Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks is a novelist, memoirist and translator. He came across Sweet Days of Discipline while browsing in an Italian bookshop. His highly praised translation subsequently won the John Florio Prize.
87 Ebooks by Tim Parks
Tim Parks: Goodness
George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage, he is secure in the belief that he is master …
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Tim Parks: Italian Neighbors
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy. Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. …
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Fleur Jaeggy: Sweet Days of Discipline
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: ‘At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell’. But there is nothing truly simple or …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret und das Verbrechen in Holland
Auf einer Vortragsreise in Holland wird Professor Jean Duclos’ Gastgeber Conrad Popinga erschossen, und ausgerechnet Duclos wurde mit der Tatwaffe in der Hand gesehen. Als Maigret in der Hafenstadt …
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Tim Parks: Italien in vollen Zügen
Tim Parks’ Bücher über Italien sind ‘so lebendig, so voll mit köstlichen Details, dass sie als würdiger Ersatz für das Wirkliche dienen können’ (Los Angeles Times). In diesem äußerst unterhaltsamen …
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Tim Parks: Novel
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and …
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Tim Parks: Novel
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and …
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€20.77
Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi: Passions
Selections from Leopardi’s prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim Parks Revenge—Revenge is so sweet one …
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€21.22
Parks Tim Parks: Life and Work
In this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, and their readers Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been …
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Tim Parks: Literary Tour of Italy
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 …
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Tim Parks: Translating Style
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 tran …
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Tim Parks: Translating Style
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 tran …
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Tim Parks: The Fighter
One of Britain”s outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist. This new collection”s title is drawn from D. H. Lawrence”s fundamental belligerence …
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Tim Parks: Judge Savage
Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge – because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience – it’s time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his …
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Tim Parks: Cleaver
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 …
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Tim Parks: Where I’m Reading From
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?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is …
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Tim Parks: Literary Tour of Italy
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 …
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Tim Parks: Pen in Hand
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 …
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Tim Parks: Medici Money
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the …
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Italo Calvino: Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino’s enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated …
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Italo Calvino: Numbers in the Dark
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino’s extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty …
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Italo Calvino: Road to San Giovanni
In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian …
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Prince
‘A gripping work, and a gripping translation’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Niccol Machiavelli’s brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by …
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Italo Calvino: Numbers in the Dark
From the acclaimed, genre-bending Italian fabulist author, a posthumous collection of career-spanning stories previously unavailable in English. “Everybody telephones everybody at every …
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Italo Calvino: Road to San Giovanni
From the Italian author, personal essays featuring his relationship with his father, his love of movies, and fighting fascism during World War II. “In each other’s presence we became …
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Italo Calvino: Complete Cosmicomics
The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s …
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Tim Parks: Shear (Parks, Tim)
A geologist turns sleuth in this “engrossing and beautifully written suspense novel” set in Greece by the author of the Booker Prize shortlisted Europa (The New York Times). A New …
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Tim Parks: Dreams of Rivers and Seas
For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water. Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son …
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Tim Parks: Teach Us to Sit Still
How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our relationships, minds and bodies? What can the simple act of sitting still …
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Tim Parks: Rapids
In the dramatic landscape of 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 …
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Tim Parks: Tongues of Flame
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 …
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Tim Parks: Loving Roger
Tight and disturbing, Loving Roger begins with a dead body and a chilling question. Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up her kitchen knife and murdered the man she insists she …
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Mirit Barzillai & Carmen Callil: Stop What You’re Doing And Read This!
