Peter Mayle Books in Order

This illustrated guide answers the awkward questions that come with puberty. In a plainspoken, reassuring tone, it explains the physical and emotional changes of adolescence without talking down to young readers.

A gentle, child-friendly book about death, grief, and the questions children often ask when someone dies. Mayle approaches a difficult subject with honesty, calm reassurance, and a tone meant to open conversation.

Mayle's famous illustrated sex education book explains conception, pregnancy, and birth in clear, direct language. It is designed to help children and adults talk about reproduction without embarrassment or fuss.

A frank, illustrated guide to a first sexual experience, aimed at easing nerves and clearing up myths. Mayle focuses on expectations, feelings, and common mistakes with his usual mix of candor and humor.

A comic survival guide for first-time fathers as pregnancy turns everyday life upside down. Mayle mixes practical reassurance with jokes about anxiety, bafflement, and the long wait for parenthood to begin.

A darkly funny handbook for shell-shocked new parents facing sleepless nights and a demanding baby. Mayle treats early parenthood like a crash course in survival, with cartoons and mock military calm.

This short family guide helps children understand what divorce is and why it happens. With sympathy and straightforward advice, it addresses fear, confusion, and the feeling that a family is splitting apart.

A humorous keepsake book for recording a baby's milestones, memories, and photographs. It turns the first years of family life into a playful scrapbook rather than a straight narrative.

Children meet Chilly Billy, the little man who lives inside the fridge and turns ordinary kitchen life into adventure. It is a playful picture book full of household comedy and imaginative detail.

A witty, illustrated introduction to extinct animals and the mystery of disappearing species. Dodos, great auks, and other lost creatures are presented in a way that is curious, sad, and accessible to younger readers.

Mayle tackles contraception in the same direct, lightly comic style that made his earlier health books so popular. It walks readers through birth control choices and basic sexual facts without panic or jargon.

An illustrated guide to birth control that explains how pregnancy happens and how to prevent it. Mayle keeps the tone clear, practical, and easy to follow for readers with awkward questions.

A child-focused guide to the baffling behavior of adults and the problems kids are expected to live with. Mayle offers practical reassurance with a humorous eye for family life and unfair rules.

Part pregnancy diary and part comic gift book, this follows the countdown to a new baby with nervous humor. Mayle captures the excitement, discomfort, and small absurdities of waiting for birth.

A witty insider's look at ten years of Heineken advertising. Mayle turns campaigns, agency life, and the strange business of selling beer into a running story about creativity, clients, and commercial madness.

This book introduces Wicked Willie, a cartoon penis with opinions, attitude, and a life of his own. The jokes come from the running battle between male vanity and the unruly impulses Willie represents.

A playful illustrated take on honeymoons, newlywed expectations, and romantic travel. Mayle treats the great post-wedding escape as a mixture of fantasy, logistics, and comic reality.

Wicked Willie turns astrologer in this cheeky little spin-off, pairing star signs with sex jokes and romantic folly. It is a fast, visual book of adult humor built around the series' favorite troublemaker.

A comic guide to naming dogs, from pedigrees to mongrels. Mayle and Arthur Robins have fun with breeds, personalities, and the human urge to saddle every pet with exactly the wrong name.

A beginner's guide to dreams, nightmares, and the strange things that happen while we sleep. Written for children, it explains scary nighttime feelings in a calm, readable, and lightly funny way.

Wicked Willie offers a rude, cartoonish view of romance, attraction, and the mysteries of women. The book is pure adult gag humor, fast, cheeky, and built around bad judgment and male panic.

This companion volume flips the joke toward men, exposing vanity, swagger, and sexual confusion. Willie narrates the whole mess with the same shameless confidence that drives the rest of the series.

Chilly Billy returns for more small adventures inside the fridge, where everyday food and kitchen routines become a whole secret world. It keeps the gentle absurdity and charm of the first book going.

Wicked Willie takes on world history and claims credit for humanity's worst ideas. It is a bawdy little book of cartoons and mock lessons that turns civilization itself into a long dirty joke.

A revised, child-friendly guide to divorce that focuses on the emotional questions children are likely to ask. Mayle explains separation, blame, and changing family life with sympathy and plain language.

Another quick-hit Wicked Willie collection, this one sending the series' shameless antihero into fresh adult mischief. Travel, temptation, and male ego all become targets for short, visual gags.

Peter Mayle recounts the first year he and his wife spend in a farmhouse in the Lubéron. Renovations, mistral winds, village characters, and unforgettable meals turn a dream move to Provence into a funny, affectionate memoir.

