“Holidays, Beasts, and Other Nonsenses” is a sequel to “My Family and Other Beasts” — “a book that literally fascinates me” (Sunday Times) and “the most delightful idyll imaginable” (The New Yorker) — and “Birds, Beasts and My Family” (DT). With unfailing love, impeccable accuracy and inimitable humor, Darrell tells about the five-year stay of his family (including his older brother Larry, that is, Laurence Darrell - the future author of the famous "Alexandrian Quartet") on the Greek island of Corfu. These novels and collections have sold millions of copies around the world, have become reference books for several generations of readers, and in England even entered the school curriculum. "The Corfu Trilogy" (which has grown to six books over time) was transferred to the television screen three times. The last time was in 2016,. When the British company ITV released the first season of the series “Darrells” Directed by Edward Hall ("Downton Abbey" ,) "Miss Marple Agatha Christie" . The collection is published in a new translation by Sergey Task, whose translations by Tom Wolfe and John Le Carré, Stephen King and Paul Oster, Ian McEwan, Richard Yates and Francis Scott Fitzgerald have already become classics.