Gerald Durrell

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1956
  • Latest Book:
    July 2011
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Full Series List in Order

The Corfu Trilogy

1 - My Family and Other Animals (1956)
2 - Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (Apr-1977)
3 - The Garden of the Gods (Jul-2011)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • My Family and Other Animals

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    The Corfu Trilogy - 1

    Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart...my family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like ...

  • Two in the Bush

  • Rosy Is My Relative

    “An ‘almost true’ tale” of a man’s adventures inheriting an elephant, so “lovingly embellished . . . you’ll almost wish that you had a Rosy in your family too” -- from the author of the Corfu Trilogy (Kirkus Reviews). When h...

  • Catch Me a Colobus

    The author provides a humorous account of his experiences maintaining a zoo on the Isle of Jersey and exploring the wilds for animals to add to his collection, revealing his concern for the protection of endangered species...

  • Three Singles to Adventure

    Journey to South America on a search for endangered species with the author of My Family and Other Animals. In 1950, Gerald Durrell set off for British Guiana (now Guyana) to collect native wildlife and bring it back to his Jersey Wildlife Preservati...

  • The Battle for Castle Cockatrice

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    What do you get when you cross a bunch of odious toads and ornery fire-breathing birds with one parrot, a distressed dragon, a group of weasels, a troop of mermaids, a herd of unicorns, a band of gryphons, and three children? When Penelope, Simon,...

  • Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

    The Corfu Trilogy - 2

    The Durrell family returns to the island of Corfu, continuing the story begun in My Family and Other Animals. Already an ardent naturalist at the age of 10, the young Gerald lives in an unconventional and disordered household with his mother, sister,...

  • Beasts in My Belfry

  • The Drunken Forest

    Gerald Durrell's Adventurous spirit and spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote ensure his books a place among the best sellers. The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. W...



  • A Zoo in My Luggage

  • The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories

    Tongue-in-cheek irony and genuine humanity infuse a collection of short stories in which nothing--a family picnic, a tour of the English countryside, a three-day cruise around the Greek isles--goes as planned...

  • Mockery Bird

    The tiny island paradise of Zenkali is turned upside down when a civil war breaks out, and the island is invaded not only by the British Military, but by the world press and a fanatical group of conservationists - and all because of a silly bird....

  • The Billion Dollar Brain

    The tiny island paradise of Zenkali is turned upside down when a civil war breaks out, and the island is invaded not only by the British Military, but by the world press and a fanatical group of conservationists - and all because of a silly bird....

  • How To Shoot an Amateur Naturalist

  • The Fantastic Flying Journey

  • The Talking Parcel

    Penelope, Peter, and Simon, after finding a two-voiced parcel, journey to Mythologia, where they meet all the legendary beasts as they strive to save the magical land from the gruesome, evil Cockatrices...

  • Marrying Off Mother

  • Toby the Tortoise

    Gerald, a boy growing up on the Greek island of Corfu, rescues a land tortoise from the sea and introduces it into the company of the frogs, toads, snakes, crabs, octopuses, and other animal friends he has cultivated...

  • The Overloaded Ark

    Gerald Durrell, former director and owner of Jersey Zoo, is internationally famous for his books about collecting wild animals. This text describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence....



  • Fillets of Plaice

    The celebrated naturalist and author of the Corfu Trilogy, shares more humorous reflections on a life spent among humans and animals. In My Family and Other Animals and its sequels, Gerald Durrell writes of his family’s antics during their time on ...

  • The Garden of the Gods

    The Corfu Trilogy - 3

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gerald Durrell has published 21 books.

Gerald Durrell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Garden of the Gods, was published in July 2011.

The first book by Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, was published in January 1956.

Yes. Gerald Durrell has 1 series.
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