Peter Mayle Boeken

Een Engels echtpaar gaat wonen in de Provence en beschrijft van maand tot maand, een jaar lang, hun ontmoetingen met de inwoners van de streek met wie ze al direct kennis maken bij de inrichting van hun huis (tempo, afspraken, omgangsgewoonten en culinaire belangstelling). Ook hun ervaring met de mistral wordt beschreven. Heel goed weergegeven is de wijze waarop de mensen in de conversatie hun handen, vingers, ogen, ellebogen mee laten converseren. Een lichtvoetig, vlot geschreven verhaal, waarin tegelijkertijd aan enkele verschillen wordt herinnerd tussen de Engelse en de (Zuid-)Franse leefwijze.

Prachtige verhalen over Frankrijk van uiteenlopende auteurs als Simon Carmiggelt, Doris Lessing, Ischa Meijer, James Thurber, Inez van Dullemen, Peter Mayle en vele anderen.

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. 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.In more than 170 entries he writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin), as diverse as expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the Provençal character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the museum of the French Foreign Legion, the museum of the corkscrew, the origins of “La Marseillaise,” and a bawdy folklore character named Fanny.And, of course, he writes about food and vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. The wonderful accompanying artwork includes curiosities Mayle has gathered over the years — matchbooks, drawings, century-old ads, photos, tourist brochures, maps.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.

A guide to male and female anatomy, methods of birth control, and veneral disease.

A manual for teaching young children about the facts of life.

From vantage points as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, the caves at Chateauneuf-du-Pape and the Menerbes Dog Show, this book shows that life in Provence is not quiet and uneventful. All kinds of characters are depicted: estate agents, a gendarme, reporters from Vogue and the tourists.

In this charming guide to the pleasures of Provence, Mayle delivers a delightful meditation on the rich pleasures of the humble loaf. Includes precise instructions for making 14 kinds of bread. 25 drawings & 6 photos in text.

When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU… But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim’s wife, and is convinced that he knows her – even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.

Offers a frank and humorous look at male sexuality, the relationship between men and women, and problems that develop in an adult sex life