The Lodger》一書在英國亞馬遜網路書店讀者評鑑五顆星，擠進英國各大書店暢銷排行榜，本週晉升英國亞馬遜網路書店文史類暢銷書第2名。

One Mr Shakespeare that lay in the house.......

1612年，莎士比亞在西敏寺的一間教堂公開提到自己曾寄宿在「銀街」（Sliver Street）的日子，這是莎翁生前唯一一段被紀錄下來的談話。紀錄裡提到：八年前，莎翁寄宿在一家子從法國移民到英國倫敦的家裡。住在這裡的期間，他完成了三部膾炙人口的劇作──《李爾王》（Othello）、《終成眷屬》（King Lear）和《一報還一報》（Measure for Measure）。

本書作者，也是得獎作家Charles Nicholl不僅挖掘到莎翁那段寄宿生活，也談論到莎翁與作者和妓院管理人George Wilkins兩人當年的合作。他以文學性的偵查筆調，探究莎翁那段罕少被人提及的生活，是一部關於莎翁生前故事最具新穎和獨創的書。

 

Charles Nicholl is a historian, biographer and travel writer. His book include The Reckoning (winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography and the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Gold Dagger’ award for non-fiction), A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe, Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Natural Portrait Gallery insights series) and Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize). His most recent book was the acclaimed biography Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States.