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	Peter Mayle's Provence
		Mayle's unbounded curiosity, his well-honed powers of observation, and his wry sense of humor resonate in his tales and in his detailed portraits of the people he encounters--from the plumber with a penchant for philosophizing to the not-always-welcome guests who arrive from colder climes every summer.
		But Mayle's real talent is that he makes it possible to enjoy the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of this special corner of the world without leaving the comfort of one's own reading chair.
		Mayle suggests that the leisurely pace of life, the sunshine, and the abundance of the south encourage the general good humor and cheerfulness of the Provenceaux [p.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/provence (1486 words)

	Peter Mayle on Provence & the Midi
		Peter Mayle was born in England in 1939.
		In his late 40's Peter Mayle moved with his third wifeto Provence in the south of France, where theyrenovated an old farmhouse.
		Peter Mayle's success with the Provence books spawneda new genre in travel writing - books by Englishmenwho leave the cold wet island, set up house insunnier climes and then write about the curious habitsof the locals.
	www.toujours-provence.com /peter-mayle-provence.html (811 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Typical Mayle - Peter Mayle
		Not only is Mayle partially responsible for that, but he appeared on a recent whistle stop promotional trip to Dublin, looking more tanned, fit and relaxed than any writer has a right to be.
		Mayle's new book, 'Bon Appétit: Travels through France with knife, fork and corkscrew' is essentially a gourmand's guidebook to the epicurean highlights of France, written in the frequently imitated but rarely bettered Mayle style.
		Mayle's tangible appreciation for food - and France - stems from his first discovery of "real food" as a young trainee on a business trip to Paris, what he refers to as "the loss of my gastronomic virginity".
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/1004/maylep.html (667 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Off the Page: Peter Mayle
		Peter Mayle's best-selling book, A Year in Provence, was part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter.
		Peter Mayle is calling in from Provence to answer our questions.
		Peter Mayle: For those who haven't read the book, Boy is the hero of A Dog's Life, and he essentially wrote it, with a little help on the punctation from me. Alas, he's gone these past few years.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A4225-2004May31?language=printer (1810 words)

	Literal Mind. French Lessons, Peter Mayle
		PETER MAYLE is back in France, eating and drinking in the aptly titled "French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew." It's a continuation of his travel essays set in Provence as the official high-priest of the good life.
		Mayle's deepest concerns are along the lines of whether to spit or not when sampling dozens of wines in Burgundy.
		Mayle's been at his best recently when writing wonderfully light novels, the adult's beach-book, like "Chasing Cezanne." But his newest doesn't veer from the groove he's carved for himself.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=108 (298 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog
		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.
		Peter Mayle sets his latest irresistible tale in the thyme- and lavender-scented south of France.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=19567 (1041 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Year in Provence: Books: Peter Mayle,Judith Clancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only image doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious 200-year-old farmhouse in the Luberon and began a new life.
		It's obvious that Peter Mayle is not short of a few pounds as he seems able to afford all rennovations to his house (any-one wishing to read an account of pennyless people moving to a foreign country should read 'Extra Virgin' by Annie Hawes) but this is not a DIY book either.
		Peter Mayle has an effortless way to make his writing feel like a long letter to a friend.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Year-Provence-Peter-Mayle/dp/0140296034 (980 words)

	Toujours Peter Mayle - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(Peter Mayle wrote A Year in Provence from Ménerbes and now lives near Lourmarin.) Tennessee-based aficionados Kathy and Charley Wood lead small group tours to many places mentioned in his books ($2,500 per person for seven days; luberonexperience.com; 865-693-3036).
		A Year in Provence, Mayle's best-selling 1989 memoir about renovating a 200-year-old farmhouse in southeastern France's Luberon region of Provence, made the former advertising executive so synonymous with the area that starry-eyed acolytes showed up, unannounced and uninvited, at his front door (and, in one memorable instance, inside his sitting room).
		Mayle lent a bit of weight to that argument when he and his wife fled their Ménerbes farmhouse to take up temporary residence in New York's Hamptons.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/2006-11-02-provence_x.htm (1401 words)

