Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. "An Unsuitabl...(展开全部)

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two years old, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required ti delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it i...(展开全部)

P.D.詹姆斯 （P.D.James，1920-2014） 英国作家，她在英文世界享有极高的声誉，被誉为“当代推理小说女王”。自其创作以来，获奖无数，其中包括推理小说界的两个最高奖项——“钻石匕首奖”和“大师奖”。她是为数不多的同时拿下两项大奖的作家之一。此外，她也是继柯南•道尔、阿加莎• 克里斯蒂后，被请进“国际犯罪小说名人堂”的第三位作家。 她一生写了20本书，创造了亚当•达格利什和科迪莉亚• 格雷两个著名人物，其中达格利什是与夏洛克• 福尔摩斯齐名的大侦探，科迪莉亚• 格雷是推理小说史上著名的女侦探，并启发了许多作品，《名侦探柯南》女二号灰原哀即取名自这位可爱的格雷小姐（Gray, 意为“灰”）。 P.D.詹姆斯的作品极具文学性，她获得了伦敦大学等八所高校获得荣誉博士学位，曾担任英国作家协会主席、艺术委员会文化片区主席、布克文学奖评委主席，其文...(展开全部)

For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, "A Woman" (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curiously obscure in America. Aleramo's lightly fictionalized memoir presented...(展开全部)

'A groundbreaking, earthquaking vision, a story and a manifesto, and a literary performance so energetic it almost demands to be read aloud' Guardian 'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?' When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazi...(展开全部)

作者 【美】娜塔莉·安吉尔（NATALIE ANGIER） 《纽约时报》生物学专栏作家。曾荣获普利策奖、美国科学促进会新闻事业奖、刘易斯·托马斯生命科学写作奖以及其他诸多奖项，还曾为《大西洋月刊》《华盛顿月刊》《读者文摘》、福克斯有线电视网、加拿大广播公司以及许多重量级女性杂志撰文。 著有《野兽之美》（The Beauty of the Beastly）、《迷恋自然》（Natural Obsessions）和《女性之书》（Woman）。 译者 黄琪，自由译者。 译作有《昆虫传》《当昆虫遇见人类文明》《科学之种》《当代女性先锋设计师》《隐谷路》以及多部科普类绘本。

Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design, an interactive design studio whose work has been called “delightfully hostile” by The New Yorker. He prefers elegant, simple sites with clear language that serve a real need. He prefers that designers have strong spines.

Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design, an interactive design studio whose work has been called “delightfully hostile” by The New Yorker. He prefers elegant, simple sites with clear language that serve a real need. He prefers that designers have strong spines.

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)

A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times. Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, in her native Yorkshire where her lover is involved in ...(展开全部)