Tim Parks: 37 books

Why do we need fiction? Why do books need  to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of  the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades...

Met zijn radicale, vernieuwende literatuurbegrip ondermijnt Tim Parks de gangbare literaire criteria en ontmaskert hij de devotie waarmee de roman traditioneel wordt besproken. Parks is ervan overtuigd dat de inhoud, de stijl, het soort verhaal én de manier van vertellen samen de overlevingsstrategie...

“Better than Silence of the Lambs . . . Macabre fun orchestrated with immaculate precision. It’s a killer” (Los Angeles Times).   Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona and is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged...

The Prince is the most controversial book about winning power - and holding on to it - ever written. Machiavelli's tough-minded, pragmatic argument that sometimes it is necessary to abandon ethics to succeed made his name notorious. Yet his book has been read by strategists, politicians and business...

‘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 gold, and put it on again and then the world would magically return to what it had been before. Many...

Arising 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 translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of...

A geologist turns sleuth in this “engrossing and beautifully written suspense novel” set in Greece by the author of the Booker Prize shortlisted Europa (The New York Times).   A New York Times Notable Book   In the hallucinatory light and heat of a Mediterranean island, London geologist Peter...

The 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 universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...

De Engelse schrijver Tim Parks woont in de buurt van Verona met zijn vrouw en drie kinderen. Hij heeft aan den lijve ondervonden hoe moeilijk het is niet te verdwalen in de doolhof van regels, gewoontes, normen en waarden die het alledaagse leven in Italië bepalen.

'Europa' is de koortsige, obsessieve monologue intérieur van Jerry Marlow, een leraar Engels in Italië die met een stel collega's en studenten op weg gaat naar Straatsburg om een petitie in te dienen. Hooggestemde idealen zijn niet aan de orde in deze veldtocht: de leraren vinden dat ze worden achtergesteld...

In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams. Why should you stop what you're doing and...

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...

The second Duckworth novel is "A wild and wacky thriller that's like sharing a roller-coaster ride with a suave maniac" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refers to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped...

Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge, and that’s a big advantage. Beth has been working as a server, assisting in the kitchen and helping out—discreetly, so the meditators aren’t disturbed. The meditators are making big sacrifices...