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Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
How does Italy actually work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels ...Show more
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
"All Italy is here". (Sunday Times). From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim Parks brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona, his re ...Show more
Italian Ways - On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim Parks brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona, his regular trips to Florence and Rome, or his occasional sojourns to Naples and Sicily, Park ...Show more
Life and Work by Parks, Tim
$55.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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 m ...Show more
Medici Money - Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his ...Show more
Medici Money : Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence by Tim Parks
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
THEIR NAME is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis build their fortune on banking--specifically, on lending money at interest. Banking in the fifteenth century, even at the height of the Renaissance, meant running afoul of the Catholic Ch ...Show more
Message from the Shadows - Selected Stories by Antonio Tabucchi; Janice M. Thresher (Translator); Tim Parks (Translator); Martha Cooley (Translator); Antonio Romani (Translator)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of ti ...Show more
Mr Geography by Tim Parks
$34.99 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
Out of My Head - On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 acros ...Show more
Out of my Head by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 acr ...Show more
Painting Death by Tim Parks
$29.99 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