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A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
Category: Non-Fiction
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writing on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his ...Show more
A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
Category: Travel
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of hi ...Show more
A Season with Verona by Tim Parks
Category: Travel
Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? This book follows the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities.
Adultery and Other Diversions by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
In Adultery and Other Diversions, Tim Parks seeks, as he puts it, to "dramatize the intimate relation between reflections that are timeless and the ongoing story of our lives." He succeeds magnificently. Whether his focus is adultery, marriage, his relationship with his father, ghosts, his children, Ita ...Show more
An Italian Education by Tim Parks
Category: Travel
After living in Italy for ten years and having married into an Italian family, novelist Tim Parks describes his experiences of the country and its people. How does an Italian become Italian? Focusing on his own children, Parks builds a picture of contemporary family life.
An Italian Education by Tim Parks
Category: Travel
Tim Parks's best seller, Italian Neighbors, offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in An Italian Education, Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born childre ...Show more
Cleaver by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. It is the autumn of 2004 and Cleaver has recently enjoyed the celebrity attending his memorable inter ...Show more
Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son, John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mo ...Show more
Europa by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
A brilliantly comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he's trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his hea ...Show more
Hell and Back by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
A collection of essays from one of Britain's finest writers. Subjects covered include Svebo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste, Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology; also Saramago, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina Stead, Leopardi, Sironi in Fascist Italy, Buzzati, Bateson and Neugeboren.
Hotel Milano by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
Set in a grand hotel as Milan shuts down in early 2020, this is a classic story of a man's emotional reckoning and the unexpected kindness of strangers From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the first days of lockdown in Europe, about the unexpected k ...Show more
Hotel Milano by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the first days of lockdown in Europe, about the unexpected kindness of strangers and one man's emotional reckoning.Milan, 2020. Drawn abruptly from his reclusive life in London for a friend's funeral, Frank finds ...Show more