菲利普·瑞弗（Philip Reeve） 1966年出生于英国的布莱顿，紧邻伦敦的一个美丽的海滨城市。那里冬天寒冷得像童话世界，夏天美得像天堂。 他先后在剑桥艺术和技术学院以及布赖顿理工学院学习插图。他在书店工作多年，因为作恐怖历史小说的插图而略有名气。没人相信他从五岁就开始写作，而立之年才大器晚成，终于凭青少年文学处女作《致命引擎》（Mortal Engines）一书，征服了挑剔的英国编辑和读者，走红英伦。

In "A Darkling Plain", Philip Reeve brilliantly completes the breath-taking adventures that began with "Mortal Engines". Wren Natsworthy is enjoying life as an aviatrix but her father Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal's bullet. Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Tr...(展开全部)

This is an extraordinary fiction from a brilliant author...It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal...(展开全部)

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lems fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.

London is hunting The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus V...(展开全部)

Quartet, Jean Rhys’s first novel, launched her literary career in the late 1920s, and today remains an incisive, sinister tale of love and obsession. After her husband, Stephan, is arrested, Marya finds herself destitute in Paris. With nowhere else to turn, she accepts the hospitality of an English couple living on the fringes of the artistic world. Yet as Marya is drawn inexor...(展开全部)

韩素音(1916— )，本名周光瑚，著名英籍华人女作家。先后在燕京大学、比利时布鲁塞尔大学就读。一生致力于中国和西方世界的沟通与理解。作品有自传《伤残的树》《凋谢的花朵》《无鸟的夏天》《吾宅双门》《再生凤凰》，小说《瑰宝》《青山青》《等到早晨来临》，传记《周恩来与他的世纪》《早晨的洪流：毛泽东与中国革命》等。自传体小说《瑰宝》奠定了韩素音在国际文坛上的地位，1956年，据此改编的电影Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing获得了三项奥斯卡奖。

Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, Quartet is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her l...(展开全部)

Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is ta...(展开全部)

韩素音(1916— )，本名周光瑚，著名英籍华人女作家。先后在燕京大学、比利时布鲁塞尔大学就读。一生致力于中国和西方世界的沟通与理解。作品有自传《伤残的树》《凋谢的花朵》《无鸟的夏天》《吾宅双门》《再生凤凰》，小说《瑰宝》《青山青》《等到早晨来临》，传记《周恩来与他的世纪》《早晨的洪流：毛泽东与中国革命》等。自传体小说《瑰宝》奠定了韩素音在国际文坛上的地位，1956年，据此改编的电影Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing获得了三项奥斯卡奖。