His works have been translated into sixteen languages. The Darling Buds of May (1958), the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), Oh! To Be in England (1963) and A Little of What You Fancy (1970). The filming locations for The Larkins have been revealed, with a quaint town in Kent among the sights used to shoot the Darling Buds of May remake. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. Bates was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire.
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