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Tim Parks
But like any place that’s become home I hate it too. How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy…
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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
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Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants, this title captures what makes Italian life distinctive.
From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and Italian Ways, Italian Life is a particular reckoning with a beloved adopted country.
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Following the critical and commercial success of A Literary Tour of Italy, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks presents a new selection of his latest essays on Italian literature, offering a lively…
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Roberto Calasso
An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood
A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood…
Thomas needs to speak to his mother before she dies. But he’s set to give a talk to a conference of physiotherapists in the Netherlands;
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Henry Dodge's trials and tribulations continue in The Best Laid Plans, but this time around the stakes are much higher! He struggles with the aftereffects of the Summer of 1985…
The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present-following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines.
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Europa, a beautifully wrought story of love and memory set in the dramatic landscape of the Alps
Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk…
‘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…
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A 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 is trapped in the awful…
How does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating…
A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is…
Roberto Calasso … tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project –
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Cesare Pavese
In Pavese’s last and greatest novel, Nuto, an orphan saved from death by a rural family, returns to Italy from America soon after World War II. He is now rich…
Niccolo Machiavelli
How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than…
How does a ruler win respect? Should a ruler be feared rather than loved? This handbook on power and politics grapples with these questions.
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Italo Calvino
A collection of short stories covering the length of the author’s writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It includes fables; a town where…
Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer…
‘Somehow it seemed to him the only thing that would really solve the problem would be to return to the sea and find the old ring with their names and…
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From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high society Morris Duckworth has a dark past.
In the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an ‘introduction to white water.’ Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy…
‘An exceptionally witty and compelling look at the nature of consciousness… Parks is a delight to read’ Iain McGilchrist ‘[It has] wit, humanity and insight… Parks is an entertaining companion…
Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Why is a young woman whose irrepressible vitality and confident ego were…
Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate…
After delighting us with his novels and many volumes of non-fiction, Tim Parks - who is not only an acclaimed author and a translator, but also a celebrated literary essayist…
This is a New York Review book –Title page verso.
A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history. -Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review
Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? This…
An Englishman, married to an Italian, is informed of the suicide of his son. He decides to leave his wife of 30 years standing in this exploration of marriage and…
Daniel Savage is a Crown Court judge. In this novel by Tim Parks the author offers a penetrating glimpse into the human condition when, through the judge’s eyes, he observes…
Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London’s successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. Humiliated by his inability to…
A revelatory read with delightful cultural and literary references, Teach us to Sit Still by Booker-shortlisted author Tim Parks examines how the philosophy of ‘sit still, relax and stop worrying’…
Drawing on anecdote and autobiography, Tim Parks explores various subjects, such as ghosts, Indian gods, Verona Football Club, adultery and the EC. The aim is to make the reader appreciate…
From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, this collection of essays covers other subjects such as: Saramago, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina Stead, Leopardi, Verga…
A novel in which a young woman, Julia, leaves everything she holds dear in Britain and heads for Verona, where she meets a motley group of ex-patriates, a revolutionary Scot…
George believes that life is worth living only if it is happy, and that if someone he loves is suffering he should move heaven and earth to end that suffering…
Begins with a corpse and a chilling question: Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up a knife and murdered the man she insists she loves? Winner of the John…
On a Mediterranean island, an English geologist is to inspect a quarry on behalf of an Australian client. He has brought along his mistress and pushed his wife and family…
A black comedy of family life, by the award-winning author of Tongues of Flame and Loving Roger . Raymond has gone mad. His family have planned their lives so carefully…
The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism… what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the…
The bestselling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life–by riding its trains.
