Home thoughts

PARKS,Tim

Collins

Family Planning

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

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 impossible to return home, as if their very identity has turned out to be such a trap? Centred around a love story full of twists, turns and revelations, "Home Thoughts" explores a world of lost directions, wavering commitments and misplaced ambitions as Julia's adventurous departure confronts her more mercilessly than ever with the problem of what on earth she is to do with her life. Tim Parks is the author of two prize winning novels, "Tongues of Flame" - winner of the Somerset Maugham and of the Betty Trask Award and "Loving Roger" - winner of the John Llewellyhn Rhys Memorial Award. He lives in Italy and works as a translator and teacher.

Home Thoughts

Flamingo Agencies Ltd.

'Adultery & Other Diversions' is a collection of genre-defying non-fiction pieces from the author of Italian Neighbours and the Booker-shortlisted Europa.

Adultery and Other Diversions

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Random House]

From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Saramago, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina Stead, Leopardi, Verga, Montale, Sironi in Fascist Italy, Buzzati, Bateson and Neugeboren.

Hell and Back

Short Stories & Anthologies

An Italian Education

VINTAGE (RAND)

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? After twenty years in the bel paese, 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. From Udine to Catania, from the San Siro to the Olimpico, this is a highly personal account of one man's relationship with a country, its people and its national sport. A book that combines the tension of cliff-hanging narrative with the pleasures of travel writing, and the stimulation of a profound analysis of one country's mad, mad way of keeping itself entertained.

A Season With Verona

Travel

Europe

Vintage

For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water. 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 research and the circumstances of his death are far from clear and, on top of this, John must confront his mother's coolness, and the strangeness of the cremation ceremony that she has organised for his father. No sooner is the body consigned to the flames than a journalist arrives, determined to write a biography of the dead man, and though his mother will have nothing to do with the project, she cannot keep away from the journalist.

Dreams of Rivers and Seas Exp

'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, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe'. "Teach Us to Sit Still" is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health. Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Following a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system he finds solace in an improbable prescription of breathing exercises that eventually leads him to take up meditation. This was the very last place Parks expected or wanted to find answers; anything New Age simply wasn't his scene. Meantime, he is drawn to consider the effects of illness on the work of other writers, the role of religions in shaping our sense of self, and the influence of sport and art in our attitudes to health and well-being. Most of us will fall ill at some point; few will describe that journey with the same verve, insight and radiant intelligence as Tim Parks. Captivating and inspiring, "Teach Us to Sit Still" is an intensely personal - and brutally honest - story for our times.

Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Vintage Books

A thrilling comedy, as dark as it is farcical. Morris can't get over Mimi. But then he should have thought of that before he murdered her and married her sister. Now Mimi's back, as a ghost, and she seems to be suggesting the way to redemption for Morris. He must help the poor immigrants of Verona; but if anybody should get in his charitable way then so much the worse for them.

Mimi's Ghost

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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