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  | | The Prince (A Penguin Classics Hardcover) by Niccolo Machiavelli, Tim Parks, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Machiavelli Niccolå Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-139587-6, ISBN: 0-14-139587-7 "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. Whether on a well-curated shelf or in your back pocket, these timeless works of philosophical, political, and psychological thought are abso ..." |
 | | Out of My Head(1st Edition) On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Harvill Secker International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-911215-71-4, ISBN: 1-911215-71-X "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 across the universe like butter on bread. Most philosophers believe that our experience is locked inside our skulls, an unreliable representa ..." |
 | | Lonely Planet Experience Italy(1st Edition) (Travel Guide) by Collectif Lonely Planet, Bonnie Alberts, Oliver Berry, Alison Bing, Abigail Blasi, Cristian Bonetto, Kerry Christiani, Gregor Clark, Douglas Cruickshank, Matthew Fort, Paula Hardy, Abigail Hole, Kate Morgan, Tim Parks, Olivia Pozzan, Brendan Sainsbury, Sarah Barrell, Simon Sellars, Oliver Smith, Tony Wheeler, Nicola Williams Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Lonely Planet ISBN-13: 978-1-78701-331-5, ISBN: 1-78701-331-6 "Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Experience Italy is your passport to majestic nature, epic journeys, cultural powerhouses and out-of-this-world experiences. We travel through buzzing cities, colourful coastal villages, rolling Tuscan hills, and grand piazzas. Discover the secrets to the perfect pizza, explore the atmospheric ruins of Pompeii, get behind the scenes of La Scala opera house, and more ..." |
 | | In Extremis(1st Edition) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Harvill Secker International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-911215-70-7, ISBN: 1-911215-70-1 "In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn’t say before? His phone is buzzing, his mind is racing, and he can’t concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend ..." |
 | | Translating Style A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature (Hardback) by Tim Parks Hardcover, Published 2016 by Taylor Francis Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-138-13758-5, ISBN: 1-138-13758-8 |
 | | Thomas and Mary A Love Story by Tim Parks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Harvill Secker International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-910701-15-7, ISBN: 1-910701-15-7 "'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 years before. This did not happen.' Thomas and Mary have been married for thirty years. They have two children, a dog, a house in the suburbs. ..." |
 | | Life and Work(1st Edition) Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them by Tim Parks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21536-6, ISBN: 0-300-21536-3 "In this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, and their readers 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 li ..." |
 | | Where I'm Reading From(1st Edition) The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by New York Review Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-884-3, ISBN: 1-59017-884-X "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 of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work ..." |
 | | A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Alma Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84688-352-1, ISBN: 1-84688-352-0 "An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks – who was described in a recent review as “one of the best living writers of English” – has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best essays on the literature of his adopted country.From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Nov ..." |
 | | Where I'm Reading from The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvill Secker ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-903-7, ISBN: 1-84655-903-0 |
 | | Painting Death [ an Unread Fine First Printing Plus Publicity Letter ] by Tim Parks Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvil Secker, Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-717-0, ISBN: 1-84655-717-8 "From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high society Morris Duckworth has a dark past." |
 | | Italian Ways(1st Edition) On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-393-23932-4, ISBN: 0-393-23932-2 "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" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny portrait of Italian ways by riding its t ..." |
 | | Ghana Must Go(1st Edition) by Taiye Selasi, Tim Parks Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-670-91986-4, ISBN: 0-670-91986-1 "A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is the story of a family - of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life ..." |
 | | Sex Is Forbidden (Hardback) by Tim Parks Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2013 by Arcade ISBN-13: 978-1-61145-907-4, ISBN: 1-61145-907-9 "A fast-paced novel set in a Buddhist retreat, acclaimed on its UK publication as “a cracker—clever, funny, and insightful, with complicated, conflicted, and totally convincing Beth at its heart” (Daily Mail)." |
 | | Cara Massimina [ an Unread First Vintage Paperback ] by Tim Parks Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-957262-6, ISBN: 0-09-957262-1 "Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student." |
 | | Teach Us to Sit Still(1st Edition) A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Rodale Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60961-158-3, ISBN: 1-60961-158-6 "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, Parks follows a fruitlessjourney through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: abreathing exercise tha ..." |
 | | Dreams of Rivers and Seas ****UNC PROOF***(1st Edition) by Tim Parks, Cornel West Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2008 by Harvill Secker ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-113-0, ISBN: 1-84655-113-7 "'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, John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. A brilliant and controversial anthropologist, the nature of Albert James' research, and the circumstances of his death ..." |
 | | Cleaver A Novel by Tim Parks Hardcover, 322 Pages, Published 2008 by Arcade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55970-855-5, ISBN: 1-55970-855-7 "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. It is the autumn of 2004 and Cleaver has recently enjoyed the celebrity attending his memorable interview with the President of the United States and suffered uncomfortable scrutiny following the publication of his elder son's novelised ..." |
 | | Kirchner 1880-1938 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Tim Parks, Debbie Lewer, Klaus H. Carl Hardcover, 255 Pages, Published 2007 by Parkstone International ISBN-13: 978-1-84484-427-2, ISBN: 1-84484-427-7 "kunst / kunstwissenschaft - oktav hardcover" |
 | | Cleaver; an 'as new', signed 1st edition. by Tim Parks Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2006 by Harvill Press ISBN-13: 978-0-436-20561-3, ISBN: 0-436-20561-0 |
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