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A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
$25.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Cleaver by Tim Parks
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mot ...Show more
Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son, John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mo ...Show more
Hotel Milano by Tim Parks
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$50.00 NZD
Category: World 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
In Extremis by Tim Parks
$26.00 NZD
Category: World 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 pho ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History
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 Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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 Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona by Tim Parks
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel writing
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
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
"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
Medici Money - Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
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 family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his ...Show more