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Happy Publication Day to ‘An Unsuitable Boy’ and 90th Birthday to screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies! Andrew will be with us this week to celebrate the publication of his autobiography so if you would like a signed copy, order here - kenilworthbooks.co.uk/produc…
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorAug 17
in the Moral Fables, Leopardi posited the invention of a super intelligent robot that would be a man’s perfect friend, never betraying or contradicting him. “It seems impossible to think,” he reflects, that we “cannot teach a machine to speak.”
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorJun 1
On second thoughts, this photo is closer to the spirit of the thing...
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With the armistice and eventual withdrawal of the Bourbons from Palermo, the Across Sicily posts are over, but the book is there full of the voices the protagonists of this extraordinary adventure...
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorMay 26
Night of 26/27 May. The descent to Palermo. “It was barely a path at all dropping down from crag to crag." Cesare Abba
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorMay 26
Gibilrossa. 12 km south east of Palermo. "IN THIS PLACE ON 26 MAY 1860 THE LEADER OF THE THOUSAND CAMPED HIS BRAVE MEN AND WAS WELCOMED WITH EXULTATION BY LA MASA AND THE PICCIOTTI."
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorMay 22
22 May, 1860. Descent to Parco (Altofonte). "I thus decided to cross, by night, from the road we were occupying on the Renda Pass to Parco, on the Palermo–Corleone road." Garibaldi.
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorMay 19
19 May, 1860. The Renda pass, toward Palermo. “These mountains are notorious for their brigands. A person travelling alone was at risk of never being seen again.” Cesare Abba.
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorMay 12
“Solitude and vastness. True country of Theocritus.” Ippolito Nievo on the 36 km march from Marsala to Salemi, 12 May, 1860. @almabooks
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorMay 11
On the afternoon of 11 May, 1860, the Thousand landed in Marsala... @almabooks For photos to accompany your reading, see timparks.com/non-fiction/acr…
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorMay 5
On the evening of this day in 1860 Garibaldi and his Thousand set out from Quarto for Sicily... @almabooks For photos to accompany your reading, see timparks.com/non-fiction/acr…
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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorApr 22
Bath! Wednesday evening, 22 April. toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ba…

Tim Parks for Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand: An adventure in landscape and Italian memory...

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Tim Parks@TimParksauthorApr 17
Out now...
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A young Dylan Thomas was a serial plagiarist who frequently wrote “audacious rip-offs” of others’ work, a lifelong admirer of the Welsh poet has claimed #poetry independent.co.uk/arts-enter…

Dylan Thomas was ‘serial plagiarist’ as a schoolboy, publisher claims

Welsh poet is alleged to have stolen work of other authors wholesale while at school in Swansea

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Gardners@Gardners3 Sep 2025
Happy 20 years @almabooks! 🎉 To celebrate 20 years of independent publishing, Alma Books have picked out a selection of key books across their bestselling categories. You can view their listing, here: ⬇️ gardners.com/Search?Catalogu…
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The @Soc_of_Authors has announced the John Calder Prize, an annual award for English translations of 'ambitious, groundbreaking work' bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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The TLS@TheTLS21 Nov 2024
'Calvino tells us that the goal of painting is to bring into paint everything that is “paintable”, while the writer writes “to make it possible for the unwritten world to express itself”.' Tim Parks on the writer who moved from realism to fantastical f... the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

Essays by the Italian writer who moved from realism to fantastical fiction

Essays by the Italian writer who moved from realism to fantastical fiction

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Unbelievably good #bargain 3-for-2 offer on ⁦@almabooks⁩ #classics. #special #summer offer. #Alma means soul and these books have soul.
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Afflicted by constant appeals to engage in “dialogue” not conflict, the boys feel compelled to fight and cheat. Deprived of all female contact, they are more or less “in prison”. “The only woman who wasn’t an intruder was the Virgin Mary.” Edoardo Albinati, The Catholic School.
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We see how varied were the messages a boy was exposed to under Fascism: romantic songs, religious engravings, military uniforms, encyclopedias showing every variety of torture... Mickey Mouse in Italian is mixed up with tales of Fascist heroes. Umberto Eco's Queen Loanna.
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