Blur star Alex James writing Peter Mayle-type second autobiography about farming

Blur star Alex James is writing a Year In Provence-style memoir about his conversion to rural life, he revealed today. The bass player, who is now a successful cheese producer after moving into an Oxfordshire farm, has already put fingers to keyboard with a book about his wild years in the band. The musician-turned-farmer, 41, has likened his new book to Peter Mayle's bestseller, which was adapted for TV in a series starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan. "I'm trying very hard to write a book - I...

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