A glorious stroll today through little-known parts of the Vezere valley, through fields of wild garlic and amazing rock formations with Paul of walkingdordogne.com (his photos are terrific).

He and his parents run a great B&B called Le Ferme de Tayac. So tonight I'm making an omelette with goose eggs and wild garlic leaves, taken from the finest array of the stuff I've ever seen.

Please note that the Bruno novel The Dying Season  is the title chosen by the UK publishers for the novel published in the USA and Canada as The Patriarch.

I fear this has caused some confusion for readers and I regret this greatly. This was a decision by the publishers and not by me - my title all along was The Patriarch.

And now I learn that the UK publishers are to re-issue the first book in the series, originally Bruno, Chief of Police, under the new title Death in the Dordogne.

Again, this is a decision of the publishers, not the author, and I am very sorry for any confusion this might cause.

I was recently interviewed by France Today on the Bruno series and life in Perigord. I have put an extract below, with a link to the full interview at the end.

JH: You and your wife divide your time between Washington D.C., and a village in the Périgord region. How and when did you come to have a home in the Dordogne? And what do you love most about this part of France?
MW: We had some good French friends who bought a house in the region in the 1980s and we would regularly go to stay with them until my wife decided we should get a place of our own – another of her brilliant decisions. The Périgord has always enchanted me with its combination of food and wine, the people and the climate, the look of the buildings, the shape of the landscape and the feel of history. It lies at the heart of so many things. All our history is there, the 17,000-year old cave paintings of Lascaux and the medieval castles and the legends of the chevalier-troubadours like Bertrand de Borne, to the Resistance dramas of World War Two. I just had to write about it. It seemed when I first came to the Périgord – and still seems today – a beguiling mixture of the deeply familiar and the exotic.

To read the interview in full, click here.

I spent the morning tasting candidates for the forthcoming 'Cuvee Bruno' wine with the two Juliens, the winemaker and the vineyard owner, at the Julien de Savignac vineyard near Rouffignac in the Bergerac. 

I was recently interviewed about the latest Bruno - The Patriarch or The Dying Season, depending on your location - by the Speaking of Mysteries podcast. If you're interested, you can listen to it by clicking here.

I have just learned that Handelsblad, Germany's leading financial newspaper, has short-listed my forthcoming novel of the future, Made in Germany, 2064, for its Business Book of the Year prize - along with Jo Stieglitz, Henry Kissinger, Elon Musk, and the brilliant Second Machine Age by Brynjolfsson and McAfee. This is the first time a novel has been considered for the prize.

The novel, to be published at the end of September, was inspired by the A T Kearney project 'Deutschland 2064.' I took part in the 18-month project as a long-standing director of A T Kearney's internal think tank, but was inspired as a novelist to present the research in literary form. Top German politicians, officials, business leaders and and academics were also closely involved in the study.