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Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, one of his lovelier students.Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris's dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.

A journey around Italy by train, full of humorous and insightful observations on what the railways and their travellers reveal about the country. From an author well-known for his books about Italy, "A Season With Verona", "An Italian Education" and "Italian Neighbours", which combined have sold 235, 000 copies. 'A grouchy, often very funny hosanna to Italian railroad locomotion in all its rackety glory' Ian Thomson "Evening Standard".

At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus taking him from Milan to Strasbourg. Sitting slightly off-center on the long back seat, he takes stock of the wreckage strewn behind him—a failed marriage, a daughter going astray, and an affair that has left him both numb and licking every wound, self-inflicted or otherwise. Even Marlow's teaching job at the university in Milan is jeopardized by new Italian laws restricting fore...

Trauma leaves Beth with no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of a community that wakes at 4am, doesn't permit eye contact or speech, and keeps men and women segregated. But the curious self dies hard, and the more Beth yearns for purity, the more she feels desire. Setting western individualism against Buddhist belief, THE SERVER is both riveting and highly entertaining.

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 two apparently insuperable problems: how did a ba...

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.

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver and Teach Us to Sit Still. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the Ne...

Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is writing really just like any other job?What happens to your brain when you read a good book?As a novelist, translator and critic, Tim Parks is well-placed to investigate any questions we have about books and reading. In this collection of lively and...

Morris Duckworth, ein mittelloser Englischlehrer in Verona, kann einfach nicht verstehen, warum andere Leute reich sind und er nicht. Seine Schülerin Massimina Trevisan, die reich ist und in ihn verliebt, kann nicht verstehen, warum sie Morris Duckworth nicht einfach auch noch haben kann. Als der Lehrer vor den Augen von Massiminas Familie keine Gnade findet, sieht er sich gezwungen, zu drastischen Maßnahmen zu greifen, um seinen Aufstieg in d...

Als Autor, Übersetzer und Kritiker ist Tim Parks geradezu prädestiniert dafür, alle Fragen, die sich im Zusammenhang mit dem Buch stellen - sei es als Leser, Autor, Kritiker, Juror -, zu untersuchen: Muss man jedes Buch, das man angefangen hat, auch auslesen? Was prägte mein Lesen? Was ist literarischer Stil? Brauchen wir Geschichten? Ist Copyright wichtig? Warum sind Leser unterschiedlicher Meinung? Was bedeuten literarische Preise?Für Tim Pa...

The Novel: A Survival Skill radically reevaluates traditional literary criticism offering an exciting account of what is really at stake in the business of writing and reading.

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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's not enough ... Horrifying and incredibly entertaining, PAINTING BLOOD tells the story of an unrepentant bourgeois serial killer and his adventures in Veronese high society.

A darkly comic novel about the end of a marriage, told in reverse. Recounts what happens when youthful devotion has given way to dog walking, separate bed times and domestic tensions. From the author of "Europa" and "A Season With Verona".

From one of the most gifted writers of his generation (Jonathan Yardley), a collection of thoroughly engaging essays about what is timeless in the routine aspects of our...

Better than Silence of the Lambs . . . macabre fun orchestrated with immaculate precision. It s a killer. Los Angeles...

Originally published in 1999 by Secker & Warburg.

Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge, and that's a big advantage. Beth has been working as a server, assisting in the kitchen and helping out—discreetly, so the meditators aren't disturbed. The meditators are making big sacrifices to come here and change their lives. So the servers must observe the rules, and silence and separation of the sexes are chief among them.But Beth is fig...

A travel guide to the joys rather than the limits of world fiction. San Francisco...

A fireworks display . . . pulling off the brilliant and possibly illegal trick of being clever and gripping at once. The New York Times Book...