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  • av Tim Parks
    190,-

    Begins with a corpse and a chilling question: Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up a knife and murdered the man she insists she loves? Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize when first published, this novel illuminates the way love contains the seeds of vindictiveness and hate.

  • av Tim Parks
    190,-

    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, or that his marriage can be anything but ideal. Then a deformed baby is born.

  • av Tim Parks
    190,-

    Centred on a love story full of twists, turns and revelations, this novel explores a world of lost directions, wavering commitments and misplaced ambitions, as Julia's adventurous departure to Italy confronts her more mercilessly than ever with the problem of what she is to do with her life.

  • av Tim Parks
    210,-

    From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, this collection of essays covers other subjects such as: Saramago, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina Stead, Leopardi, Verga, Montale, Sironi in Fascist Italy, Buzzati, Bateson and Neugeboren.

  • av Tim Parks
    190,-

    Drawing on anecdote and autobiography, Tim Parks explores various subjects, such as ghosts, Indian gods, Verona Football Club, adultery and the EC. The aim is to make the reader appreciate the relationship between intimate experiences and the larger world of ideas.

  • - A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
    av Tim Parks
    146,-

    A revelatory read with delightful cultural and literary references, Teach us to Sit Still by Booker-shortlisted author Tim Parks examines how the philosophy of 'sit still, relax and stop worrying' can be profoundly life-altering. 'Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh;

  • av Tim Parks
    220,-

    For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water. Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead.

  • - Literary Essays
    av Tim Parks
    146,-

    One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist.

  • av Tim Parks
    210,-

    Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power.

  • - A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature
    av Tim Parks
    596,-

    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.

  • - An Englishman in Verona
    av Tim Parks
    156,-

    But like any place that's become home I hate it too."How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to Verona he found it irresistible and infuriating in equal measure;

  • av Tim Parks
    220,-

    Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience - it's time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Day by day Judge Savage presides over those whose double lives have been exposed.

  • av Tim Parks
    163,-

    How does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work and at play.

  • av Tim Parks
    190,-

    The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism. . . what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother. Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards.

  • av Tim Parks
    156,-

    A brilliantly 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's 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.

  • av Tim Parks
    200,-

    Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge that informs him of his son's suicide. But why on receiving this terrible news, does Burton immediately decide that he must leave his Italian wife of thirty years standing?

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