Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels, the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.
Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems, written over a lifetime, capturing its many forms: from rapture, infatuation and urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de BerniEres' first and greatest literary love, a passion evi...[SEE MORE]