In the book, Sheila divorces a husband and forms a fast, intense friendship with a painter named Margaux. Female companionship is a strange experiment for both women, who heretofore related predominantly to men, despite being frustrated by their paternalism. The women’s days are spent talking about art, while Sheila avoids working on a play commissioned by a feminist theatre co...(展开全部)

加里·考克斯 Gary Cox，英国哲学家，在英国伯明翰大学获得哲学博士学位，同时，他也是伯明翰大学的名誉研究员。考克斯是萨特、存在主义和一些普及类的哲学书的作者。他的著作包括《如何成为一名存在主义者》（How to Be an Existentialist，2010）《做哲学》（How To Be a Philosopher，2010）和《上帝的困惑》（The God Confusion，2013）等。

Do life's big questions perplex you? This book will give you answers to some of them while revealing that others have no answer. A humorous but informed instruction manual to questions philosophers have been asking and attempting to answer for centuries, How to Be A Philosopher will help you: Think, talk, argue and persuade like a philosopher, win every agument by tying peopl...(展开全部)

We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? Catch the omnibus to work and wash laundry while wearing a corset? How To Be A Victorian is a new approach to history, a ...(展开全部)

A delightful tour through the intimate details of life in Victorian England, told by a historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this cha...(展开全部)

西蒙·巴恩斯（Simon Barnes） 《泰晤士报》屡获殊荣的首席体育记者，周末版生态环境与野生动物专栏作者。小说家、自然写作者、马术师。出版有《聆听：与一只鸟相遇的最好方式》《运动的意义》等多部畅销作品。《星期日电讯报》评价他：“巴恩斯是一种独一无二的声音，总想挑战传统观念，寻求更为深层的意义。”

西蒙·巴恩斯（Simon Barnes） 《泰晤士报》屡获殊荣的首席体育记者，周末版生态环境与野生动物专栏作者。小说家、自然写作者、马术师。出版有《聆听：与一只鸟相遇的最好方式》《运动的意义》等多部畅销作品。《星期日电讯报》评价他：“巴恩斯是一种独一无二的声音，总想挑战传统观念，寻求更为深层的意义。”

【作者简介】 阿莉·史密斯|Ali Smith 1962年生于苏格兰因弗内斯，现居住在剑桥。 她曾四次入围布克奖，两次入围百利女性小说奖，并在2015年凭借《双面人生》获得该奖，同时，《双面人生》还斩获了首届金匠奖和科斯塔文学奖。 2017年，《秋》入围布克奖短名单，登上当年《纽约时报》“十大好书”榜首，并在《卫报》于2019年评选出的“二十一世纪百佳图书”榜单中位列第八名。 她的笔触极具辨识度，外柔内刚，细腻中带着潮湿感，如同弥漫在伦敦上空的淡淡水雾，却又饱含着对民族和政治的深刻反思，仿佛一颗埋在柔软泥土中的胡桃，坚硬而温存。