A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince ...(展开全部)

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prin...(展开全部)

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ......(展开全部)

A Maiden… Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by ...(展开全部)

This is the much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. "The next Hunger Games". (The Sunday Times). "Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ...one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World". (Daily Express). In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the cha...(展开全部)

休•豪伊　Hugh Howey 一九七五年生于美国，深爱海洋，热爱读书和写作。他是得奖作品《莫莉•菲黛传奇》的作者，也就是他创造了超级畅销书《羊毛战记》系列作品。 二〇一一年夏天，他自助出版电子书《羊毛战记》，在网络上一炮而红，引爆读者狂热口碑，迅速窜上亚马逊电子书总榜第一位。随即《羊毛战记》的风潮蔓延至全球各国。各国图书版权纷纷售出。《异形》导演雷德利•斯科特一举收下电影版权，携手《辛德勒的名单》编剧史蒂夫•柴里安联手打造这部科幻史诗巨片。 休•豪伊和妻子在佛州的朱庇特岛生活，养了一条叫贝拉的狗。当他不在写作的时候，就在阅读或是拍照。

休•豪伊　Hugh Howey 一九七五年生于美国，深爱海洋，热爱读书和写作。他是得奖作品《莫莉•菲黛传奇》的作者，也就是他创造了超级畅销书《羊毛战记》系列作品。 二〇一一年夏天，他自助出版电子书《羊毛战记》，在网络上一炮而红，引爆读者狂热口碑，迅速窜上亚马逊电子书总榜第一位。随即《羊毛战记》的风潮蔓延至全球各国。各国图书版权纷纷售出。《异形》导演雷德利•斯科特一举收下电影版权，携手《辛德勒的名单》编剧史蒂夫•柴里安联手打造这部科幻史诗巨片。 休•豪伊和妻子在佛州的朱庇特岛生活，养了一条叫贝拉的狗。当他不在写作的时候，就在阅读或是拍照。

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator...(展开全部)

In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth century, with which ...(展开全部)

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.