詹姆斯·里班克斯 James Rebanks，英格兰北部湖区放牧人，他的家族在当地的自有农场已有600余年历史。 詹姆斯自小在牧场长大，并坚信自己以后也会留在牧场工作。因为青少年时期的迷惘，他在阅读中找到了人生别样的方向，成功入读牛津大学。感受了城市生活的浮躁与动荡之 后，他重新回到家乡和家人一起，经营父辈留下的牧场。 Instagram @herdyshepherd1

Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. A Viking would understand the work ...(展开全部)

Phineas G. sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a “whole life” is hard to find. Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: bones and husks, boxes of marbles, collections of coins and undated postcards. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Phineas feels he is hunting shadows. Like a shaman flying across the globe, his mind tracks the journeys ...(展开全部)

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

马丁·莱瑟姆（Martin Latham） 马丁是一名从业达35年的书商，是英国水石书店（Waterstones）任职时间最长的经理。他拥有伦敦国王大学学院印度历史学博士学位，并在赫特福德大学（University of Hertfordshire）任教，之后转向图书销售。著有《肯特的奇闻轶事》（Kent’s Strangest Tales）、《伦敦都市》（Londonopolis）等，也是《牛津20世纪文学指南》（Oxford Guide to Twentieth Century Literature）的撰稿人。

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. The perfect present for those who like their beauty with a bit of bite. The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiatio...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)