Tim Parks

Adultery and other Diversions (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099274841

Drawing on anecdote and autobiography, Tim Parks explores various subjects, such as ghosts, Indian gods, Verona Football Club, adultery and the EC...more details
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Cleaver (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099481393

Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television...more details
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Cleaver (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436205613

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Cleaver (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436206276

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Destiny (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099284949

An Englishman, married to an Italian, is informed of the suicide of his son. He decides to leave his wife of 30 years standing in this exploration of marriage and destiny whilst treading a narrow line between sanity and psychosis....more details
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Destiny (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436220883

An Englishman, married to an Italian, is informed of the suicide of his son. He decides to leave his wife of 30 years standing in this exploration of marriage and destiny whilst treading a narrow line between sanity and psychosis....more details
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Dreams Of Rivers and Seas (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781846551147

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Dreams Of Rivers And Seas (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781846551130

'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...more details
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Europa (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099268093

A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart....more details
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Family Planning (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780749396794

A black comedy of family life, by the award-winning author of "Tongues of Flame" and "Loving Roger". Raymond has gone mad. His family have planned their lives so carefully...more details
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Fighter, The (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781846551048

One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks has also published two acclaimed essay collections, "Adultery and Other Diversions" and "Hell and Back". This new volume finds him as provocative and entertaining as ever. The title piece addresses D.H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence and how all the significant relationships in his life...more details
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Goodness (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780749310684

George believes that life is worth living only if it is happy, and that if someone he loves is suffering he should move heaven and earth to end that suffering. He will not accept that life is not destined to be pleasant...more details
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Hell And Back (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099274858

From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Saramago...more details
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Hell And Back (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436275975

From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks' new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Saramago...more details
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Home Thoughts (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099289937

Centred on a love story full of twists, turns and revelations, this novel explores a world of lost directions, wavering commitments and misplaced ambitions...more details
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Italian Education, An (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099286967

How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In this irresistible sequel to his bestselling Italian Neighbours...more details
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Italian Neighbours (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099286950

This is a clever, entertaining book, rare in travel literature, it is charged with a sense of purpose....more details
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Judge Savage (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099445043

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, because of the political convenience of promoting a man with coloured skin - it's time for Daniel Savage to settle down...more details
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Medici Money (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781861977571

In a brisk and witty narrative, Tim Parks uncovers the intrigues, dodges and moral qualities that gave the Medici their edge. Vividly evoking the richness of the Renaissance and the Medici's glittering circle...more details
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Medici Money (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781861977915

The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with that fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How...more details
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Rapids (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099481386

Suddenly alone, you see the river's horizon come to meet you. There's a certain glassiness to it an as the roar of the rapid swells the water grows more compact...more details
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Rapids (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436205590

Meanwhile, the hottest summer on record is filling the glacier-fed rivers with a melt water so wild that it is surely unwise of the distracted instructors to launch their party into the last day's descent of the upper Aurina...Rapids grippingly evokes the vertiginous thrill of entering a hostile environment...more details
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Rapids (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780436205859

But the holiday cannot be entirely separated from the larger world. Rather than allowing them to forget their ordinary personalities, the dangerous river brings out qualities and failings in the most urgent fashion...more details
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Season With Verona, A (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9780099422679

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the Bel Pasese...more details
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Talking About It (Book)

Tim Parks

ISBN:9781843917045

Collected here for the first time the best from Tim Parks's short fiction, spanning across his entire literary career and enriched by new stories written specifically for this publication. The title story of the collection...more details
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