Black Olive, Sun-Dried Tomato and Garlic Bread

I realize that you can buy this type of flavoured bread in many shops, but none is as good as the bread you make yourself. It matters very much to use the best black olives – not those awful ones uniformly pitted and packed in bitter brine, but the juicy olives with their stones in, packed in herbs and the minimum of the best brine. The garlic amount may sound rather lavish, but bread seems to absorb the flavour of garlic, and I love a pronounced garlic taste. This bread is so good on its o