Tim Parks

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Tongues of Flame

    The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism. . . what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother.Win...

  • Loving Roger

  • Family Planning

    Raymond is mad, clever, manipulative and totally out of his parents' control. The other children are lying low, though still inextricably attached to their father's purse-strings. Amidst hilarious misunderstandings and poignant inadequacies, six well...

  • Juggling the Stars

    The prequel to Mimi's Ghost chronicles the tragic obsessive love affair between English teacher Morris Duckworth and his wealthy student, a beautiful but vacant heiress. Reprint. 10,000 first printing....

  • Goodness

    The prize-winning author of Europa and Tongue of Flame “explores the nature of goodness and moral faith in this poignant, witty, and disturbing novel” (Library Journal).George Crawley knows a thing or two about being good. After watching his miss...

  • Shear

    A geologist turns sleuth in this “engrossing and beautifully written suspense novel” set in Greece by the author of the Booker Prize shortlisted Europa (The New York Times).  A New York Times Notable Book   In the hallucinatory light an...

  • Europa

    A savagely funny portrait of Jerry Marlow, a middle-aged Brit teaching at an Italian university, caught at the crossroads of his life, recounts his fantasies and memories with his current quest for cultural unity and true love. 10,000 first printing....

  • Adultery and Other Diversions

  • Destiny

    Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain’s foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended sta...



  • Mimi's Ghost

    The second Duckworth novel is "A wild and wacky thriller that's like sharing a roller-coaster ride with a suave maniac" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refers to her. But then, he...

  • A Season with Verona

    Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as “soccer”) a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on th...

  • Judge Savage

    Already a highly successful lawyer, Daniel Savage has just been promoted to the position of Crown Court judge -- though jealous colleagues whisper that his promotion might be due to the fact that he is black. He decides that it’s finally time to se...

  • Rapids

    A riveting white-water ride down a raging river in the Italian Alps, pitting people against Nature, in "the novel Tim Parks was born to write" (Sunday Telegraph, London). When 15 vacationers-six adults and nine adolescents-arrive in the Italian Alps ...

  • Talking about It

    Collected here for the first time is the best from Tim Parks' shorter fiction, spanning his entire literary career and enriched by two new stories written for this volume. The title story of this collection, Talking about It, presents two friends, Ge...

  • Cleaver

    Why would a man who has it all suddenly turn his back on the world at the height of his power? A celebrated journalist, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, Harold Cleaver has just trounced the president in a damning television interview. But bala...

  • Teach Us to Sit Still

  • Hell and Back

  • The Server. by Tim Parks

    Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Why is a young woman whose irrepressible vitality and confident ego were once set on conquest and stardom, now spending month after...

  • Sex Is Forbidden

    Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge. Beth has been working as a server in the kitchen, assisting the clients while also practicing meditation to calm her demons. Like the clients who pa...



  • Painting Death

    Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it’s not enough. Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes...

  • Cara Massimina

    Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft, and then, l...

  • The Scheme of Things

    The Scheme of Things, a coming-of-age story with a thriller twist, poses the question: Have you ever had a secret? For young Henry Dodge, every day is an exercise in keeping his. Whether itís his sketchbook falling into the hands of his older brothe...

  • Thomas and Mary

    ‘Somehow it seemed to him the only thing that would really solve the problem would be to return to the sea and find the old ring with their names and the wedding date engraved inside, in 22-carat gold, and put it on again and then the world would m...

  • In Extremis

    In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read.

    Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he ha...

  • Out of My Head

  • Calm

  • Dreams of Rivers and Seas

  • Hotel Milano

  • The Best Laid Plans

    Henry Dodge's trials and tribulations continue in The Best Laid Plans, but this time around the stakes are much higher! He struggles with the aftereffects of the Summer of 1985 and all that happened in Los Angeles with King George and his minions, in...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tim Parks has published 30 books.

Tim Parks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best Laid Plans, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Tim Parks, Tongues of Flame, was published in January 1988.

No. Tim Parks does not write books in series.
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