In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, …
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Tim Parks: Italian Neighbours
"Am I giving the impression that I don’t like the Veneto? It’s not true. I love it. But like any place that’s become home I hate it too."How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy – …
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Tim Parks: An Italian Education
How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village n …
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Tim Parks: Europa
Discover Tim Parks darkly funny and deeply prescient Booker prize-shortlisted novel about the European experience. A brilliantly comic and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Europa …
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Tim Parks: Destiny
Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge that informs him of his son’s suicide. But why on …
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Tim Parks: A Season With Verona
”Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society, ” Guardian Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring stat …
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Tim Parks: Hell And Back
In Hell and Back, Tim Parks reminds us just how exciting the essay form can be – turning his attention to classic authors like Dante, Borges and Leopardi, as well as various contemporary writers …
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Tim Parks: Painting Death
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. Having married and murdered his …
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Tim Parks: Adultery And Other Diversions
”An invigorating discussion of general ills, this collection of autobiographical essays ranges over adultery and parenthood, ghosts and gods, fiction and football. Living in Italy seems to sharpen …
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Tim Parks: Cara Massimina
Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation to marry Massimina, one of his lovelier students. And if his intentions are frustrated by a …
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Tim Parks: Family Planning
Raymond is mad, clever, manipulative and totally out of his parents” control. The other children are lying low, though still inextricably attached to their father”s purse-strings. Amidst hilarious …
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Tim Parks: Goodness
George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage, he is secure in the belief that he is master …
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Tim Parks: Home Thoughts
Julia has left home. She has gone to Italy. She has left her lover, her job, her flat, the closely-knit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And the motley group of ex-pats she finds in …
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Tim Parks: Mimi”s Ghost
Morris Duckworth can’t get over Mimi. But maybe he should have thought of that before he murdered her and married her sister. Now Mimi’s back as a ghost, and she seems to be suggesting the way to red …
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Tim Parks: Shear
An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and tragedy in Tim Parks’ mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered …
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Tim Parks: Italian Ways
All Italy is here Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award In 1981 Tim Parks moved …
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Tim Parks: Sex is Forbidden
Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all …
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Tim Parks: Thomas and Mary
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 the wedding date engraved inside, in 22-carat …
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Tim Parks: In Extremis
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; if he leaves now will he get to her deathbed in time?Will he be …
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Tim Parks: Out of My Head
Is my experience real?Or just a movie in my head?Am I no more than a super computer? You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happens in there. Yet even the most sophisticated brain …
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Tim Parks: Calm
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 …
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Stead Christina Stead: Letty Fox: Her Luck
‘Letty Fox: Her Luck is a fully achieved comic novel of a most original kind’ ANGELA CARTER. One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had …
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Tim Parks: Painting Death
Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a respected member of Veronese business life. But its not enough.Never satisfied …
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Natalia Ginzburg: Family Lexicon
‘A masterpiece.’ — The New Yorker’A glowing light of modern Italian literature.’ — New York Times’The places, events, and people in this book are real. I haven’t invented a thing.’Natalia Ginzburg …
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Tim Parks: Italian Life
‘Parks…offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian’ The Times How does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin …
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Tim Parks: Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
“So inviting you might find yourself tempted to give the experience a whirl and ride the Italian trains yourself, book in hand.”—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review Tim Parks’s books on Ita …
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Antonio Tabucchi: Indian Nocturne
‘An enjoyable, well-crafted little book.’—The Complete Review Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narra …
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Antonio Tabucchi: The Edge of the Horizon
New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death, ” now available …
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Fleur Jaeggy: Sweet Days of Discipline
On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy’s fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness s …
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Tim Parks: Judge Savage
Already a highly successful lawyer, Daniel Savage has just been promoted to the position of Crown Court judgethough jealous colleagues whisper that his promotion might be due to the fact that he is …
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Tim Parks: The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
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.
In the summer o …
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Tim Parks: Bin ich mein Gehirn?
Es vergeht kaum ein Tag ohne irgendeine Diskussion, ob Computer ein Bewusstsein haben können, ob unser Universum eine Art Simulation, ob der Geist ein einzigartiges Charakteristikum des Menschen ist. …
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Cesare Pavese: Moon and the Bonfires
‘Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive’ The New York Times Book Review A new translation by Tim Parks Twenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing …
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Ricardo Manzotti & Tim Parks: Dialogues on Consciousness
Over a period of many years, the celebrated English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti have been discussing the nature of consciousness. Not long ago, Parks suggested to …
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Cesare Pavese: House on the Hill
‘Pavese’s novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings’ Italo Calvino June, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its …
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Tim Parks: Hero’s Way
‘Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best’ Orlando Figes In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4, …
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D. H. Lawrence: D. H. Lawrence and Italy
In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence’s stay among the people of …
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Natalia Ginzburg: Manzoni Family
Winner of the Bagutta Prize, The Manzoni Family set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, captures the story of Alessandro Manzonicelebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of …
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Vitaliano Brancati: Beautiful Antonio
Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio – the handsomest young man in Catania – returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind …
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Roberto Calasso: Book of All Books
‘Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else’ Telegraph Promise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso’s captivating retelling of key stories …
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Tim Parks: Der Weg des Helden
Der Marsch Garibaldis und seiner Garibaldini durch den Apennin von Rom nach Ravenna ist legendär und zentral für die Einigung Italiens. Im Sommer 2019 ist Tim Parks Garibaldis Spuren gefolgt und …
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Riccardo Manzotti & Tim Parks: Dialogues on Consciousness
Over a period of many years, the celebrated English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti have been discussing the nature of consciousness. Not long ago, Parks suggested to …
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Roberto Calasso: Tablet of Destinies
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 to destroy them. But Ea, the …
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Tim Parks: Hotel Milano
From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man’s emotional reckoning in a changed world far from home Frank’s reclusive existence in a leafy part of London …
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Tim Parks: Hotel Milano
März 2020, die Welt hat sich über Nacht verändert. Frank ist kurzfristig nach Mailand gereist und sitzt nun in seinem Luxushotel fest, wo er eine folgenschwere Begegnung hat. Eine berührende …
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Tim Parks: The Scheme of Things
The Scheme of Things, a coming-of-age story with a thriller twist, poses the question: Have you ever had a secret? For young Henry Dodge, every day is an exercise in keeping his. Whether it’s his ske …
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