'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy My Battle of Hastings is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history. In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could spend time writing away from her domestic duties in London. As Russia in...(展开全部)

'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy My Battle of Hastings is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history. In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could spend time writing away from her domestic duties in London. As Russia in...(展开全部)

马丁·西克史密斯，1954年9月24日出生于英国英格兰西部的柴郡，就读过牛津大学、列宁格勒大学、巴黎大学。1980-1997年作为BBC通讯记者到过莫斯科、华盛顿、布鲁塞尔、日内瓦以及华沙实地采访。1997-2002年在英国政府工作，做公关总监。他写过的纪实类书有《普京的石油：尤科斯事务和为俄国而战》《利特维年科事件：预知死亡的真实故事》《莫斯科政变：苏联体制的终结》。

作者谢利·瓦克斯曼，美国得克萨斯农工大学圣经考古学教授，圣经考古与水下考古领域专家。 译者曹明玉，博士，大连大学历史学院讲师，主要研究方向为世界古代史、古代近东史，发表论文多篇、译著多部。

'By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes.' MACBETH When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talks about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence f...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 厄恩利·布拉德福德（Ernle Bradford，1922—1986）是著名的英国历史学家，专精地中海和海军方面主题。布拉德福德曾是一名水手，扬帆泛舟于地中海上近30年。第二次世界大战期间在皇家海军服役，后以驱逐舰副舰长的身份退役。他在马耳他寓居多年，供职于BBC，还是一名杂志编辑。著有《大围攻：马耳他1565》（The Great Siege: Malta 1565）、《克里斯托弗·哥伦布》（Christopher Columbus）、《汉尼拔》（Hannibal）、《尤利乌斯·凯撒：权力的追逐》（Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power）等书。 【译者简介】 杨春景，清华大学法学博士，主要关注领域为国际法、国际关系史和国际贸易，译有《建筑涌现：自然和文明形态之进化》、《次终极追问：科学与宗教的纠葛》等著...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as we...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)

"Refugee", I said, pointing at my chest. "Asylum". When Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport late one afternoon, he has a badly faked passport and exhibits no knowledge of English beyond these two words. He was once a furniture shop owner, a husband, and a father. Now he has arrived in England seeking asylum from his native Zanzibar, using silence and claiming ignorance as his...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)