Michael Haag was a writer, historian and biographer. He wrote widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds; and on the Mediterranean and the Middle East. He was regarded as the world's foremost Durrells scholar. His books for Profile include The Durrells of Corfu and the bestselling Templars series.
Praise for Michael Haag: 'Haag is a romantic pluralist, with an instinctive taste for the esoteric, the independent and the defeated; and a corresponding distrust of victors and orthodoxies * TLS * Family stories are worth telling, and this one is fascinatingly put together by Michael Haag... An absolutely riveting read * Daily Mail * Haag's Alexandria goes further than any other book I know to animate the world these people lived and loved * Sunday Times * Ending this haunting book, some readers may want to re-read it at once * Guardian *