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A dazzling collection of essays from one of Britain's outstanding novelists.
Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks moved permanently to Italy in 1980. Author of novels, non-fiction and essays, he has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His works include Destiny,Europa,Dreams of Rivers and Seas,Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona.
Website: http://www.timparks.com
'I recommend his book to all those who are fed up with accounts of roughing it agreeably in Tuscany and similar junk that scarcely scratches the surface of the real Italy' Daily Telegraph
'There is more here about the pleasurable business of coming from Italy than in any other book in the English language' Independent
Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals
'Judge Savage is a work of tremendous learning and subtlety' Observer
Set in the world of extreme sports, a brilliant new novel from Tim Parks that will widen his readership.
Profound and comic, the story of London TV journalist and interviewer Harold Cleaver, who suddenly walks away from his life to hide in the mountains of the Tyrol.
A novel of India from one of England's finest writers