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Painting Death by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
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. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family he has now become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it' ...Show more
Pen in Hand - Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries by Tim Parks
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
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
Rapids by Tim Parks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrives for an 'introduction to white water'. Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a 'community experience'. Their hosts are Clive, a tactit ...Show more
Rapids by Tim Parks
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a 'community experience.' Their hosts are Clive, a tacitur ...Show more
Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
So, who are you, Beth?o I tried to think of a good answer.' A wild child, a self-acclaimed 'bad girl', Beth Marriot is an unusual candidate for the search for inner peace. The Dasgupta Institute runs meditation retreats for those trying to find equanimity in their lives. The course aims to instil a sens ...Show more
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy; Tim Parks
$30.00 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Teach Us to Sit Still - A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, the author confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer.
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (translator); Tim Parks (translator); William Weaver (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing." -- from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed ...Show more
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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