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A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
$21.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
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
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
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
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
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: Science
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: Books, Writing and Language | Reading Level: near fine
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 Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi.Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna ac ...Show more
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