An esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace of "Elegy for Iris" and the wry irreverence of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Now in her ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both old and new conventions" ("Literary Review") and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old--the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by "remarkable intelligence... and the] easy elegance of her prose" ("Daily Telegraph"), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" ("Sunday Telegraph") presents an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish in their later years.

<i>Danae: </i> Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, the king of Argos, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone in a remote fishing village. It's a harsh new world for a young woman who grew up as a coddled princess, and forging a new life for herself and for her young son Perseus will be the hardest thing she's ever done.<br /><br /><i>Medusa: </i> As a member of a reclusive band of women who live deep in the woods, known as the Gorgons, Medusa has eschewed all contact with the outside world. That is, until the day she finds an injured boy named Perseus in the forest.<br /><br /><i>Andromeda: </i> When a harsh sandstorm threatens to destroy her nomadic desert tribe's way of life, Andromeda knows that a sacrifice will be required to appease the gods and end the storm. But when a forceful young Perseus interferes, Andromeda's life is set on an entirely new path.<br /><br />As Perseus becomes increasingly obsessed with the promise of his own destiny, his heroic journey casts a shadow of violence and destruction across all three women's lives. But even as he tries to silence them, the women may find that reclaiming their voices is their only hope for lifting themselves into a better future.<br /><br /><b>Nationally bestselling author of <i>Daughters of Sparta</i> Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version--his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda--but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.</b>

<b>Critically acclaimed author Cat Sebastian makes her trade paperback debut in a stunning historical romance about a reluctantly reformed highwayman and the aristocrat who threatens to steal his heart.</b><br /><br />Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him pine for the heady rush of thievery. When a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop, Kit quickly realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this highborn man desires.<br /><br />In order to save himself and a beloved friend, Percy, Lord Holland must go against every gentlemanly behavior he holds dear to gain what he needs most: a book that once belonged to his mother, a book his father never lets out of his sight and could be Percy’s savior. More comfortable in silk-filled ballrooms than coffee shops frequented by criminals, his attempts to hire the roughly hewn highwayman, formerly known as Gladhand Jack, proves equal parts frustrating and electrifying.<br /><br />Kit refuses to participate in the robbery but agrees to teach Percy how to do the deed. Percy knows he has little choice but to submit and as the lessons in thievery begin, he discovers thievery isn’t the only crime he’s desperate to commit with Kit.<br /><br />But when their careful plan goes dangerously wrong and shocking revelations threaten to tear them apart, can these stolen hearts withstand the impediments in their path?

"An engrossing tale that provides plenty of food for thought" (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.
The long-awaited and beguiling second novel from Alain de Botton that tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership, from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. De Botton's essay "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" (The New York Times, May 28, 2016), which draws from The Course of Love, was the #1 most emailed article for days.
We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. You experience, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading.
This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term. The result is a sensory experience—fictional, philosophical, psychological—that urges us to identify deeply with these characters and to reflect on his and her own experiences in love. Fresh, visceral, and utterly compelling, The Course of Love is a provocative and life-affirming novel for everyone who believes in love.

Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, In Between the Sheets is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.

Three stories and two poems written and read by the author.<br />01. Daughter of Owls<br />02. Instructions<br />03. The Price<br />04. The Sea Change<br />05. The Facts In The Case of The Departure Of Miss Finch

From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.
It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.

A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023 An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith's lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman. Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It's 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell's 1984. All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia. Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.

<p>After the first forty days we were alone,' writes Churchill.This edition is Churchill's own abridgement of his original ix-volume history of the Second World War.</p>

　英国TNT剧院《大卫·科波菲尔》是19世纪英国批判现实主义大师狄更斯的代表作，通过主人公一生悲欢离合揭示了英国维多利亚盛世美丽帷幕后的社会真相。在这部具有强烈自传色彩的小说里，狄更斯回顾和总结了自己的生活道路，娓娓道来其人生哲学和道德理想。故事结构曲折生动，情节跌宕起伏，狄氏联珠妙语随处可见，评论家认为其艺术成就超过了狄更斯所有其它作品。继改编狄更斯《雾都孤儿》和《圣诞颂歌》大获成功后，英国TNT 剧院再次将《大卫·科波菲尔》搬上舞台，从2011 年11 月开始其拉脱维亚、爱沙尼亚、比利时、瑞士、德国、中国的世界巡演之旅。

