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  • The Best Laid Plans
    Tim Parks
    Henry Dodge’s trials and tribulations continue in The Best Laid Plans, but this time around the stakes are much higher! He struggles with the aftereffects of the Summer of 1985 and all that happened in Los Angeles with King George and his minions, including his childhood crush Danny, confessing to murder.  He attempts to stop the storm of memories with drugs, and soon enough be...
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    17,65 €

  • Rapids
    Tim Parks
    In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an ’introduction to white water.’ Camping eating and paddling together six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on calling a ’community experience.’ Their hosts are Clive a taciturn figure and Michela his fragile girlfriend. Joining the group late are Vi...
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    23,84 €

  • The Scheme of Things
    Tim Parks
    The Scheme of Things, a coming-of-age story with a thriller twist, poses the question: Have you ever had a secret? For young Henry Dodge, every day is an exercise in keeping his. Whether it’s his sketchbook falling into the hands of his older brother, John, or saying the wrong thing to his parents Big Ed and Kate, which may tip them off to the fact that he knows he isdifferent....
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    15,97 €

  • Home Thoughts
    Tim Parks
    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 - why do they find it so impossible to return home as if their very identities depend som...
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    19,30 €

  • Adultery And Other Diversions
    Tim Parks
    ’An invigorating discussion of general ills this collection of autobiographical essays ranges over adultery and parenthood ghosts and gods fiction and football. Living in Italy seems to sharpen the author’s prose and make him even more cleverly English. A splendid volume of fascinating belles-lettres’. Mail on Sunday. ...
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    19,36 €

  • Loving Roger
    Tim Parks
    Tight and disturbing Loving Roger begins with a dead body and a chilling question. Why has nice ordinary affectionate Anna picked up her kitchen knife and murdered the man she insists she loves?... This brief novel is a mordantly illuminating essay on the way love contains the seeds of vindictiveness and hatred' Observer. ...
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    19,52 €

  • Family Planning
    Tim Parks
    Raymond is mad clever manipulative and totally out of his parents’ control. The other children are lying low though still inextricably attached to their father’s purse-strings. Amidst hilarious misunderstandings and poignant inadequacies six well-meaning people relentlessly engineer their own and their loved ones’ downfall. ...
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    23,72 €

  • Hell And Back
    Tim Parks
    In Hell and Back Tim Parks reminds us just how exciting the essay form can be - turning his attention to classic authors like Dante Borges and Leopardi as well as various contemporary writers including Vikram Seth W.G. Sebald and Salman Rushdie. ...
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    23,46 €

  • Goodness
    Tim Parks
    George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage he is secure in the belief that he is master of his own destiny. Then comes the tragic blow - fate presents him with an apparently insoluble problem. Except that the word ’insoluble’ just isn’t part of the man’s vocabulary. Geo...
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    19,36 €

  • Shear
    Tim Parks
    An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit corruption lust and tragedy in Tim Parks’ mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered like the fatal fragment of stone that obsesses him. ...
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    23,97 €

  • Tongues of Flame
    Tim Parks
    The gift of tongues prophecy exorcism. . . what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother.Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards. ...
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    18,38 €

  • Dreams of Rivers and Seas
    Tim Parks
    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...
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    23,05 €

  • Translating Style
    Tim Parks
    Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of interconnected chapters to analyse translations of the works of D.H. Lawrence, Vi...
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    77,21 €

  • Cleaver
    Tim Parks
    Overweight and overwrought Howard Cleaver London’s most successful journalist abruptly abandons home partner mistresses and above all television the instrument that brought him identity and power. It is the autumn of 2004 and Cleaver has recently enjoyed the celebrity attending his memorable interview with the President of the United States and suffered uncomfortable scru...
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    23,57 €

  • Judge Savage
    Tim Parks
    Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience - it’s time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his marriage is happy enough after all. Teenage children require a father’s attention. His career demands the most responsible behaviour. Day by day Judge Savage presides over those wh...
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    24,23 €

  • Destiny
    Tim Parks
    Three months after returning to England Christopher Burton receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel Knightsbridge that informs him of his son’s suicide. But why on receiving this terrible news does Burton immediately decide that he must leave his Italian wife of thirty years standing? Why does he find it so difficult to focus on his grief for his s...
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    23,84 €

  • Erotic Tales
    Alberto Moravia / Tim Parks
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    15,86 €