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A Good Year by Peter Mayle
Category: Fiction
A novel of wine, women and sun with a plot that offers more twists than a corkscrew. Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's ...Show more
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Category: Travel
Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of "A Year In Provence". 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 ca ...Show more
A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins
Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w ...Show more
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Peter Mayle, francophile phenomenon and author of "A Year in Provence," brings another delightful (and delicious) account of the good life, this time exploring the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France. The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Mayle shows us just h ...Show more
How to Be a Pregnant Father by Peter Mayle
Category: Humour
Bestselling author Peter Mayle shows expectant fathers everything they need to know about one of life's most exciting times. Included is advice that every father needs to know about the impending birth of his child, such as: tactics for the bathroom and the breakfast table, morning sickness, cravings, p ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
Category: Travel
The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all-new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France: lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, ...Show more
The Corsican Caper by Peter Mayle
Category: Fiction
When billionaire Francis Reboul finds himself on the wrong side of a Russian tycoon, he s fortunate to have vacationing friends Sam Levitt and Elena Morales on hand to help him out. Now it s up to Sam who s saved Reboul s neck before to negotiate with an underworld of mercenaries, hit men, and Mafioso, ...Show more
The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle
Category: Fiction
A novel filled with culinary delights. The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. After inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself t ...Show more
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Departures
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know--of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sump ...Show more
What's Happening to Me? by Peter Mayle
Category: Parenting
For more than twenty years, What's Happening to Me? has helped parents explain puberty to their children who are experiencing "growing pains".More than one million children and young adults have enjoyed the humor and honesty in this book, while learning what really happens to their bodies as they mature ...Show more
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Category: Parenting | Series: Dolly Fiction
This bestselling classic explains the facts of life to young children in an age-appropriate and straightforward manner, accompanied by lively illustrations.