17 NOVEMBER 1990, page 28

His Finest Hour

Ian Buruma talks to Peregrine Worsthorne about Britishness THERE is much about Peregrine Wors- thorne that reminds me of the Kelloggs Cornflakes packet, the one with the Spit-......

Lawrence Durrell

Patrick Leigh Fermor remembers the writer, who died last week ABOUT 40 years ago I heard Larry Durrell describing someone as `a man who pumped the oxygen back into the air'. It......