Tim Parks: 37 books
Hell and Back
Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The author of the New York Times Notable Book Italian Neighbors shares his insights on classic and modern literature.
In this brilliant collection of essays, Tim Parks, a celebrated novelist and master of the essay form, offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging and always provocative reflections...
Leer ons stil te zitten
een scepticus zoekt zin en gezondheid
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Leer ons stil te zitten is het bijzonder onderhoudende verhaal van Tim Parks' zoektocht naar genezing.
Wanneer Parks wordt gekweld door pijn die niemand lijkt te kunnen verklaren of verhelpen, wordt hij gedwongen een paar harde waarheden over de relatie tussen lichaam en geest, over onze hectische...
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out.
Overwhelmed by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve,...
Out of My Head
On the Trail of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
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...
An Italian Education
The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post).
Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn...
by Tim Parks
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.
Tim 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"...
Cleaver
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The author of Europa—shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize—delivers “a dense, intriguing novel, prickly and strange” (Financial Times).
Why would a man who has it all suddenly turn his back on the world at the height of his power? A celebrated journalist, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker,...
A Season with Verona
A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and . . . Goals!
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as “soccer”) a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer...
by Tim Parks
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
A riveting white-water ride down a raging river in the Italian Alps, pitting people against Nature, in "the novel Tim Parks was born to write" (Sunday Telegraph, London). When 15 vacationers-six adults and nine adolescents-arrive in the Italian Alps to try their kayaking skills against the wild waters...
Waarom ik lees
de veranderende wereld van het boek
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 16, 2015
‘Dit is een boek over lezen dat ervoor zorgt dat je alleen maar meer wilt lezen en een boek over schrijven dat gelezen moet worden.’ – The Observer
Moet je elk boek uitlezen? Heeft je familie invloed op wat je leest? Wat is jouw leesstijl? Waarom lijkt de Nobelprijs op het wereldkampioenschap?...
Italiaanse manieren omnibus
bevat : Italiaanse buren en Italiaanse opvoeding
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 9, 2014
De bestsellers Italiaanse buren en Italiaanse opvoeding in één band
Hoe wordt een Italiaan een Italiaan? Of een Brit een Brit? Worden vreemdelingen geboren of gemaakt? De Engelse schrijver Tim Parks woont al tientallen jaren in Italië. Hij heeft aan den lijve ondervonden hoe moeilijk het is niet...
by Tim Parks
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A museum exhibit celebrating the art of killing turns deadly in this “fiendishly clever pitch-black comedy” skewering the contemporary Italian art world (The Australian).
Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a...
by Tim Parks
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy.
Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood,...
Life and Work
Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author’s life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their...