Presented as an advice book, this Wicked Willie entry answers intimate questions with complete lack of decorum. It keeps the series' blend of cartoon silliness, mock expertise, and adult innuendo.

A tongue-in-cheek alternative dog show celebrates scruffy, odd, and gloriously unpolished dogs. Mayle and Arthur Robins poke fun at pedigree seriousness while clearly having a wonderful time with canine chaos.

Written with Raffaella Fletcher, this is a stark true story of a young woman's descent into drug addiction and the long struggle to break free. It is one of Mayle's most serious books.

A novelty spin on the Wicked Willie books, this pop-up comic retells Willie's misadventures through interactive gags and stand-up scenes. It is brief, visual, and unapologetically silly.

A collection of essays about expensive pleasures, from handmade clothes and cigars to truffles and private indulgences. Mayle writes about luxury with curiosity, irony, and a taste for the ridiculous.

This essay collection explores the strange attractions of money, status, and cultivated indulgence. Mayle looks at the high-end habits of the well-heeled with amusement rather than reverence.

Mayle returns to village life in Provence with more meals, neighbors, tourists, and minor chaos. It is a warm sequel to *A Year in Provence*, full of local characters and affectionate observation.

Wicked Willie turns relationship guru in a mock handbook about pickup techniques, seduction, and bedroom bravado. It is broad adult cartoon humor, more interested in male foolishness than real advice.

Simon Shaw, a weary English ad man, flees London to turn an abandoned police station in the Lubéron into a hotel. Romance, local politics, and a nearby bank robbery complicate his dream of escape.

Mayle teams up with aerial photographer Jason Hawkes for a panoramic portrait of Provence. The result is part travel book, part visual celebration of the region's villages, vineyards, and dramatic landscape.

An alphabetical tour of Provence covering food, customs, words, habits, and local pleasures. It reads less like a dictionary than a personal handbook from someone who knows the region inside out.

A photographic and written journey over Provence, pairing sweeping aerial views with Mayle's amused, affectionate commentary. It captures the region's beauty from a striking and unusual angle.

Told as the autobiography of Boy, a stray dog who ends up in Provence, this is Mayle at his most playful. Boy observes human habits, friendships, and comforts with dry wit and canine common sense.

A broke English expat in Provence answers an odd job ad and is soon impersonating a mysterious millionaire in Monaco. Fine dining, criminal complications, and truffle intrigue follow close behind.

Photographer Andre Kelly spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck and stumbles into an art-world scam. The chase winds through the south of France with forgery, money, and good food in tow.

After time away, Mayle slips back into Provence and finds new pleasures waiting, from truffles and perfume to small-town mysteries. It is another relaxed, observant memoir about why the region keeps pulling him back.

A food-driven tour of France, this book follows Mayle through snail fairs, truffle masses, pungent cheeses, and serious debates about omelets. It is travel writing for readers who like to arrive hungry.

After losing his London finance job, Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence and heads south for a fresh start. The wine is poor, the claims to the estate are messy, and France proves hard to resist.

Written with baker Gérard Auzet, this book combines bakery history, breadmaking know-how, and recipes from Provence. Mayle supplies the story and atmosphere while Auzet brings the craft to the kitchen table.

A spectacular theft of rare wine sends former lawyer and connoisseur Sam Levitt from Los Angeles to Bordeaux and Provence. The mystery is light on grit and rich in food, scenery, and vinous temptation.

Mayle returns to his advertising roots with a funny, skeptical look at agencies, clients, trends, and professional nonsense. It is part memoir, part industry send-up, and full of lived-in detail.

Sam Levitt and Elena Morales head to Marseille for Francis Reboul, only to land in a dangerous property battle along the waterfront. Real estate, local power, and bouillabaisse all share the stage.

Simon Shaw abandons English corporate life and heads to Provence to create a small hotel in an old police station. His reinvention quickly runs into romance, local trouble, and a few less-than-helpful neighbors.

Adapted from *Provence A-Z*, this short guide distills Mayle's decades in the region into practical, pleasurable lessons for visitors. Seasons, siestas, markets, food, and rosé all get their proper due.

While vacationing in Corsica, Sam Levitt and Elena Morales are pulled into trouble when Francis Reboul crosses a Russian tycoon. The result is a breezy but dangerous caper involving mercenaries, money, and island intrigue.

A string of daring jewel thefts across France puts Sam Levitt and Elena Morales on the trail of a master criminal. Even with the danger rising, there is still time for renovation, rosé, and Provençal summer meals.

Mayle looks back on a quarter century in Provence, reflecting on what changed and what stayed wonderfully the same. It is a final, affectionate memoir about village life, beauty, appetite, and belonging.