塞尔日·布鲁梭罗是一位相当多产的侦探和科幻小说家，他生于1951年，从80年代起便以荒诞诡异的风格奠定了自己在法国文坛的独特地位。他的作品充盈着奔放不羁的想象力，游弋于现实于梦幻之间，成功地营造出波诡云谲、光怪陆离的艺术氛围，由此赢得了广大读者的喜爱，并荣膺多个文学奖项。 布鲁梭罗尤其擅长通过对真实生活的夸张变形，揭示出隐藏在现实背后的荒谬和悲哀。无论在《猎梦人》、《投弹手的一夜》，还是《与亡灵共舞》中，他都将这一风格展现得淋漓尽致。

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

""I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known...and I will be Queen of England.""Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was pushed off her throne by Anne Boleyn, here is a Katherine the world has forgotten: the enchant...(展开全部)

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to keep tabs on individual human keepers, raid neighbori...(展开全部)

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to keep tabs on individual human keepers, raid neighbori...(展开全部)

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experience...(展开全部)

媒體推薦 人類無法逃脫他必須承受的命運安排，Max Morden在生命中的十字路口，他必須把他混亂生活理出個頭緒，他罹患癌症的太太剛剛過世，他想逃離現實生活中面對的失落，卻回到當年受到創傷的所在。他回到的他還是小男孩時生活的海邊小鎮，他記得當時Grace家庭的雙胞胎Myles與Chloe。不過在Max Morden試著重新在此地展開新生活的同時，卻又陷入與雙胞胎的奇怪關係。John Banville以《The Sea》以一位年過五旬的中年男子的心態，討論懷鄉的渴望與對於記憶的冥思，討論人面對的死亡與記憶，Banville優美的文字與嚴謹的風格架構讓該書在傳媒界一致認為是文字藝術的臻品，《The Sea》入圍了今年的英國布克獎，可說是呼聲相當高的一部作品。 【94年11月好讀推薦】二○○五年布克獎得主 John Banville，儘管在初審時擊退伊恩．...(展开全部)

威廉·戈德曼（William Goldman, 1931–2018） 美国小说家、剧作家、电影编剧。出生于芝加哥，毕业于哥伦比亚大学英文系，二十六岁时出版了第一部小说《金殿》，后来进入好莱坞，为电影撰写剧本，成为横跨小说和编剧两大领域的殿堂级人物，被作家肖恩·伊根称为“ 20世纪下半叶最受欢迎的说书人之一”。他的小说代表作包括《马拉松人》《公主新娘》等，编剧代表作包括《虎豹小霸王》《总统班底》《危情十日》等。 ———————— 刘勇军 资深英语译者，湖南邵东人，闲暇时读书、译书、写作，翻译出版过《霍比特人》《纳尼亚传奇》《月亮与六便士》等多部文学作品。

Historical novelist Philippa Gregory returns to Tudor England with this tale of the challenge-strewn life of the Spanish Infanta Catalina, who became Queen Katherine, Henry VIII's first wife. Originally married to Henry's older brother, Prince Arthur, she must honor her late husband's memory and deathbed wish by denying the truth of their passionate but short-lived love. By cla...(展开全部)

Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of her as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both rulers and warriors. Aged four, she is betrothed to Arth...(展开全部)