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Hotel Milano by Tim Parks
24.99 AUD
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
Hotel Milano by Tim Parks
35.00 AUD
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
In Extremis by Tim Parks
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His ph ...Show more
Italian Life by Tim Parks
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
How does Italy reallywork? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer the big question There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un'occhio(turn a blind eye). In all areas of public life - community, education, employment - your connections are ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
How does Italy actually work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels ...Show more
Italian Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona by Tim Parks
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living in Italy with this account of the delights and foibles of Italian life. With an Italian wife and family, he is able to introduce the reader to a gallery of characters. Tim Parks won the Somerset Maugham Award for
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"All Italy is here". (Sunday Times). From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim Parks brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona, his re ...Show more
Mr Geography by Tim Parks
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Years after a family tragedy cut short their secret affair, a man retraces a walk through the Alps that he took with the love of his life Michael Burrow is on a walking holiday in Switzerland with his lover, Susan. They have had a long and secret love affair, but now that Susan's two children have left ...Show more
Out of My Head - On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks.Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out acros ...Show more
Pen in Hand - Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries by Tim Parks
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challeng ...Show more
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (translator); Tim Parks (translator); William Weaver (translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing." -- from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed ...Show more