Peter Mayle: 37 books

**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...

For more than twenty years, Where Did I Come From? has helped parents explain the facts of life to their curious children. Millions of children have enjoyed the humor and honesty in this book, while learning how babies are really made. Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins are also the bestselling team responsible for What's Happening to Me? a guide to puberty.

With an updated foreword by Peter Mayle, Acquired Tastes (formerly Expensive Habits), originally published in 1993, is a celebration of life's extravagances. Exploring an aspect of human nature that, although lying dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune...

Bon vivant and expert sleuth Sam Levitt and his partner in love and intrigue, Elena Morales, return in the latest installment of the delightfully sun-splashed Provençal Caper series. When a Riviera socialite’s diamonds are stolen—the latest in a string of seemingly unconnected but ever-more-audacious...

Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle's new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors,...

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...

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...

Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins combine their talents to bring you this wonderful children’s storybook, first released in 1987. In The Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy you met the little man who lives in the fridge. Now Footprints in the Butter brings you further adventures of this delightful character and his many colorful friends!

Bestselling author Peter Mayle and acclaimed children’s book illustrator Arthur Robins combine their talents in this delightful children’s storybook. Once you’ve met Chilly Billy and heard of his adventures inside the refrigerator, you’ll never open the fridge door in quite the same way again!...

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...

For more than twenty years, Where Did I Come From? has helped parents explain the facts of life to their curious children. Millions of children have enjoyed the humor and honesty in this book, while learning how babies are really made. This book has been adapted for African American families. Peter...

Spannung und mediterrane Lebenslust pur – der neue Bestseller von Peter Mayle Sam Levitt, ein Schlitzohr mit ausgeprägten Hang zum leichten Leben hart an der Grenze der Legalität, möchte nur noch sein wiedergefundenes Liebesglück mit der umwerfend attraktiven Elena genießen. Da erhält...

Tutto comincia con un taccuino, 182 fogli a quadretti più alcuni sparsi, dove una calligrafia un po’ infantile, da maestra, ha annotato le ricette del repertorio di famiglia. Mamma le ha raccolte da parenti e amiche, alcune le ha copiate dal Talismano della felicità: in gran parte però arrivano...

Peter Mayle hat sich seinen großen Traum erfüllt und ist in die Provence gezogen. Doch das erste Jahr ist gar nicht einfach, und immer wieder kommt es zu Missverständnissen – nicht nur, weil man die Sprache dort einfach nicht versteht, sondern auch, weil die Lebensweise der Franzosen so merkwürdig anders als die der Briten ist.