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Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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 Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: TRAVEL
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 Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | 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
Message from the Shadows - Selected Stories by Antonio Tabucchi; Janice M. Thresher (Translator); Tim Parks (Translator); Martha Cooley (Translator); Antonio Romani (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of ti ...Show more
Out of My Head - On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
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 out acros ...Show more
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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
The Prince by Machiavelli Niccolo Coralie Bickford-Smith (ILT) Tim Parks (TRN)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whet ...Show more
The Server by Tim Parks
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Why is a young woman whose irrepressible vitality and confident ego were once set on conquest and stardom, now spending month after month serving in the vegetarian kitchen of a bizarrel ...Show more
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
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 r ...Show more
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