There are many things to love about retired life in France. One is the time to read ... and the surprising availability of English-language books.
For the second year running, we attended the book fair at Campsegret, just north of Bergerac.
This is a monster book exchange, with proceeds going to charity.
Costing just one euro, there are thousands of novels and books on all sorts of interesting subjects.
After browsing for half an hour, I came away with five purchases ...
1. a biography of Peter Cook
2. a Rick Stein cookbook
3. a beautifully illustrated guide to making a French potager (vegetable garden)
4. Clive James' "Fame in the Twentieth Century" and
5. "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Today, we went to a vide grenier* in La Sauvetat de Dropt and I added to the above list ...
An old French translation of T.E. Lawrence's "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
* the French equivalent of an English car boot sale or a collective Australian garage sale
That last one will, no doubt, take a little longer to read, but very satisfying I'm sure.
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