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1	Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Expatriate writer Tim Parks brings to bear his considerable expertise in all things Italian on this in-depth look at Florence in the Renaissance that focuses on the dichotomy between the spirit of enterprise that resulted in the flowering of the arts, and the Christian belief that wealth and prosperity lead on a direct path to perdition. Parks ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Novelist and translator Tim Parks describes the rearing of his children in northern Italy, where he has lived with his Italian wife for the last 15 years. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	A season with Verona more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, 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 that is national character. From Udine to Catania, from the San Siro to the Olimpico, travelling with the fans and the players, this is a highly ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.69! \| first editions
4	Italian Education more books like this by Parks add to wishlist How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In this irresistible sequel to his bestselling Italian Neighbours, Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Juggling the Stars more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist In this comic literary thriller, titled CARA MASSIMINA in its original British publication, Tim Parks introduces the amoral Morris Duckworth, a killer who tries to better himself by whatever means necessary, in this case by kidnapping an heiress named Mimi Trevesan. Like Duckworth, Parks worked as a teacher of English in Verona. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
6	A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Characters more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Combining aspects of travel, sports, and memoir writing, expatriate American writer Tim Parks tracks every bus ride, fan riot, shin slide, and goal of his beloved Verona soccer club in the course of their first season competing in Series A--the premier Italian league. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.20! \| first editions
7	Europa more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Italian Neighbors: Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Tim Parks writes entertainingly about his neighborhood near Verona, Italy--the Via Colombare--where he has lived for many years. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.82! \| first editions
9	Italian Neighbors more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy. More than a travel book, Italian ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Destiny more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist When famous foreign correspondent Christopher Burton hears that his son has committed suicide, his reaction to the news is not the usual one. Instead of grief or bewilderment, he feels little except a determination to divorce his wife. Tim Parks's comic, disturbing novel is about the confusing and contradictory web of emotions that can rule a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Rapids more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist 'Suddenly alone, you see the river's horizon come to meet you. There's a certain glassiness to it and as the roar of the rapid swells the water grows more compact, it pulls more earnestly. Above and around, the mountains are quite still. Already you are past the point of no return. You must choose your line.' In the dramatic landscape of the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
12 view cover	Italian Neighbours more books like this by Parks add to wishlist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living in Italy with this account of the delights and foibles of Italian life. With an Italian wife and family, he is able to introduce the reader to a gallery of characters. Tim Parks won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award for "Tongues of Flame" and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for "Loving ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.49!
13 view cover	PHP Bible more books like this by Tim Converse, Joyce Parks add to wishlist * Covers why users need PHP, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL or Oracle databases. * Authors have extensive experience using PHP and provide case studies of how and where to use PHP. * Covers advanced topics, such as HTTP, cookies, Web services, redirection, building graphics, and sessions. see all copies from £7.12! new only from £56.96!
14	Italian Neighbors, Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona: Or a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Tim Parks writes entertainingly about his neighborhood near Verona, Italy--the Via Colombare--where he has lived for many years. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £9.91! \| first editions
15 view cover	Mimi's Ghost more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist A sequel to "Cara Massimina". Morris can't get over the Italian girl who eloped with him two years ago, but perhaps the dear, dead Mimi can't get over him either. Living in Verona and married to her sister, he hears Mimi's voice and sees her endlessly reincarnated face in Renaissance madonnas. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Novelist Tim Parks presents a collection of his book reviews, many initially published in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. Reflections on the work of Christina Stead, W. G. Sebald, Dante, Eugenio Montale, and others are included. see all copies from £2.05! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
17 view cover	Talking about It more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Collected here for the first time the best from Tim Parks's short fiction, spanning across his entire literary career and enriched by new stories written specifically for this publication. The title story of the collection, Talking about It, presents two friends, George and Michael, meeting ritually in a pub every night after a game of squash. ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Duel more books like this by Giacomo Casanova, Tim Parks (Foreword by), J G Nichols (Translator) add to wishlist One of the few works written in Casanova's native Italian, The Duel is an important example of the infamous lothario's vivid prose and inimitable style. Having escaped from the infamous Piombi Prison in Venice, Casanova became an exile, travelling through Western Europe and being given shelter on account of his fame. The story recounts the duel he ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.73!
19 view cover	Home thoughts more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Julia has left home. She has gone to Italy. She has left her lover, her job, her flat, the closely knit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And the motley group of ex-pats she finds in Verona, the Oxbridge brigade, the revolutionary Scot, the cool Canadian, the feminist Flossy - what are they doing here. Why do they find it so ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Indian Nocturne: A Novella by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks (Translator) add to wishlist Antonio Tabucchi describes his novella Indian Nocturne (winner of the Medicis Prize in its French translation) as 'an insomnia' but 'also a journey... in which a Shadow is sought.' In his provocatively elusive but totally compelling way, Tabucchi takes us along on a nightmarish trip through the Indian subcontinent, producing sensations by turns ... see all copies from £6.57! new only from £8.62! \| first editions
21 view cover	Last Vanities more books like this by Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks (Translator) add to wishlist Seven short stories of the violence and turmoil that exist in the midst of daily routines, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.08! \| first editions
22 view cover	Shear more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist On a Mediterranean island, an English geologist is to inspect a quarry on behalf of an Australian client. He has brought along his mistress and pushed his wife and family to the back of his mind. But he reckons without the arrival of a woman with a death to avenge. By the author of "Goodness". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Judge Savage more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Daniel Savage is a black judge in England who feels hypocritical judging some of his cases when he himself has been guilty of various domestic abuses, including adultery and brutality toward his wife. One of his former lovers, a Korean woman, comes back into his life and, when he visits her, he is viciously beaten by her family, ending up in a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Adultery & other diversions. more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist About essay-writing, Tim Parks says on his web site: "I became terribly excited by the way, over a distance of maybe ten to fifteen pages, you could make intellectual reflection, quotation, and a good story fizz together to generate an entirely different kind of excitement than that produced by story or essay alone." The title essay in this ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo, J G Nichols (Translator), Tim Parks (Foreword by) add to wishlist Influenced by the rise of the science of psychology and the turmoil of the early twentieth century, A Perfect Hoax is an ironic and affectionate story of illusion, self-deception and impracticality in a practical world. Mario Samigli is in his seventies; he has all but given up his cherished aspirations as a writer and smiles at the world through ... see all copies from £6.75! new only from £8.67!

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