Italian Neighbours - An Englishman in Verona (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

Italian Neighbours - An Englishman in Verona (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

But like any place that's become home I hate it too.'How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to Verona he found it irresistible and infuriating in equal

Italian Education (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

How does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work and at

Painting Death (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high societyMorris Duckworth has a dark

Season With Verona (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,' GuardianIs Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring

Out of My Head - On the Trail of Consciousness (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

'An exceptionally witty and compelling look at the nature of consciousness... Parks is a delight to read' Iain McGilchrist'[It has] wit, humanity and insight... Parks is an entertaining companion throughout' Mail on

Italian Ways - On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants, this title captures what makes Italian life

Serpent King (Zentner Jeff)(Paperback / softback)

Dill's father is in jail for an unspeakable crime. Shunned by the neighbours in their small religious Tennessee town, Dill and his mother try to make ends meet. Dill's only respite from poverty and prejudice are his two friends: Lydia and

Naples '44 - An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth (Lewis Norman)(Paperback / softback)

Europa (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliantly comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he's trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke

Foul Play: Dead Ball (Palmer Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev and a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie, Alex Finn. But Alex goes against their wishes. Something is going on with England's replacement goalie, and Danny soon finds himself caught up with the

I Invited Her In (Parks Adele)(Paperback / softback)

Chill in the Air - An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 (Origo Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Submergence (Ledgard J M)(Paperback / softback)

In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Posing as a water engineer to spy on al-Qaeda activity in the area, he now faces extreme privation, mock executions and forced marches through arid Somali

Happy Families (Parks Adele)(Paperback / softback)

Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks writes novels that real women want to read. With her trademark tell-it-like-it-is style, she gets right to the heart of the dilemmas people face in their lives and takes her stories to unexpected

Squirting Milk at Chameleons: An Accidental African (Fenton Simon)(Paperback)

The tale of an Englishman making a life for himself in

Cat Who Came In From The Cold (Longden Deric)(Paperback / softback)

The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his

Ask an Astronaut - My Guide to Life in Space (Official Tim Peake Book) (Peake Tim)(Paperback / softback)

Merde in Europe (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback)

An Englishman, Paul West, goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP. There he gets an insider's view of what really goes on in the massive madhouse that is the EU Parliament. With the referendum on the horizon, things are even more hysterical than usual. When the Brexit result comes in, Paul has to

Calm - Vintage Minis (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. He recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great

London Calling (Carey Helen)(Paperback / softback)

An irresistible, romantic and nostalgic novel about a resilient community of friends and neighbours in Clapham, south London, during the Second World War - not to be missed by readers of Lilian Harry, Kate Thompson and Annie

Ice-Floe Girl (Motton Gregory)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir about a young Englishman falling in love with a stunning Swedish

In a Time Lapse (Einaudi Ludovico)(Paperback)

(Piano Solo Personality). Recorded in a remote monastery in Verona, Ludovico Einaudi's In a Time Lapse explores the concept of capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time. This exclusive matching piano folio presents all 14 tracks from the album plus five bonus

Snowleg (Shakespeare Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is

The Legend of Old Befana: An Italian Christmas Story (dePaola Tomie)(Paperback)

In this beloved classic picture book, Tomie dePaola retells and illustrates an Italian Christmas folk tale, breathing warmth and humanity into the character of the lonely Old Befana and her endless search for the Christ Child. Every morning and every afternoon, Old Befana sweeps with her broom