Clea (Alexandria Quartet; Book 4) by Lawrence Durrell

Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the fourth) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.

Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet; Book 3) by Lawrence Durrell

Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the third) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.

Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet; Book 2) by Lawrence Durrel

Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the second) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.