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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 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: Sports and Hobbies
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
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 the relationship between intimate experiences and the larger world of ideas.
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: Biography
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
Calm by Tim Parks
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Minis
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tac ...Show more
Cara Massimina by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the lovely girl chooses to elope? Obsesse ...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
Cleaver by Tim Parks
Category: Fiction
In the autumn of 2004, shortly after his memorable interview with the President of the United States and following the publication of his elder sons novelised autobiography, cruelly entitled Under His Shadow, celebrity journalist, broadcaster and documentary film-maker Harold Cleaver boarded a British A ...Show more