一个古老的传说。莎士比亚悲剧的巅峰之作。
　　王被浮夸的辞藻蒙蔽了心灵，邪恶的女儿们得到了王国与财富，唯独诚实的小女儿郁郁远嫁。当她们曾经的信誓旦旦转眼之间化为不屑与厌恶时，王不得不流落荒野，在风雨交加中明白了何谓真情。只是，他已然疯了。善良的小女儿乔装回到父亲身边，以爱与宽恕唤回了父亲缥缈的理智。一场关乎手足、计谋、背叛的战争爆发了。女儿们一个个死去。黑暗中，王抱着小女儿的尸体，仰天大恸……
　　此剧由多位英美职业话剧演员加盟。他们在莎剧演出方面具有极为丰富的经验，代表了英美话剧表演的较高水平。其中格雷夫斯、麦可当纳德和迈克菲勒密已在英美话剧界活跃三十多年，熟悉并演出过每一部莎翁剧作，饰演过一百多个莎剧角色。奥考奈尔则为美国青年话剧演员中的佼佼者。四人的鼎力加盟不仅大大提升了此次制作的艺术水准，并为国内外莎剧表导演的交流提供一个良好契机。
　　美国纽约的雪城大学戏剧系六位毕业班学生也受邀参加此次演出，与北京大学外国戏剧与电影研究所的六位学生在剧中共同饰演角色，届时将分别登台亮相，为此剧注入不同的中西表演特色与理解。

《糊涂戏班》是英国作家Michael FRAYN的三幕闹剧作品。讲述的是一个糊涂剧团排演《无中生有》的故事：第一幕时剧团在为巡回演出前作最后的彩排，场面一片混乱；第二幕是演出的后台，演员大闹意见，台后意外不断发生，造成演出无法正常进行；在最后一幕，演出中乱子层出不穷，眼见演出瞬即崩溃，演员纷纷试图挽救演出。

这是一场为庆祝音乐剧《剧院魅影》成功上演25周年的音乐会，地点在英国伦敦的皇家阿尔伯特大厅（Royal Albert Hall）。活动于2011年10月1日晚、次日下午和晚上，一共进行了3场声势浩大的演出，为到场的音乐剧迷们奉献了一次震撼人心的视听盛宴。演出同时，其实况录像也在英美的大银幕上映。
阵容方面，伊朗裔加拿大音乐剧男演员Ramin Karimloo领衔主演男主角幽灵（The Phantom），美国音乐剧女演员Sierra Boggess饰演女主角克里斯蒂（Christine Daaé）。两人在韦伯2010年的一部作为《剧院魅影》续集的新剧《魅影：爱无止尽》（Love Never Dies）中，曾联袂合作，是《Love Never Dies》伦敦首演版的男女主角。而在此之前，Ramin Karimloo曾在07至09年《剧院魅影》伦敦版剧组扮演幽灵；而Sierra Boggess是《魅影》拉斯维加斯首演版的Christine，因此二人虽然早已对各自的角色驾轻就熟，而且有过合作经历，但这3场音乐会之前还不曾同台演绎过这部韦伯的经典名剧。演出最后，来自世界各地的《魅影》原创艺术家们一同上台，庆祝他们为之奉献的舞台经典。
音乐剧《剧院魅影》（The Phantom of The Opera）由安德鲁•劳埃德•韦伯（Andrew Lloyd Webber）作曲创作，改编自法国小说家Gaston Leroux的同名小说,被认为是音乐剧的一部撼世之作。该剧自1986年在伦敦西区首演以来，长盛不衰，成为伦敦西区第二长寿的音乐剧（在伦敦目前仅次于《悲惨世界》）。在美国纽约百老汇，该剧的纽约制作版自1988年上演至今，于2006年打破了由《猫》创造的连演纪录，成为了百老汇历史上最长寿的音乐剧。2004年，由乔尔•舒马赫导演的电影版本上映。在世界范围内，该剧取得了近60多项主要的戏剧奖项。截止到2011年，已在全球27个国家、145个城市上演过，发行过不同语言、不同制作版本的唱片。2004年，该剧第一次与中国大陆观众见面，当时的亚洲巡演制作版剧组，在上海大剧院连演近百场，轰动申城的文艺界，成为上海年度文化盛事之一。25年来，《剧院魅影》累计票房收入超过到32亿，压倒任何一部电影作品。目前该剧的英语剧组版本在伦敦、纽约、拉斯维加斯三地常驻当地剧院演出。
关于这部戏的创作团队，金牌戏剧制作人卡梅隆•麦金托什（Cameron Mackintosh）是该剧从早期创作、上演到现如今运营的制作人，Charles Hart和Richard Stilgoe作词，舞台版总导演是著名舞台剧导演Harold Prince。