Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: advertising, business, funny, agency
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1994-12-15
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0312119119
ISBN-13: 9780312119119

Before his glorious retreat to Provence, delightfully chronicled in his best-sellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle made his career in advertising, beginning as a copywriter and finishing thirteen years later as a creative director ("I think I was also a vice president, " he writes "but I never had the cards printed"). Up the Agency is his caustic valentine to the culture of Madison Avenue, where the tribal customs and rituals are as wondrous to behold as the sights on any anthropological expedition. Treading fearlessly and wittily where no one without a customized BMW a

Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: life
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-03-14
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0679441220
ISBN-13: 9780679441229

The best-selling author of A Year in Provence chronicles the exploits of Boy, his clever canine companion, from the dog’s perspective, from his humble beginnings to joining the Mayle household to his adventures throughout France. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: year
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-06-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375705627
ISBN-13: 9780375705625

The writer with a claim to being the world’s foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence. 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 in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more

Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, cezanne, chasing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-04-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 067978120X
ISBN-13: 9780679781202

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, and wickedly delectable restaurants. There are stopovers in the Bahamas and England, and in New York, where that glossiest of magazines, Decorating Quarterly, reflects the cutting-edge trendiness of its editor, Camilla Jameson Porter. (Camilla has recently broken new ground in the world of

Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: caper, vintage
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0307269019
ISBN-13: 9780307269010

Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It’s also a lot of fun.The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist.Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, cultivated crime expert, and wi

Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: provence, novel, pastis, hotel
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 1993-09-28
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0679402292
ISBN-13: 9780679402299

Having delighted millions of Americans with A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle treats us to a wonderfully entertaining novel of escape, romance and adventure. played in the landscape he has made so irresistible.Simon Shaw, a forty-two-year-old advertising tycoon, worn down by insatiable clients and a rapacious ex-wife, wants to get away from it all. On impulse he drives to the south of France. When an accident leaves him stranded in a small village in the Luberon, an enchanting Frenchwoman, who is between husbands, comes to his rescue and soon lures him into buying the local

Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Keywords: come
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0818402539
ISBN-13: 9780818402531

Covers the basic facts from love-making, orgasm, conception and growth inside the womb, through to the actual birth day. This book names all the names and shows all the important parts of the body.