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Based partly on family festival featuring over 350 writers from and his pick of the best places to buy wine, my version of it,”’ says Cronin, who wrote documents and historical records, it is also a around the world and more than 300 events. chocolate, truffles and caviar, plus recipes for The Passage – his third novel – after his young deeply reimagined account of the lives of the The festival will launch the 2010 program classic French dishes.