A thrilling true crime account of the scandalous private life of Jeremy Thorpe, the British MP whose covert homosexual affair led to blackmail, cover ups, a hired hitman, and ended with the “Trial of the Century." As a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad behavior snuck under the radar for years. Police and politicians ...(展开全部)

约翰•普雷斯顿，著名英国记者、作家，曾是《星期日电讯报》的艺术编辑和电视评论人，现居伦敦。普雷斯顿的作品涉及非虚构和小说作品，其中小说主要有Ghosting（1996）、Ink（1999）、Kings of the Roundhouse(2006)以及被改编为电影，由拉尔夫•费因斯、凯瑞•穆里根主演、于2021年Netflix上档的《发掘》（The Dig）。2020年最新出版了非虚构作品《堕落：罗伯特•马克斯韦的秘密》（Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwel），获得2021年科斯塔传记奖，还入围了英国最具盛名的非虚构文学奖巴美列•捷福奖短名单。

John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers. He is the author of a travel book and four novels. His most recent novel, The Dig, was published to great acclaim in 2007.

约翰•普雷斯顿，著名英国记者、作家，曾是《星期日电讯报》的艺术编辑和电视评论人，现居伦敦。普雷斯顿的作品涉及非虚构和小说作品，其中小说主要有Ghosting（1996）、Ink（1999）、Kings of the Roundhouse(2006)以及被改编为电影，由拉尔夫•费因斯、凯瑞•穆里根主演、于2021年Netflix上档的《发掘》（The Dig）。2020年最新出版了非虚构作品《堕落：罗伯特•马克斯韦的秘密》（Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwel），获得2021年科斯塔传记奖，还入围了英国最具盛名的非虚构文学奖巴美列•捷福奖短名单。

Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t writte...(展开全部)

Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t writte...(展开全部)

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary--and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collec...(展开全部)

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary--and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collec...(展开全部)

In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the ‘perfectÂ’ murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boysÂ’ weeklies to naughty seaside postcards. Throughout history, some books have changed the worl...(展开全部)

贝基·库珀（Becky Cooper），曾是《纽约客》编辑部成员，也是布兰迪斯大学舒斯特调查研究所的高级研究员。本书的写作得到了调查性新闻基金和国际妇女媒体基金会霍华德·G. 巴菲特女记者基金的支持。