To Noto. Or London to Sicily in a Ford (signed copy)

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1989.

Signed Presentation copy from the author to fellow author and colleague at Magdalen College, Oxford, Justin Wintle, inscribed, "To Justin, who had it then but who's having it signed now, Love Duncan, Leamington Rd Villas, May 10th '90" to the titlepage. First Edition. Hardback with the excellent dust-jacket, lightly creased in places. A near fine copy. Tantalised by the image of a golden city near a black lake in the deepest south of Europe, Duncan Fallowell sets off from London in his Ford Capri. He weaves down to Provence, through Tuscany and Calabria, to the furthest tip of Sicily. Within shimmering landscapes and citrus groves, along blue coastlines, and behind radiant, crumbling facades, lies an unsuspected world. As Fallowell strays into it, he becomes involved with an exotic cast of characters, and paints an unforgettable portrait of the Mediterranean - comic, cultured, sexy, unpredictable, violent, humane, and timelessly superb.