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Mr Geography by Tim Parks
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Years after a family tragedy cut short their secret affair, a man retraces a walk through the Alps that he took with the love of his life Michael Burrow is on a walking holiday in Switzerland with his lover, Susan. They have had a long and secret love affair, but now that Susan's two children have le ...Show more
Out of My Head - On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
19.99 AUD
Category: Health
Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks.Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out acros ...Show more
Out of my Head by Tim Parks
35.00 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks. Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out acr ...Show more
Painting Death by Tim Parks
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high society Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family he has now become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it' ...Show more
Painting Death by Tim Parks
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family he has long left aside the paperweight and the pillow to become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it's not enough. Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a ...Show more
Pen in Hand - Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries by Tim Parks
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challeng ...Show more
Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
So, who are you, Beth?o I tried to think of a good answer.' A wild child, a self-acclaimed 'bad girl', Beth Marriot is an unusual candidate for the search for inner peace. The Dasgupta Institute runs meditation retreats for those trying to find equanimity in their lives. The course aims to instil a sens ...Show more
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy; Tim Parks
13.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes ...Show more
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks
19.95 AUD
Category: 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. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Pa ...Show more
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (translator); Tim Parks (translator); William Weaver (translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing." -- from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed ...Show more
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi.Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna ac ...Show more
The Prince by Machiavelli Niccolo Coralie Bickford-Smith (ILT) Tim Parks (TRN)
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whet ...Show more