home | search | authors | fiction | non-fiction | poetry | reviewers | feedback | back numbers | gallery

Browse the search buttons above to find something good to read. There are 3,264 reviews to choose from

Books by Peter Mayle

Confessions of a French Baker - Breadmaking secrets, tips and recipes
This is a delightful little book resulting from the author's visits to his local baker's shop in Cavaillon (France) and from conversations about the evolution of the family business with the fourth generation baker, Monsieur Auzet. He describes with illustrations different types of French bread and, step by step, how they are made. It should be an excellent stocking-filler for any Francophile cookery enthusiast this Christmas.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 37 December 2006)

Encore Provence
I always start to read his books with a jaundiced eye, but have to recognise and empathise with some things he describes, such as the dramatics of a southern storm. I still think he writes like a tourist trying to write a guidebook, but if you like olive trees, truffles, and Provence, you will probably have to read it, just like me.
(Sandra Lee - bwl 4 July 2000)