Tim Parks

The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life - by riding its trains.

Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took....

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her....

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and he is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain....

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a huge...