and the Middle East. He was regarded as the world's foremost Durrells scholar. His books for Profile include The Durrells of Corfu and the bestselling Templars series.Highly readable and elegant ... alluring ... What we have is that most interesting approach of literary biographies - the formative years before the fame
Spectator
Haag's depiction of Alexandria ... is the most evocative work of non-fiction I have read
- Cosmo Adair, The Times
Expertly completed
TLS
Fresh and lively ... there's much to admire in Haag's account
Critic
This is an important, often revelatory text
Irish Times
A superb biography .. By the end of its almost 500 pages, you feel you know the man, which is as much as any biographer can hope for
- Thomas W Hodgkinson, The Oldie
It feels right that this biography of Lawrence Durrell, only the second major one since his death in 1990, is by Michael Haag, who spent his career writing about the eastern Mediterranean ... Haag's descriptions of Alexandria's melting-pot culture and its steamy eroticism are wonderfully done
Guardian
Praise for Michael Haag:
'Haag is a romantic pluralist, with an instinctive taste for the esoteric, the independent and the defeated; and a corresponding distrust of victors and orthodoxies
TLS
Family stories are worth telling, and this one is fascinatingly put together by Michael Haag... An absolutely riveting read
Daily Mail
Haag's Alexandria goes further than any other book I know to animate the world these people lived and loved
Sunday Times
Ending this haunting book, some readers may want to re-read it at once
Guardian