Peter Mayle, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $23 (295p) ISBN 978-0-679-45511-0
Notably missing from this latest diet-wrecking literary canape is Mayle's (Anything Considered) fixation on the truffle. In another conspicuous break with form, Mayle opens the action in New York rather than his beloved Provence. But readers hungry...
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Peter Mayle. Knopf, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-451-49452-8
Fans of Mayle (who died in January) will be delighted by this final book from Provence’s most impassioned booster. The memoir takes the form of delightfully quaint anecdotes from the years since Mayle and his wife, Jennie, escaped office life in New
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Peter Mayle. Knopf, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-35390-8
From the engaging first sentence, bestseller Mayle’s fourth novel featuring American detective Sam Levitt (after 2014’s The Corsican Caper) delights—more because of the French local color than any hardcore mystery solving. Sam and insurance...
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Peter Mayle. Knopf, $23.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-307-96286-7
Readers who want to engage by proxy in the lives of Europe’s mega-wealthy will best appreciate this frothy bit of fun from bestseller Mayle, his third novel featuring Sam Levitt (after 2012’s The Marseille Caper). Billionaire Francis Reboul owns the
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Peter Mayle. Knopf, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-59419-8
Mayle (A Year in Provence) sends readers on a breezy excursion to southern France’s least appreciated city in this entertaining crime novel filled with amiable digressions into the history, cuisine, and local culture of Marseille. Los Angelino...
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Peter Mayle, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-09930-5
Mining the years of his career before his famous move to Southern France, Mayle ( A Year in Provence ) offers an amusing, perceptive and sometimes cynical chronicle of American and British advertising in the '60s and '70s. A former copywriter and...
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Peter Mayle, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-76268-3
Mayle's third fictional trek through the French countryside, involving an English expat and a secret formula for the cultivation of truffles, was a four-week PW bestseller. (Apr.)
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Peter Mayle, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-73604-2
British author Mayle shares his adventures in France's Midi in an enchanting book that stayed on PW 's hardcover bestseller list for 19 weeks. His new book, Acquired Tastes , will be published by Bantam in May. (June)
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Peter Mayle, Author Knopf Publishing Group $29.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-394-57230-7
The author describes his first 12 months in Provence, after he and his wife have abandoned England for an 18th-century farmhouse in the Luberon Mountains. Throwing themselves into the life of this rural region, they master the local customs, gain...
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Peter Mayle, Author . Knopf $25 (286p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4442-9
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...
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Peter Mayle, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44123-6
Again venturing into the wryly humorous thriller territory of Hotel Pastis, Mayle has produced another caper heavily larded with local color and gastronomic adventures. And again, as in his novels and his nonfiction evocations of Provence, truffles...
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Peter Mayle, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $23 (389p) ISBN 978-0-679-40229-9
As fans of A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence may have suspected, Mayle's skills as a writer translate well into fiction. His first novel is as adroit, funny and charming as his previous works, and again it is set in his favorite region of...
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Peter Mayle, Author Knopf/Everyman's Library $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-44124-3
After a four-year leave, Mayle is back in the region he described in his bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence--and the British author's fans will be pleased that he decided to return to his adopted homeland, for his writing is as...
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Peter Mayle, Author Bantam Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09027-7
On assignment for GQ (where these tonic pieces first appeared), Mayle sallied forth to sample the little luxuries of the richest, the best that life is reputed to offer. With unabashed gusto he praises good cigars, grand hotels, Parisian bistros,...
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Peter Mayle, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $23 (241p) ISBN 978-0-679-40253-4
After writing A Year in Provence , Mayle and his family have made themselves at home in the Midi, as these new tales reveal. The British author infuses his adventures with natural humor, whether the subject is larking with Provencal pals, an...
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Peter Mayle, Author . Knopf $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-307-26901-0
Mayle uncorks a winning wine caper in the tradition of To Catch a Thief
. When a hot-shot Hollywood lawyer's most treasured and expensive wines are stolen, his insurance company calls in Sam Levitt, a gourmand and lawyer-of-all-trades with a...
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Peter Mayle, Author . Knopf $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-40591-4
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....
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Peter Mayle, Author, Simon Jones, Read by , read by Simon Jones. Random $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-41885-3
In this latest book, part travelogue, part guide to cuisine, Mayle leaves his beloved Provence behind and sets out to experience gastronomic pleasures available at food festivals and celebrations throughout France. The always curious and friendly...
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Peter Mayle, Author, Edward Koren, Illustrator Alfred A Knopf Inc $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-44122-9
Both canine ``memoir'' and cautionary tale, this sprightly account of the further adventures of Boy, Mayle's real-life dog introduced in Toujours Provence, is a gem of its kind. As animated by Mayle, Boy is a clever chap given to literary allusions,
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Peter Mayle, Author, Edward Koren, Illustrator Vintage Books USA $14 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-76267-6
Mayle's novel purports to be a confessional autobiography-of the author's dog, Boy. (June)
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Peter Mayle, Author, Gerard Auzet, Author . Knopf $16.95 (91p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4474-0
This petit but useful compendium contains centuries-old Provençal lessons in bread making as relayed to Francophile foodie and memoirist Mayle (A Year in Provence
, etc.) by Auzet, an award-winning baker from Cavaillon, Provence. The...
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Peter Mayle, Author, Judith Clancy, Illustrator Vintage Books USA $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-73114-6
An account of the author's first frustrating but enlightening year in Provence opens with a memorable New Year's lunch and closes with an impromptu Christmas dinner. ``In nimble prose, Mayle . . . captures the humorous aspects of visits to markets,...
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Peter Mayle, Author, Jason Hawkes, Photographer Random House (NY) $35 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-43564-8
In a magnificent and captivating album, Mayle, author of bestsellers on Proven al life and manners (Toujours Provence), teams with British aerial photographer Hawkes to capture the quirks and flavor of Provence, France's lush Mediterranean south....
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