Tim Parks

“One of the most awful scenes of destruction from civil discord that modern history has recorded”, reports Admiral Mundy in his diary, HMS Hannibal at Palermo and Naples (1863). @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-featur…

"The idea was to combine the walking with readings of diaries, archives and contemporary accounts on both sides of the political divide, comparing the liberal aspirations of the past with the realities of the present." @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-featur…

Across Sicily at the Italian Cultural Institute, 23 April.... iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_eventi/…

@NomadeFI @almabooks @iiclondra Ah, I didn't realize it was different.

@TimParksauthor @almabooks @iiclondra Thanks @TimParksauthor. I was looking at the US site.

Just arrived finished copies of Across #Sicily with Garibaldi’s Thousand by Tim Parks almabooks.com/product/across… @TimParksauthor #books @iiclondra #booksbooksbooks #historylovers #booklover #booklovers

@NomadeFI @almabooks @iiclondra says 23 April in this link amazon.co.uk/Across-Sicily-…

@almabooks @TimParksauthor @iiclondra Amazon says this book is not available until July 28 @almabooks and @TimParksauthor?

Even more than other great innovations – the factory assembly line, the fast-food chain – this fabulous facility for retrieving and mixing, or mixing up, what has already been said or thought, true or false, promises an inexhaustible supply of sameness...

@RichTKelly Thanks Richard... they only give me 750 words...

On language & standardisation, genre & AI - @TimParksauthor says pretty much all of it over four taut columns of text.

"I remember my own dismay when Word introduced their spelling and grammar checks. My documents were suddenly speckled red and green. Has any business enterprise made a greater contribution to sameness than the super-innovative Microsoft?"

Just off to the printers: Across #Sicily with Garibaldi’s Thousand by Tim Parks almabooks.com/product/across… @TimParksauthor #books @iiclondra #booksbooksbooks #historylovers #booklover #booklovers

“Ancient China and Egypt wallowed for millennia in a magnificent sclerosis”, Cioran enthuses. The “feverish civilizations” of the West, on the other hand, "in thrall to novelty and innovation, could hardly hope for longevity." @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-featur…

@godslacky @BookendsCarl Hope you enjoy!

@TimParksauthor Brilliant all ordered with the help of @BookendsCarl. Can't wait to read it !

For anyone interested in preordering... almabooks.com/product/across…

“I am amazed to know”, John Updike complained to his copy editor, Ann Goldstein, “that The NYer prefers ‘a hundred’ to ‘one hundred.’” @thetls the-tls.com/regular-featur…

Should we wish for more of the same? In books, in life? Seventy-five Maigrets, eighty-two Perry Masons, forty-five Discworlds, thirty-three Poirots, seven Harry Potters... @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-featur…

Many thanks to @almabooks for this very smart edition. Lovely maps, a great production job...

The whole story of The Cat seems to cry out for Maigret, a wise, healthy, authoritative man who appreciates women but is reassuringly uxorious, who drinks but is never drunk, who engages in life’s conflicts simply to set things right and depart. @TheTLS the-tls.com/literature-by-…

Georges Simenon was a connoisseur of the mute challenge, the silent, paralysed conflict that can only end badly. @TheTLS the-tls.com/literature-by-…

Bianciardi’s letters are fascinating because they register the growing disillusionment of a man who had invested everything in disseminating culture.

@slovak_football Just too bad about the result...☹️

Hellas Verona vs Torino 0-3. Very happy to have drunk in the legendary Zanzibar - got to know it through the @TimParksauthor famous book about Verona. Something off my bucket list!