Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself, naturally enough, the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive. Her childhood homes, Charleston in Sussex and Gordon Square in London, were both centres of Bloomsbury activity, and she grew up ...(展开全部)

A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twel...(展开全部)

A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from the author of The Boy in the Dress and Mr Stink. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. But Joe isn't ha...(展开全部)

When we think of “locked room mysteries” we think of John Dickson Carr and his imitators, but back in 1941 Britain’s Rupert Penny penned one of the best and most satisfying impossible crimes ever crafted—SEALED ROOM MURDER. In the coziness of The Firs, an ugly yet stately mansion of a family of several generations, the matron is brutally stabbed in the back by someone staying a...(展开全部)

'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)

With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she took with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. She describes her resolve as a young gi...(展开全部)

作者介绍 【英】大卫·霍克尼，或许是我们这个时代ZUI被关注、ZUI受欢迎的艺术家之一。他的作品几乎涵盖一切媒介，从油画、素描、舞台设计直到摄影和版画印刷。而且他在这些媒介上都有所拓展。他是畅销著作《隐秘的知识——重新发现西方绘画大师的失传技艺》的作者，该书同样由浙江人民美术出版社引进、出版。 译者介绍 万木春，1972年出生于安徽，现为中国美术学院副教授、博士生导师，《新美术》主编。主要从事绘画史和绘画理论的教学研究了，著有《味水轩里的闲居者：万历末年嘉兴的书画世界》。他是大卫·霍克尼书系的长期译者，译笔明白晓畅，译有《隐秘的知识——重新发现西方绘画大师的失传技艺》《图画史——从洞穴石壁到电脑屏幕》《我的观看之道》等。

Young widow Simonetta tries to rebuild her family in 16th century Saronno, tuscany, following the death of her husband in one of the battles ravaging the land. In pursuit of a means to keep her estate together, she stumbles upon a new drink made by inffusing almonds with alcohol. At the same time, she encounters Bernadino, the protege of Leonardo da Vinci. What follows is a glo...(展开全部)

This autobiography of C.S.Lewis's early life, focusing on the spiritual crisis which was to determine the shape of his entire life, now repackaged and rebranded as a key title in the C.S. Lewis Signature Classics range. "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God!perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." Thus C.S. Lewis describes...(展开全部)

In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity. This book, together with his early diary All My Road Before Me, form the closest thing we have to an autobiography.