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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | Teach Us to Sit Still(Reprint) A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Rodale Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60961-448-5, ISBN: 1-60961-448-8 "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 fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise tha ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | The Prince(Updated) by Niccolo Machiavelli, Tim Parks Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Classics Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310586-2, ISBN: 0-14-310586-8 "When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the aforementioned office with the tongue-twisting title was none other than Niccolò Machiavelli, who, suddenly finding himself out of a job after 14 years of patriotic service, followed the career ..." |
 | | Stop What You're Doing And Read This! by Haddon, Mark, Rosen, Michael, Smith, Zadie, Callil, Carmen, (2011) by Carmen Callil, Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Jane Davis, Nicholas G. Carr, Blake Morrison, Tim Parks, Dr Maryanne Wolf, Mirit Barzillai Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2012 by Random House Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-09-956594-9, ISBN: 0-09-956594-3 "A mission statement from authors including Jeanette Winterson, Zadie Smith, and Mark Haddon, about the transformative power of reading: the way it inspires us, the tangible impact it can have on our wellbeing, and the importance it holds for us now and will continue to hold in the futureIn any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter ..." |
 | | Teach Us to Sit Still A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2010 by Harvill Secker ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-399-8, ISBN: 1-84655-399-7 "Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health." |
 | | Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-951336-0, ISBN: 0-09-951336-6 "'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, ..." |
 | | Behind The Season 2009/2010 Wealdstone FC by Roger Slater, Gordon Bartlett, Tim Parks Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2011 by Cams Associates Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-9566621-1-8, ISBN: 0-9566621-1-0 |
 | | Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-956589-5, ISBN: 0-09-956589-7 "Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all prospect of happiness. Trauma leaves her no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of a community that wakes at 4am, doesn't permit eye contact, let alone speech, and keeps men and women strictly segregated. But the curious se ..." |
 | | 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)." |
 | | Medici Money Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence by Tim Parks 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-687-2, ISBN: 1-84765-687-0 "He learned to play the viola and the lute. He learned to ride on horseback and to hold the falcon. Deprived of any sense of smell, he began to write poetry full of flowers and bees. It was love poetry. At the age of sixteen, his bumpy forehead and bushy eyebrows had won the heart of pretty Lucrezia Donati. Hoarse and unpleasantly high-pitched to the ear, in verse his voice chimed with precocious harmony. “Tender age will not forego ..." |
 | | A Season with Verona(1st Edition) A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and . . . Goals! by Tim Parks Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2012 by Arcade ISBN-13: 978-1-61145-733-9, ISBN: 1-61145-733-5 "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 club, Hellas Verona, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world’s most beautiful cities, and to get a fresh take on the conundrum ..." |
 | | The Server (Paperback) by Tim Parks Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2012 by Harvill Secker ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-578-7, ISBN: 1-84655-578-7 "But the curious self dies hard. Conflicted and wayward, Beth stumbles on a diary and cannot keep away from it, or the man who wrote it. Originally published with the title The Server" |
 | | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Tim Parks, Niccolo Machiavelli, Nicollo Machiavelli, Niccollo Machiavelli, Parks Machiavelli, George Bull Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Penguin Uk International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-14-144225-9, ISBN: 0-14-144225-5 "Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, "The Prince" is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in "Penguin Classics". As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. "The Prince", his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. ..." |
 | | Teach Us to Sit Still A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-09-954888-1, ISBN: 0-09-954888-7 "Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health." |
 | | The Dream(1st Edition) by Emile Zola, Andrew Brown, Tim Parks, Mile Zola Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Alma Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-84749-311-8, ISBN: 1-84749-311-4 "A new edition of one of Zola's lesser-known novels from the Rougon-Macquart CycleFinding the young Angélique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town's towering cathedral and learns her parents' trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, a passion fueled by her reading of the Golden Legend a ..." |
 | | The Woman of Porto Pim(Reprint) by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2013 by Archipelago ISBN-13: 978-1-935744-74-0, ISBN: 1-935744-74-7 ""Triumphs of nuance and suggestion."—Chicago Tribune"Ruminative, elegiac, and mordantly funny, Tabucchi's prose conjures a state between waking and dreaming."—The New York TimesFrom "A Whale's View of Man":Always so feverish, and with those long limbs waving about. Not rounded at all, so they don't have the majesty of complete, rounded shapes sufficient unto themselves, but little moving heads where all their strange life seems to be co ..." |
 | | The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2012 by Archipelago Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-935744-56-6, ISBN: 1-935744-56-9 "Hypochondria, insomnia, restlessness, and yearning are the lame muses of these brief pages. I would have liked to call them Extravaganzas . . . because many of them wander about in a strange outside that has no inside, like drifting splinters. . . . Alien to any orbit, I have the impression they navigate in familiar spaces whose geometry nevertheless remains a mystery; let’s say domestic thickets: the interstitial zones of our daily hav ..." |
 | | The Road to San Giovanni (Penguin Modern Classics) by Italo Calvino, Tim Parks, Martin Mclaughlin, Patrick Creagh Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118971-0, ISBN: 0-14-118971-1 "In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are ..." |
 | | Mimi's Ghost [ an Unread First Vintage Paperback ] by Tim Parks Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-957260-2, ISBN: 0-09-957260-5 "Morris Duckworth can’t get over Mimi. But maybe he should have thought of that before he murdered her and married her sister. Now Mimi’s back as a ghost, and she seems to be suggesting the way to redemption for Morris. And if anybody should get in his charitable way, then so much the worse for them." |
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