The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior – an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the ‘scandalous girl’ of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived through, feeling both ageless and closer to death. Laid like a palimpsest on the present, the past’s immediacy pushes her to take...(展开全部)

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior – an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the ‘scandalous girl’ of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived through, feeling both ageless and closer to death. Laid like a palimpsest on the present, the past’s immediacy pushes her to take...(展开全部)

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）。

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）。

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)