Tim Parks

Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant....

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome....

Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took....

The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life - by riding its trains.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and he is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain....

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her....

Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain....

Best-selling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250 miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to look at Italy past and present....

Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge, and that's a big advantage....

From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the first days of lockdown in Europe, about the unexpected kindness of strangers and one man's emotional reckoning....

Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies, but will he reach her in time, and will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? Find out....