Best Sellers Rank:
#1 Best Seller in Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism (Books)
#4 in Literary Criticism & Theory
#7 in Essays (Books)
卖点：
玛丽·比尔德（Mary Beard）是一位广受欢迎的作家，她的作品已经销售超过130万册，包括《SPQR》（57万册），《女性与权力》（Women & Power，27.5万册），《罗马皇帝》（Emperor of Rome，15.5万册）。
比尔德与媒体和学术界有着密切的联系。她于2025年8月与夏洛特·希金斯（Charlotte Higgins）一起推出了她的全新播客节目《即时经典》（INSTANT CLASSICS）。
市场推广：
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l Always Take Notes podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mary-beard-on-the-odyssey-gladiator-2-and-why/id1224996246?i=1000752827764
l Preview event: Sat 14 March Words by the Water event Keswick with Raph
Cormack
l Buzz magazine (South Wales arts mag) interview Face-to-face with
the past: TV classicist Mary Beard interviewed
l Sunday Times magazine interview to run 5 April Mary Beard: ‘I’ve
annoyed people. It comes with the territory’
l Ipaper April highlights The best new books
to read in April 2026
l Irish Times Mary
Beard: ‘What are historians in the future going to find weird about us?’ – The
Irish Times
l The Observer ‘The Walk’ interview 12 April Mary Beard: ‘If you
could be buried somewhere like this f...
l Express interview Mary Beard says
history of the ancient world is a 'good place' for perspective | Books |
Entertainment | Express.co.uk
l BBC One LK Today Sunday 12 April YouTube
l The Times review Mary Beard’s Rome
is like a 1st-century EastEnders
l Classics for all https://classicsforall.org.uk/reading-room/book-reviews/talking-classics-shock-old-mary-beard
l Radio Times interview www.radiotimes.com/books/mary-beard-talking-classics-the-shock-of-the-old-interview/
l Radio Oldie interview https://www.theoldie.co.uk/podcasts/mary-beard-in-conversation-with-harry-mount
To come:
l Sky breakfast (16 April)
l ‘Long read’ interview, The Herald (Scotland)
l History hit podcast with Dan Snow broadcast on publication
l BBC History magazine podcast interview 17 April
l BBC History magazine print interview (May issue, on sale 16 April)
l Classical Wisdom interview
l Saga magazine interview May issue
l Reviews: Irish Times, Tablet, Economist, Press Association, Western Mail,
Observer, Spectator, FT
l RTE Arena interview (Ireland) to run on publication
l BBC Radio 4 Start the Week, 20 April
l Iain Dale podcast interview recording 16 April
l ‘Five books’ feature, Inews
l New Statesman New Society podcast interview recording 20 April
And I leave you with the delightful
Waterstones Nottingham who employed one of our 4ft Aphrodite standees as a
bookseller for the day. You can see their brilliant Instagram post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXJuKI3Dd79/
