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An Italian Education by Tim Parks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46How 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... -
A Season With Verona by Tim Parks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,' GuardianIs Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states?... -
Rapids by Tim Parks 9781784706326
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In 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... -
The Server by Tim Parks 9781846555770
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Sex 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 once... -
Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks 9780099565895
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Sex 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... -
Italian Neighbors by Tim Parks 9780802140340
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140340Author Tim ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life.After years of their... -
Mimi's Ghost by Tim Parks 9780099572602
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Morris can't get over Mimi. But then 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 redemption... -
The Scheme of Things by Tim Parks 9798991134804
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991134804Author Tim ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint -
Painting Death by Tim Parks 9780099581437
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high societyMorris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his... -
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Europa by Tim Parks 9780099268093 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.96Discover 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... -
Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85How 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... -
The Best Laid Plans by Tim Parks 9781962874922
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962874922Author Tim ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint -
Italian Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona by Tim Parks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95"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 - not the... -
A Literary Tour of Italy Tim Parks 9781846883910
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An 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... -
The Novel: A Survival Skill by Tim Parks 9780198739593
Booksplease Price: £27.58The 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... -
The Fighter: Literary Essays by Tim Parks 9780099513322
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49One 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,... -
Another Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks 9781846884726
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Following 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,... -
Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Is 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... -
Thomas and Mary: A Love Story by Tim Parks 9781784702007
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'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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Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks 9780099565895 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.91Sex 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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A Season With Verona by Tim Parks 9780099422679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.47'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,' GuardianIs Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states?... -
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An Italian Education by Tim Parks 9780099286967 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41How 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... -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin... -
Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other Mysteries by Tim Parks
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.59How 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... -
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Should 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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Italian Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona by Tim Parks 9780099286950 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.19"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 - not the... -
Hotel Milano: Booker shortlisted author of Europa by Tim Parks 9781529919639
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led... -
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.46How 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... -
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them by Tim Parks 9780300215366
Booksplease Price: £56.26In 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... -
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks 9780393348828
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Tim Parks's books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in... -
Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence Tim Parks 9781861977571
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 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... -
Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature Tim Parks 9781905763047
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Arising 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... -
Into the wild - Nature in Dreams of Rivers and Seas and Rapids by Tim Parks by Urs Endhardt 9783656421436
Booksplease Price: £20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656421436Author Urs EndhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand: An adventure in landscape and Italian memory Tim Parks 9781846884757
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The 1860 Expedition of the Thousand, in which a group of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa, landing on the west coast of Sicily and advancing to its capital Palermo... -
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Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks 9780099548881 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40How 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... -
The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero 9781913394905
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The month, November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by the arrival of a plane and the departure... -
Liberty: Vintage Minis by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the... -
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment...