A Year in Provence
Author: Peter Mayle
The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple enjoying the fruits of French rural living – an irresistible feast of humour and heart.Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in th….Read More
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Encore Provence
The third spellbinding volume in the series begun by A Year in Provence, ENCORE PROVENCE continues the account of an English couple's life abroad. Among other curiosities, explore a school… Continue Reading Posted in: France Provence, Homes And Haunts, Social Life And Customs
Toujours Provence
A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A YEAR IN PROVENCE. Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads… Continue Reading Posted in: Description And Travel, Manners And Customs, Social Life And Customs
A Good Year
From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine-and set in, bien sur, Provence.Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire-and… Continue Reading Posted in: British, Fiction, Social Life And Customs
Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance,… Continue Reading Posted in: Country Life, Fiction
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage… Continue Reading Posted in: Cooking, Italian, Italy Spoleto Region, Manners And Customs
A Dog’s Life
Boy, an uncannily shaggy canine of unknown origins, and now undisputed master of the Mayle household, recounts his event-filled life in Provence in this unique, rollicking memoir.,,A pure-bred paranoid labouring… Continue Reading Posted in: Animals, Fiction, Humor
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
From Peter Mayle, a joyous exploration and celebration of the infinite gastronomic pleasures of France. Ranging far from his adopted Provence, Mayle now travels to every corner of the country,… Continue Reading Posted in: Food & Wine, French Cooking, Gastronomy, General Cuba Travel Guides, Manners And Customs
Under The Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - opens the door on a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the… Continue Reading Posted in: Description And Travel And Travels, Homes, Social Life And Customs, Travel Writing, Tuscany Travel
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