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  • An Italian Education

    The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona

    by Tim Parks ...
    A "marvelous" Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors ( The Washington Post).Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian.When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Italian Neighbours

    An Englishman in Verona

    by Tim Parks ...
    "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 - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to Verona he found it irresistible and infuriating in equal measure; this book is the story of his love affair with it. Infused with an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Medici Money

    Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

    by Tim Parks ...
    The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    by Tim Parks ...
    The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    **'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics**As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Goodness

    by Tim Parks ...
    The prize-winning author of Europa and Tongue of Flame "explores the nature of goodness and moral faith in this poignant, witty, and disturbing novel" ( Library Journal).George Crawley knows a thing or two about being good. After watching his missionary father die in Africa and his selfless mother get taken advantage of back in England, he knows that being good is for chumps. Looking out for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Judge Savage

    A Novel

    by Tim Parks ...
    Already a highly successful lawyer, Daniel Savage has just been promoted to the position of Crown Court judge—though jealous colleagues whisper that his promotion might be due to the fact that he is black. He decides that it’s finally time to settle down, forswear philandering, and rededicate himself to his family. His teenage children require a father’s attention, and his career demands ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Boys Alive

    by Pier Paolo Pasolini ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors.Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first work of fiction and it remains his best known. Written in the aftermath of Pasolini's move from the provinces to Rome, the novel captures the. hunger and anger, waywardness and ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Europa

    by Tim Parks ...
    A brilliantly 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's 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. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • In Extremis

    by Tim Parks ...
    Thomas needs to speak to his mother before she dies.But he's set to give a talk to a conference of physiotherapists in the Netherlands; if he leaves now will he get to her deathbed in time?Will he be able to say what he couldn't say before? He can't concentrate on what is happening now: his mind won't sit still. Should he try to solve his friend's marital crisis? Should he reconsider his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Cara Massimina

    by Tim Parks ...
    Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the lovely girl chooses to elope? Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris' dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Prince

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD