CAROL Drinkwater, the actress best-known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC’s All Creatures Great and Small, is now the bestselling author of a series of books about her life on an olive farm in Provence.

She will be at The Phoenix Theatre, Ross-on-Wye on Thursday, July 15 at 12 noon to talk about her new book, Return to the Olive Farm, which charts her foray into beekeeping and organic farming.

Tickets cost £3 from Rossiter Books (refundable against purchase of the book).