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Mr Geography by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Years after a family tragedy cut short their secret affair, a man retraces a walk through the Alps that he took with the love of his life Michael Burrow is on a walking holiday in Switzerland with his lover, Susan. They have had a long and secret love affair, but now that Susan's two children have le ...Show more
Painting Death by Tim Parks
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family he has long left aside the paperweight and the pillow to become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it's not enough. Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a ...Show more
Pen in Hand - Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries by Tim Parks
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
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 given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challeng ...Show more
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy; Tim Parks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes ...Show more
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Health
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 Pa ...Show more
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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)
$25.00 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: Fiction
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
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati; Tim Parks (Introduction by); Stuart C. Hood (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trac ...Show more
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
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