My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

“Les, muttering wrathfully, hauled the bedclothes off the recumbent Larry and us…”

“Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the …”

“Japan and Hong Kong are steadily whittling away at the last of the elephants, t…”

“Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would …”