From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart. The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under―but rather than face the music, he’s spending his days in the woods, bu...(展开全部)

A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amongst the secret places hidden right under our noses: the abandoned industrial estates where great crested newts roam; or the rewilded estate at Knepp Castle, where, with the aid of some hairy, bluebell-eating Tamworth pigs, nightingale song has been heard for the f...(展开全部)

A hunt for the most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from the Salisbury plains to the Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumblebees in the Hebrides or chasing orchid bees through the Ecuadorian jungle, Dave Goulson’s wit, humour and deep love of nature make him the ideal travelling companion. This utterly charming book will also inspi...(展开全部)

Two women competing for a man's heart Two queens fighting to the death for dominance The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Sco...(展开全部)

Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" ("USA Today") Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Phili...(展开全部)

Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" ("USA Today") Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Phili...(展开全部)

Two women competing for a man's heart Two queens fighting to the death for dominance The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Sco...(展开全部)

Chantal THOMAS 法國國家科學研究中心研究員，傑出的十八世紀思想史專家，其關於薩德（Sade）、瑪麗·安托奈特以及十八世紀自由精神的學術著作最為知名，經常受邀在耶魯，普林斯頓等歐美名校講學。 深受早年師從羅蘭巴特的影響，她的學術著作跨越史學、哲學及社會學的界線，如 Comment supporter sa liberté （自由怎堪消受）、Un air de liberté （自由之風）及2016年出版的Pour Roland Barthes （致羅蘭巴特）等作品，都在含蓄的文字中具有詩性的韻味，細膩的描繪中處處顯露思辯。 香塔勒·托瑪同時是位作家，從散文，劇作到小說，創作了許多膾炙人口的作品。她的第一部小說《再見吾后》是以王后朗讀官第一人稱自述的小說，讀者藉由她愛戀的眼神，凝望了法國最後的王后瑪麗·安托奈特，也目睹了巴士底監獄被攻陷之後...(展开全部)

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart . . . The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a re...(展开全部)

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart . . . The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a re...(展开全部)