"Italian Neighbors: Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona" von Tim Parks ist ein humorvoller und einfühlsamer Bericht über das Leben eines Engländers, der sich in der italienischen Stadt Verona niederlässt. Parks schildert seine Erfahrungen...

How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his...

"Juggling the Stars" von Tim Parks ist ein Roman, der sich um Themen wie Bedrohung und menschliche Beziehungen dreht. Die Geschichte folgt dem Protagonisten Morris Duckworth, einem Englischlehrer, der in Italien lebt. Morris ist...

Harold Cleaver ist auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere als Fernsehjournalist. Über sein denkwürdiges Interview mit dem amerikanischen Präsidenten spricht man im ganzen Land, nicht nur in London. Man spricht aber auch über das gerade...

There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un'occhio (turn a blind eye). In all areas of public life - community, education, employment - your connections are everything. From the bestselling...

"The Shear" von Tim Parks ist ein spannungsgeladener Roman, der sich mit den Themen Identität, Politik und persönlichem Konflikt auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte spielt in einer fiktiven Region, die von politischen Unruhen und sozialen...

Trauma leaves Beth with no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of a community that wakes at 4am, doesn't permit eye contact or speech, and keeps men and women segregated. But the curious self dies hard, and the more...

Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to explore Italy's past and present.In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe...

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Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver, A Season with...

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...