Idle In Provence: A Brief History of Thyme by Eric Idle #literature or the thinking man's Guy

or the thinking man's Guy Fieri

Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices

every sentence bears a remarkable intelligence

Hodder ISBN: 9781529368772

Yet as they talk

Idle In Provence: A Brief History of Thyme by Eric Idle #literature or the thinking man's GuyDATE OF RELEASE: 10 SEPT 2026 In 1971, two years after the launch of Monty Pythons Flying Circus made his comedy troupe global superstars and made all their lives a little more complicated Eric Idle decided to buy a ramshackle property in the south of France. In search of a simpler, quieter life, what followed was a story akin to A Year in Provence, but with more disaster, more heartbreak, more laughs and much more spam. A tale spanning a fifty year