	BookClubs.ca \| Books \| Encore Provence by Peter Mayle
		In his most delightful foray into the wonders of Provenand#231al life, Peter Mayle returns to France and puts behind him cholesterol worries, shopping by phone, California wines, and other concerns that plagued him after too much time away.
		In Encore Provence, Mayle gives us a glimpse into the secrets of the truffle trade, a parfumerie lesson on the delicacies of scent, an exploration of the genetic effects of 2,000 years of foie gras, and a small-town murder mystery that reads like the best fiction.
		Peter Mayle spent fifteen years in the advertising business, first as a copywriter and then as a reluctant executive, before escaping Madison Avenue in 1975 to write educational books for children.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679762690 (322 words)

	Peter Mayle: Encore Provence
		Mayle is an astute, droll observer, from his takes on olive oil, the perfect corkscrew, foie gras, to how to be a nose for a perfumery.
		To his credit, Mayle doesn’t bother overanalyzing the Provencal mentality or gushing simply because something is French and therefore godly.
		All the same, I can’t help but get the impression that this book is specifically geared to those Americans whose love of anything French is only matched by their total ineptitude in speaking the language or following the "When in Rome" golden rule of travel.
	www.plume-noire.com /culture/books/provence.html (391 words)

	Amazon.com: A Year in Provence: Books: Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mayle and his wife arrive in Provence with full expectations of living la dolce vita and end up embroiled in a series of catastrophes that require them to reshape their entire characters and perform some serious attitude-adjusting.
		Mayle's (and his wife's) adaptation to the Provencal lifestyle is sometimes painful, other times poignant and telling, but almost always extremely funny.
		Mayle's decsriptions of his gastronomical forays are rendered so vividly that I have started combing the supermarket here in Pinehurst for ingredients (pale imitations for the most part, sadly).
	www.amazon.com /Year-Provence-Peter-Mayle/dp/0679731148 (1928 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| A YEAR IN PROVENCE by Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight.
		From coping in January with the first mistral, which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc with the pipes, to dealing as the months go by with the disarming promises and procrastination of the local masons and plumbers, Peter Mayle delights us with his strategies for survival.
		In this often hilarious, seductive book Peter Mayle manages to transport us info all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life and lets us live vicariously in a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/year_in_provence.asp (534 words)

	CONNECT - eBooks - Peter Mayle
		Peter Mayle was born in 1939 in England.
		A prolific writer and journalist, Mayle became famous in 1990 with his best selling book "A Year in Provence," which chronicles his adventures buying and restoring an old farmhouse in the south of France.
		Mayle published a successful sequel in 1991, "Toujours Provence." Mayle's descriptions of his adventures in France are exuberant and entertaining.
	ebooks.connect.com /author/427/20/42720.html (309 words)

	Peter Mayle News
		Peter Mayle was one of the first and has long been one of the most successful of what we might call lifestyle entrepreneurs.
		Peter Mayle has written, by most counts, 12 books about life in Provence, France, beginning with "A Year in Provence," the 1989 bestseller.
		The movie, which is based of a novel by Peter Mayle, is a about a man who finds there is more in life than money.
	www.topix.net /who/peter-mayle (630 words)

	Peter Mayle's Provence -- 1559272465 (Audio Renaissance.com)
		When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world.
		Funny, touching, endearing -- Peter Mayle's Provence proves the adage that while you may not be able to escape from it all, you sure can have fun trying.
		Peter Mayle spent fifteen years in the advertising business before escaping Madison Avenue in 1975 to write an extensive series of books centered around life in his beloved Provence.
	www.audiorenaissance.com /product/product.aspx?email=yes&isbn=1559272465 (365 words)

	Encore Provence: An Interview with Peter Mayle
		Readers are left dreamy and hungry after poring over Mayle's juicy descriptions of French food and the unhurried pace of French life in the countryside.
		Mayle hands them a copy of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and entices them into a hammock.
		But, as it happens, his books became so popular that Peter became a local celebrity in the region, and some of that relaxation he and his wife sought out was lost.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/1999/19991030/interview.shtml (300 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Good Year: Books: Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mayle's breezy, uncomplicated fifth novel (Chasing Cezanne, etc.) and ninth book follows 30-something Max Skinner from a sabotaged financial career in London to his adoption of the Provençal lifestyle on an inherited vineyard in France.
		The brief bio on Peter Mayle's latest literary soufflé says he "eats, drinks, writes, and lives in Provence." As the emphasis indicates, the taste buds play a starring role in this novel.
		Mayle has enjoyed, at least in my small opinion, a distinct advantage over Frances Mayes and her "Under the Tuscan Sun" series.
	www.amazon.ca /Good-Year-Peter-Mayle/dp/0375405917 (1597 words)

