Tim Parks

Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling Italian Neighbors and An Italian Education. His novels include Europa which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.  His essays have appeared in the The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Parks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.

Tim Parks

Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including the best-selling Italian Neighbors and An Italian Education. His novels include Europa which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.  His essays have appeared in the The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Parks is also a renowned translator from the Italian and lives in Verona.

Books by Tim Parks

  • Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence

    Tim Parks

    Paperback, 2006

    “A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history.”—Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review
  • Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    Tim Parks

    Hardback, 2013

    The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.
  • Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    Tim Parks

    Paperback, 2014

    “So inviting you might find yourself tempted to give the experience a whirl and ride the Italian trains yourself, book in hand.”—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
  • Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    Tim Parks

    E Book, 2013

    “So inviting you might find yourself tempted to give the experience a whirl and ride the Italian trains yourself, book in hand.”—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
  • The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

    Tim Parks

    Hardback, 2021

    The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines.
  • The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

    Tim Parks

    E Book, 2021

    The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines.
  • The Edge of the Horizon

    Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks

    Paperback, 2015

    New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available...
  • The Edge of the Horizon

    Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks

    E Book, 2015

    New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available...
  • Sweet Days of Discipline

    Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks

    E Book, 2019

    On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover