希拉里•曼特尔出生于英国格罗索普市，于伦敦经济学院和谢菲尔德大学攻读法律。2009年、2012年凭借历史小说《狼厅》和《提堂》两次摘得布克奖。目前，“克伦威尔三部曲”系列的第三部《镜与光》正在创作中。曼特尔是首位两次获得布克奖的女性作家，此前只有J•M•库切和彼得•凯里两次获此殊荣。 1974年，希拉里•曼特尔开始了创作生涯。第一部小说《一个更安全的地方》重现了法国大革命的恢弘场面，获1992年《周日快报》年度小说奖。1995年《爱情实验》获霍桑登奖。2005年《黑暗深处》入围英联邦作家奖和橘子奖短名单。2003年出版了以童年生活为主题的短篇小说集《学说话》。迄今为止，希拉里•曼特尔已经出版十一部长篇小说、两部短篇小说集和一部自传。最新出版的作品是2014年的短篇小说集《暗杀》。2006年希拉里•曼特尔受封大英帝国司令勋章（CBE），2014年受封大...(展开全部)

One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel’s trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidel...(展开全部)

As Britain’s first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brought about the biggest social and political revolution in the nation’s post-war history. She achieved this largely by the driving force of her personality – a subject of endless speculation among both her friends and her foes. Jonathan Aitken has an insider’s view of Margaret Thatcher’s story. He is well qualified to ...(展开全部)

The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year. Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, t...(展开全部)

"That one was the most beautiful machine I had ever laid eyes on." In a world where humans are the minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The stories that Ibis speaks are of the "seven novels...(展开全部)

Tell me three good night stories, please, please, please, says Little Bear. Three!? says her mother. Yes--I said please three times! First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when it's bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhara who seeks the forest's most d...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 巴里 • 施特劳斯（Barry Strauss）是美国康奈尔大学历史与西洋古典学教授，古代军事史首屈一指的专家。他撰写或编辑了多部著作，如《萨拉米斯海战》《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯起义》。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 苏前辉，男，1959年 7月生，毕业于西南师范大学外语系，获文学学士学位，长期从事英国语言与文学教学工作，研究方向为世界历史与文化，曾赴英国利兹大学英语学院访学，现供职于云南财经大学国际语言文化学院。

◎ 作者简介 巴里 • 施特劳斯（Barry Strauss）是美国康奈尔大学历史与西洋古典学教授，古代军事史首屈一指的专家。他撰写或编辑了多部著作，如《萨拉米斯海战》《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯起义》。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 苏前辉，男，1959年 7月生，毕业于西南师范大学外语系，获文学学士学位，长期从事英国语言与文学教学工作，研究方向为世界历史与文化，曾赴英国利兹大学英语学院访学，现供职于云南财经大学国际语言文化学院。

Margaret Mee must rank as one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. She was an intrepid explorer of the Brazilian rainforest and an outstanding botanical artist, acclaimed by botanists and art critics worldwide. At the age of 47, Mee started exploring the Amazon in the footsteps of great British explorers such as Richard Spruce and Henry Walter Bates travelling...(展开全部)

This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of...(展开全部)