Eric Idle's latest book Idle In Provence: A Brief History of Thyme is  published later this year and tells the story of Idle's attempt to create a rural idyll in France.

In the book Monty Python co-founder Idle, who was also behind the award-winning musical Spamalot, tells the story of how he bought a ramshackle house in France in 1971 and spent over fifty years doing it up and unwinding there, making friends and trying to learn a new language. It is described at the holy grail of vacation memoirs.