Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scott, who also has a home in Provence, hatched the idea for A Good Year with Mayle over dinner one night, the filmmaker told BBC ...

Sir Ridley Scott has praised the success and spirit of author Peter Mayle, who has died at the age of 78 after a short illness. The film director, Mayle’s friend and neighbour, said his writing had ...

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 ...

Peter Mayle, the British author whose midlife relocation to France inspired his bestselling A Year in Provence and other works set in his adopted country, died Thursday at age 78. Publisher Alfred A.

Every traveler can admit to loving a destination enough to daydream about living there — few actually move based on a vacation. English author Peter Mayle first shared the story of how he and wife ...

Peter Mayle, a writer and onetime advertising executive who transformed his fumbling adjustment to life in the south of France into the best-selling "A Year in Provence" and other books, sending ...

Peter Mayle is the ex-Brit advertising executive who moved to Provence and made packets of money publishing journals of his experiences. He is the most charming person to chat with over a glass of ...

Peter Mayle, the author of A Year In Provence and A Good Year — the latter the basis for Ridley Scott‘s 2006 film — has died. The writer who was best known for chronicling his life as a British expat ...

Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced that Mayle had died on 18 January after a brief illness in a hospital near his home in the south of France. His success came late in life and was the product of a ...

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 ...

Peter Mayle, the British author whose midlife relocation to France inspired his bestselling “A Year in Provence” and other works set in his adopted country, has died in a hospital near his home in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Mayle, the British author whose midlife relocation to France inspired his best-selling “A Year in Provence” and other works set in his adopted country, died Thursday at age 78.