Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since, raising a family of three children. He has written fourteen novels including
Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize),
Destiny,
Cleaver, and most recently
In Extremis.
During the nineties he wrote two, personal and highly popular accounts of his life in northern Italy,
Italian Neighbours and
An Italian Education. These were complemented in 2002 b…
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