Calm
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  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872595
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

Calm

Vintage Minis

  • Tim Parks
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5 Nov 2015
Paperback
29 May 2017
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Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks – lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great mysteries of our time – how to survive in this modern age.

Selected from the book Teach us to Sit Still by Tim Parks

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Swimming by Roger Deakin
Motherhood by Helen Simpson
Work by Joseph Heller
Liberty by Virginia Woolf
  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872595
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99
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Psychedelics
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Motherhood
Helen Simpson
Summer
Laurie Lee
Work
Joseph Heller
Jealousy
Marcel Proust
Fatherhood
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Death
Julian Barnes
Depression
William Styron
Calm
Tim Parks
Babies
Anne Enright
Sisters
Louisa May Alcott
Eating
Nigella Lawson
Desire
Haruki Murakami
Drinking
John Cheever
Language
Xiaolu Guo
Liberty
Virginia Woolf
Home
Salman Rushdie
Race
Toni Morrison
Love
Jeanette Winterson
Swimming
Roger Deakin
Freedom
Margaret Atwood
Marriage
Jane Austen
Friendship
Rose Tremain
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis
War
Sebastian Faulks
Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Rave
Irvine Welsh
Money
Yuval Noah Harari
Injustice
Richard Wright
Ghosts
M. R. James

Praise for Calm

Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh; it made me cry; and it made me seriously think about taking up Vispassana meditation

Will Self, The Times

Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book.

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