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""Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best"" --Orlando Figes ""Parks's deep affection for Italy with all its flaws... is implicit and compelling"" --New Statesman ""A delightful account of an enthusiast's romp through history and his adopted country"" --Literary Review

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Tim Parks is the author of twenty novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, In Extremis and, most recently, Mr Geography, all of which have been translated into many languages. As well as being a novelist and the author of several works of non-fiction, Tim is the acclaimed translator of books by Moravia, Calvino, Machiavelli and other Italian writers. He is a regular contributor to the TLS, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.

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