South Wind

Norman Douglas lived a long and scandalous life. Born in 1868, he was a lifelong hedonist and spent much of his time 'hopping it' across borders to avoid arrest. South Wind, his most highly regarded work, is set on the fictional island Nepenthe, a thinly disguised portrait of Douglas's beloved island of Capri.

A fascinating book, in the original sense of the adjective – spell-binding, mesmeric, and sometimes disturbingly prophetic... We leave it slightly drugged and mystified, yet somehow slighly more aware of things than when we started'