	Author Peter Mayle
		Peter Mayle in conversation with PTEE director Terrance Gelenter
		As readily identified with Provence as salade niçoise, pan bagnat and ice-cold Cotes de Provence rosé, Peter Mayle is a one man-publishing industry.
		Peter Mayle rises from his lobby armchair at San Francisco's Four Seasons Hotel his face bronzed as befits a man who spends lots of time under the provençal sun.
	www.paris-expat.com /interviews/07-04_mayle.html (1958 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: A Good Year, by Peter Mayle, Paperback
		Mayle's breezy, uncomplicated fifth novel (Chasing Cezanne, etc.) and ninth book follows 30-something Max Skinner from a sabotaged financial career in London to his adoption of the Proven al lifestyle on an inherited vineyard in France.
		Though his plot is predictable, Mayle juggles complications, chicanery, and romance with entertaining and informative tidbits about wine-and his Provence never fails to charm.
		I'm a fan of Peter Mayle's, and over the years two things impress me. He is the dean of Mediterranean travel writers, and his quality is very consistent.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780307277756&itm=1 (1242 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Good Year: Books: Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Mayle's delightful novel will enchant the audiences who bought A YEAR IN PROVENCE and TOUJOURS PROVENCE in their millions.
		I think it's going to be incredibly difficult for Mayle to better Hotel Pastis, but this is definitely a book along similar lines.
		The tale is primed, as usual, with the twists and turns we've come to expect from Mayle, uncovering criminal activity that somehow bumbles into them, and the ensuing chase that always proves to be amusing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Good-Year-Peter-Mayle/dp/0316724505 (911 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay — French Lessons (ISBN: 0375418857,9780375418853), Book and Peter Mayle items on eBay.com. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mayle's ability to get the locals talking, his sense of humor, and his love for a good meal propel him around the French countryside to a variety of food festivals.
		Peter Mayle has done a fabulous job of writing a humorous account of not only food in France, but also the French themselves.
		Mayle did a fine job of delivering both the complexity and simplicity that each dish he detailed, deserved.
	product.ebay.com /French-Lessons_ISBN_0375418857_W0QQfvcsZ1390QQsoprZ1830482 (485 words)

	MPR Books - "French Lessons" by Peter Mayle
		Mayle's latest book centers on food and opens with his first trip to France.
		Peter Mayle has appeared several times on MPR's The Savvy Traveler.
		Mayle's first book, A Year in Provence, told the story of how he left England to live in a 200-year-old French farmhouse and his struggles to restore it.
	www.mpr.org /www/books/titles/mayle_frenchlessons.shtml (370 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| ENCORE PROVENCE by Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For a time, Francophile extraordinaire Peter Mayle left the South of France and the pleasures and the pastimes he has chronicled to international renown.
		In Encore Provence, Mayle presents his most appealing tribute to date on the joys of Gallic life.
		Here is a glimpse into the secrets of the truffle trade, a parfumerie lesson on the delicacies of scent, an exploration of the genetic effects of 2,000 years of foie gras, and a small-town murder mystery that reads like the best fiction.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/encore_provence.asp (553 words)

	Doug's Library -- Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mayle is like a very droll Dave Barry, and he paints incredible images (and hilarious charicatures) with words.
		Mayle's appeal truly cuts across genres, because there is something for everyone.
		Again, Mayle writes very humorously, but now that he is a bit more constrained in what he writes about, I think his style is slightly cramped.
	personal.tcu.edu /~dingram/books/pmayle.html (298 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bio: Peter Mayle lives with his wife and their two dogs in the South of France.
		The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be.
		From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine--and the business of wine--and set in, bien sûr, Provence.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/PeterMayleeBooks.htm (248 words)

	Restaurant Report - Wine - Interview with Peter Mayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Then, when everyone and his uncle suddenly appears on your doorstep, you pack your bags and move on, leaving your unwanted visitors to trample all over the once pristine French countryside.
		This is precisely what happened to Peter Mayle whose Provence books captured the imagination of millions of foodies and winers around the globe.
		PS: In The Year in Provence, you say that what makes life worth living is the happy shock of discovering that you have managed to give a few hours of entertainment to people you have never met.
	www.restaurantreport.com /Departments/w_petermayle.html (1545 words)

	Powell's Books - Provence A-Z by Peter Mayle
		It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun.
		And, of course, he writes about food and drink: vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion.
		Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle’s ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1400044421 (235 words)

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