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A Good Year

A Good Year

Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself.

Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will - an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about the money in modern wine, he heads for France.

What Max discovers is a beautiful house, wonderful weather and a bustling village. The downside is the quality of the wine in his vineyard, but when Max suggests calling in an expert, Roussel, a former employee of his uncle's, is resistant. Help is at hand, however, when a beautiful blonde Californian arrives unexpectedly at the chateau.

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A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence

Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's best-selling, much-loved account of 'A Year In Provence'.

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Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time

Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Prince Rainer, a man she barely knew, asked for her hand in marriage.

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The French Riviera - A Literary Guide for Travellers

The French Riviera - A Literary Guide for Travellers

While The French Riviera - A Literary Guide for Travellers is a story of the many writers who came to the French Riviera, where they lived, how their stay influenced their lives and work, and influenced others who followed in their footsteps, it is also a very moving story about the French Riviera.

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The Illustrated Olive Farm

The Illustrated Olive Farm

The Olive Trilogy is the story of the love affair between actress Carol Drinkwater and television producer Michel Noll and a Provençal olive farm,n bAppassionata, which they fall in love with, buy and with little money and many tribulations restore with the aim of producing the finest olive oil.

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The Olive Season

The Olive Season

‘ I scan the terraces, planted with row upon row of ancient olive trees. It is April, late spring. Here in the hills behind the Cote d’Azur the olive groves are delicately blossomed, with their tiny, white-forked flowers.

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The Oliver Tree

The Oliver Tree

THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries.

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The Olive Farm

The Olive Farm

"All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house overlooking the sea. In my mind's eye, I have pictured a corner of paradise where friends can gather to swim, relax, debate, eat fresh fruits picked directly from the garden and great steaming plates of food served from an al fresco kitchen and dished up on to a candlelit table the length of a railway sleeper..."

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The Olive Harvest

The Olive Harvest

“The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear ... The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a breath of life. Only the two of us, a most implausible pair, standing shoulder to shoulder gazing upon an awakening heaven”

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The Olive Route

The Olive Route

Since Carol Drinkwater moved to an olive farm in France she has developed a passion for the olive tree and the culture that has grown up around it.

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