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ⓘ About Tim Parks
Timothy Harold Parks is a British author, novelist, translator, and literature professor. He has authored more than eighteen novels, with his first novel, Tongues of Flame winning the Somerset Maugham Award and Betty Trask Award in 1986. The same year, Park’s book Loving Roger won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Other of Parks’s highly praised books include Destiny, Shear, Cleaver, Judge Savage, and In Extremis. Some of Parks stories have also been published in The New Yorker. Since the 1990’s Parks has often written for both the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
All Book Series by Tim Parks
Reading and the Reader
Series opener · book 1 of 13 · published 2013 Anthology · PhilipDavis
Repetition and Identity
Book 3 of 13 · published 2013 Anthology · Catherine Pickstock
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century
Book 6 of 13 · published 2016 Anthology · Maryanne Wolf
Is Literature Healthy?
Book 8 of 13 · published 2016 Anthology · Josie Billington
Literature and the Public Good
Book 10 of 13 · published 2016 Anthology · Rick Rylance
The Humanities and Everyday Life
Book 11 of 13 · published 2017 Anthology · Michael Levenson
Milton's Poetical Thought
Latest in the series · book 13 of 13 · published 2021 Anthology · Maggie Kilgour
Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
Series opener · book 1 of 6 · published 2002
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
Book 3 of 6 · published 2015
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them
Book 5 of 6 · published 2016
Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other Mysteries
Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2019
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Tim Parks?
Timothy Harold Parks is a British author, novelist, translator, and literature professor. He has authored more than eighteen novels, with his first novel, Tongues of Flame winning the Somerset Maugham Award and Betty Trask Award in 1986. The same year, Park's book Loving Roger won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Which Tim Parks series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Italy and Italians series, the earliest of Tim Parks's multi-book series: it opens with Italian Neighbors (1985) and runs to 5 books across 1985–2014, ending with Italian Ways (2014). Tim Parks's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Tim Parks written?
Tim Parks has 53 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1985 and 2021. 28 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being The Literary Agenda series with 13 books — and 25 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Tim Parks's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Tim Parks's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Italy and Italians (1985–2014, 5 books), The Deadly Mr Duckworth (1995–2015, 4 books) and Writers and Literature (2002–2019, 6 books), plus 1 more.
How are Tim Parks's books organised into series?
This guide splits Tim Parks's 53 books into 4 named series and 25 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Literary Agenda (13 books, 2013–2021); Writers and Literature (6 books, 2002–2019); Italy and Italians (5 books, 1985–2014); The Deadly Mr Duckworth (4 books, 1995–2015).