- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Adventure
- Era(s): Modern
How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives,...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2019
In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy’s mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian...
- Location(s): South Tyrol / Alto Adige
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2004
Harold Cleaver is at the height of his journalistic career, he is attacked in the book his son has written and after interviewing the U.S President flees to a remote village in the mountains in Tyrol, where they only...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks – who was described in a recent review as “one of the best living writers of English” – has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000-2001
A diary account for football fans and lovers of Italy… Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? Tim Parks goes on the...
Another Literary Tour of Italy
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Culture
- Era(s): Various
Following the critical and commercial success of A Literary Tour of Italy, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks presents a new selection of his latest essays on Italian literature, offering a lively, accessible and stimulating diorama of the cultural landscape of...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead. Abandoning his girlfriend in London, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. But the nature of his father’s...
- Location(s): Europe, Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From Amazon: Jerry Marlow is on a coach hurtling from Milan to Strasbourg, even though he loathes coaches and everything they stand for:…all the contemporary pieties of getting people together and moving them off in one direction or another...
- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): 1990s
“Am I giving the impression that I don’t like the Veneto? It’s not true. I love it. But like any place that’s become home I hate it too.” How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy –...
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country’s vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains....
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