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A third helping of French country life from the writer of the "A Year In Provence" and "Toujours Provence", who goes in search of the finest bouillabaisse, investigates the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher and goes to a school for noses.

Ein Oligarch namens Oleg Vronsky ist in der Bucht von Marseille mit seiner Luxusjacht vor Anker gegangen und observiert das Palais von Reboul. Immer dreister werden seine Versuche, den Franzosen zum Verkauf des historischen Gebäudes zu bewegen, er schaltet sogar die korsische Mafia ein. Doch Rebouls Freund, der Anwalt Sam Levitt, heckt einen Gegenplan aus, der es in sich hat ... Farbig und charmant entführt Peter Mayle uns in ein Marseille und...

When a Riviera socialite's diamonds are stolen-the latest in a string of seemingly unconnected but increasingly audacious jewelry heists across France-Peter Mayle's bon vivant and master sleuth, Sam Levitt, and his partner, Elena Morales, are soon on the case. In these "perfect crimes, " Sam sees the hand of a master criminal, but as he and Elena dig deeper, they begin to realize just how dangerous it may be to pursue the truth. In the midst o...

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Quando mi alzai e uscii nel cortile il cielo delle sette del mattino era di un blu senza fine, il colore di un pacchetto di Gauloises. Le pietre del lastricato erano tiepide sotto i miei piedi nudi e le nostre lucertole residenti avevano già assunto la posizione del bagno di sole, appiattite e immobili contro il muro di casa. Soltanto svegliarsi con un mattino così era un regalo di compleanno sufficiente. Godersi le prime ore di una calda gior...

By their stomachs ye shall know them. From the thigh-tasters of Vitel to the truffle mass of St Antoine, the French are enticingly captured by the master.

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Peter Mayle offers us another funny and beautiful book about life in Provence. Here is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all, " you can surely have the best of times trying.

National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A...

Internationally bestselling author of A Year in Provence, Mayle comes out with a new bestseller about the true pleasure of fine living.

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.Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins are the bestselling team also responsible for Where Did I Come From?

Describes the reproductive process from intercourse to birth.

A novel of wine, women and sun with a plot that offers more twists than a corkscrew. This is a captivating new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE and BON APPETIT!

A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle's vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his ...

The author of several books set in Provence, including the now-classic travel tome "A Year in Provence" and a more recent novel, "A Good Year, " Mayle has once again trapped the sunshine, the wind, and the very lavender-laden air of the southeastern French countryside.