阿兰·德波顿1969年生于瑞士，12岁时全家人移居伦敦。18岁入剑桥大学。他徜徉于文学、艺术、美学、哲学、心理分析之间，上下古今求索，从中邂逅知音，产生共鸣，在跨越千年的著作家那里欣然找到先得我心之感，逐步接近了自己的目标。大学只不过提供他一个读书的氛围；而读书只是帮他找到自己独特的创作模式。所以，他不愿把他的写作归入任何一类：小说、历史、哲学……最多能称之为“随笔”，以个人的声音谈人生的重大题材。 德波顿在各种报刊杂志发表的文章很多，23岁开始出版第一部作品。但他写小说力求打破讲故事和表现情景的传统模式，希望探索的是情景背后的所以然，要弄明白各种人际关系后面的动力是什么。他最喜爱的、能引起共鸣的作家之一是普鲁斯特。他的第四部著作：《拥抱逝水年华》是从文学通向哲学的桥梁，这本书使他名声大噪。由此引出下一部：《哲学的慰籍》。如果说他的小说是寓哲学探索于...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization. Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world—from o...(展开全部)

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribu...(展开全部)

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Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribu...(展开全部)

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribu...(展开全部)

作者简介 肖恩•白塞尔（Shaun Bythell）是苏格兰最大的二手书店、一家名叫“书店”的书店的店主，他也是威格敦图书节（Wigtown Book Festival）的组织者之一。《书店日记》是肖恩的第一部作品。 . 译者简介 顾真，编辑、译者。译有《小夜曲》《眼泪的化学》《长眠不醒》《湖底女人》等作品。兼作随笔、评论，以笔名“迤逦鸦”为《澎湃•上海书评》撰写专栏，其他文章散见于《南方都市报》《书城》《外国文艺》等。

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. S...(展开全部)

The French bestseller The Diary of a Nose is the story behind the creation of a perfume, from the head perfumer at Hermès. Perfume creation is an exclusive and secretive endeavour. What is day to day life like for a perfume-maker? How does the creation of a new scent begin? How do you capture the essence of a smell on the skin? For one year, Jean-Claude Ellena kept a diary of h...(展开全部)

An intimate exploration of inspiration and creativity, from the "parfumeur exclusif" of the house of Hermès. A scent has incantatory powers, capable of transporting you to your past, of kindling fantasies, of creating a vivid mise en scène—literally out of thin air. In the hands of the truly great, perfume creation is a kind of alchemy. Where does inspiration for this visceral...(展开全部)