The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. Queen Victoria simultaneously managed ...(展开全部)

蒂姆·克莱顿（Tim Clayton）毕业于剑桥大学，是英国华威大学的副研究员和古文物学会的成员。他写过多本军事史著作，比如《海狼：第二次世界大战中英国潜水艇精彩绝伦的故事》（Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of B ritain's WW2 Submarines）和《海员：使大不列颠统治海洋的人》（Tars: The Men Who Made Britannia Rule the Waves）。他是畅销书作者，曾获得 2008 年度英国海事基金会蒙巴顿奖等奖项。

Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black? She was also a passionate young princess who loved dancing. And there is also a third Victoria, the brilliant queen, one who invented a new role for the monarchy. Victoria found a way of ruling when people were deeply uncomfortable with having a woman on the throne. Her image as ...(展开全部)

From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as 'Brandy Nan'. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life. Born in May 1819, Victoria came 'as plump as a partridge'. In her early years she ...(展开全部)

历史学家、厨师、广播节目主持人和作家，专攻公元1600年至今的英国食物史，不止在图书馆，也在厨房进行她的研究。她曾任职于奥德莉庄园厨房等历史悠久的厨房，并在全英各地授课。她主持了包括英国广播公司（BBC）《维多利亚烘焙师》（Victorian Bakers）在内的历史纪实节目，并出现在英国广播公司第四广播电台（BBC Radio 4）的《厨房橱柜》（The Kitchen Cabinet）节目中。现居东安格利亚（East Anglia）。

Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world. Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the conflicted meaning...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory vigour - of Moser's biography... a triumph of the virtues of seriousness and truth-telling that Susan Sontag espoused' New State...(展开全部)

Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world. Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the conflicted meaning...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory vigour - of Moser's biography... a triumph of the virtues of seriousness and truth-telling that Susan Sontag espoused' New State...(展开全部)

Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ende...(展开全部)