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Calm by Tim Parks
$7.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
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 and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tac ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i ...Show more
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
"All Italy is here". (Sunday Times). From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim Parks brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona, his re ...Show more
Out of My Head - On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
The Hero's Way - Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: near fine
This is a widely appealing idea for a travel/history book from the bestselling author of Italian Ways, in which Tim follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna across the Apennines, to look at Italy past and ...Show more
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