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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

In a tradition at least as old as the Book of Genesis, readers have been drawn to stories about paradise that take complicated turns. That explains much of the appeal behind “A Year in Provence,” ...