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A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
$39.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
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 writing on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
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 Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
$26.99 NZD
Category: 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
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Pa ...Show more
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$26.00 NZD
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
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
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 writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you read a good book? As a no ...Show more
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