Peter Mayle, an Englishman who started a writing career in his 30s with sex-education books for children before making a spectacularly successful switch to the travel memoir genre with “A Year in ...

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include Peter Mayle's final love letter to Provence, and two new titles that celebrate "To Kill a Mockingbird." "My Twenty-Five ...

Most obituaries of Peter Mayle emphasized his book, A Year in Provence. But Mayle, who died last week at age 78, was also a figure in the ad agency world. He started as a junior copywriter and ...

Every traveler can admit to loving a destination enough to daydream about living there — few actually move based on a vacation. English author Peter Mayle first shared the story of how he and wife ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Mayle (born 14 June 1939 in Brighton) was a British author famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. He spent fifteen years in the ...

Sir Ridley Scott said the 78-year-old’s writing captured the Anglo-French competitive spirit ‘brilliantly’. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with our free Daily newsletter. Did you ...

France has been good to Peter Mayle. With the enormous success 14 years ago of A Year in Provence, about the adventures of Mayle and his wife after they moved from England to restore an 18th century ...

An animated adaptation of Peter Mayle's bestseller, talking about and explaining the strange and often surprising things that can happen to a young person during puberty.

Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their ...