Tim Parks

Set in a grand hotel as Milan shuts down in early 2020, this is a classic story of a man's emotional reckoning and the unexpected kindness of strangers. From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa, and The Hero's Way, this is a story set during the first days of lockdown in Europe, about the unexpected kindness of strangers and...

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Europa, a beautifully wrought story of love and memory set in the dramatic landscape of the Alps. Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, a mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life. After years of their secret affair,...

An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi. Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best - Orlando Figes 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...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between. How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty...

How does Italy actually work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer this question, and the results are often surprising. Italian Life by Tim Parks offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian. As The Times notes, "Parks... offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian." When...