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)

美国希腊裔作家，1960年4月13日出生于美国底特律。 祖父母是从小亚细亚来的希腊移民。曾就读于美国著名私立大学布朗大学，并于1986年在斯坦福大学获得英语及创作专业硕士学位。1993年发表了首部长篇《处女自杀》，这部引人入胜的小说介绍了密执安州格罗斯角上五个神秘姐妹以及那些命运被她们永远改变的男孩子们的故事。书一上市就好评如潮，成为畅销书，荣获1993年怀汀奖以及同年美国艺术协会年度风云书，并由著名导演科波拉之女索菲娅•科波拉搬上银幕。《中性》（Middlesex）出版于2002年，是他用九年时间创作的第二本小说，获得了2003年度普利策文学奖。作者以遗传学理论为基础，故事开始是女身最终变成男身的叙述者讲述了一个希腊裔家族历史遭遇的传奇故事。这位雌雄同体的叙事者也象征了美国移民身份的无奈。此书获选《洛杉矶时报》、《芝加哥论坛报》、《纽约时报书评》、...(展开全部)