A Celebration of Olives |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0316728039
THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives,...(read more) |
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A Year in Provence |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 0140296034
Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only image doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious 200-year-old farmhouse in the Luberon and began a new life. In a...(read more) |
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Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence |
 Lawrence Durrell
ISBN: 0571174000
Lawrence Durrell lived in Provence for 30 years. It is the motif of this, his last work, which was published just before his death in 1990. Preserving memories from his intimate experience of the Midi, the book also includes 19 poems inspired by the...(read more) |
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Dickens on France: Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing |
 Charles Dickens, John Edmondson (Editor)
ISBN: 1904955061
"Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris." This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affinity with the...(read more) |
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Encore Provence |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 014024266X
This is a continuation of Peter Mayle's account of an Englishman's life abroad. He tells of a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher, the quest for the finest bouillabaisse and an assortment of characters...(read more) |
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Escape to Provence |
 Maureen Emerson
ISBN: 0955832101
Escape to Provence is the true story of two remarkable women who, with style and energy, carved out new lives for themselves in the South of France in the first part of the last century. An American, Elisabeth Parrish Starr, and an Englishwoman,...(read more) |
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Perfume from Provence |
 Lady Fortescue
ISBN: 0552998583
After losing all their money in the 1929 stockmarket crash, Sir John and Lady Fortescue sold up and bought a tumbledown cottage in Grasse in Provence. This book recounts their trials and tribulations including rebuilding the house, living with the...(read more) |
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The Illustrated Olive Farm |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0297844040
Life on an olive farm vividly described in this newly written and illustrated companion to the bestselling trilogy. |
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The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0349114749
This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on...(read more) |
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The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0752865447
'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 and I cannot tell if it is caused by my lightheadedness or is a freak of nature. |
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The Olive Season: Amour, a New Life and Olives Too |
 Carol Drinkwater
ISBN: 0349115494
Carol Drinkwater's "The Olive Farm" told the lyrical tale of her real-life romance with partner Michel and an abandoned Provencal olive farm which they fell in love with and bought - a double love story, recounting with wit, warmth and...(read more) |
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper |
 John Richardson
ISBN: 0226712451
This is John Richardson's memoir of the time he spent living with and learning from the deeply knowledgeable and temperamental art collector, Douglas Cooper. For ten years the two entertained a circle of friends that included Jean Cocteau, W.H. Auden,...(read more) |
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Toujours Provence |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 0140279342
Despite having already made a spectacle of himself in front of the locals, Peter Mayle tries to settle into the relaxed Provencal way of doing things. However, he finds that there is still much to divert him from his endeavours to lead the quiet life....(read more) |
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Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France |
 Kristin Espinasse
ISBN: 0743287282
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