Peter Mayle, who wrote the best-selling novel “A Year In Provence”, has died at the age of 78, his publishers announced. Following a short illness, the British author died on Thursday in a hospital ...

But I live in a very rural place with medieval perched villages, an hour north of Marseille. Peter Mayle, who wrote A Year in ...

Thirty-five years ago, “A Year in Provence” helped spark a tourism boom in the Luberon region of southern France. In fact, the book was so popular (reported worldwide sales of more than 6 million, ...

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 ...

January, 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.