Tim Parks
Book for an eventBorn in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan.
He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, In Extremis, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the John Florio Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize.
Books by Tim Parks
The Hero's Way
An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi.
Italian Life
How does Italy really work? The bestselling author on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising