Lee Durrell book signing

To celebrate the release of Gerald Durrell's posthumous book 'Myself And Other Animals', Lee will be signing copies of the new book on Sunday 12 January between 11am-1pm. 

Copies of the book will be available to purchase in the Jersey Zoo Gift Shop on the day if you haven’t already picked one up. 

The signing will take place in the Jersey Zoo Gift Shop. No booking necessary.  

Myself and Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies, uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell’s work and archives. The result is an extraordinary journey through Durrell’s life in his own words, edited and introduced by his widow Lee Durrell.

Drawing on a memoir that Durrell started writing before he became too ill to continue it, and an unfinished book from a trip to Australia in 1969 to the Great Barrier Reef, Northern Territory and Queensland, here is the unvarnished story of Durrell’s life, from touching family tributes to golden bats and pink pigeons.

Moving from India to England and then to the always sun-lit Corfu, told with dry wit and insight into our fellow animals, here is the vivid finale of one of Britain’s most beloved conservationists and prose stylists.