Grande Sertão: Veredas (Portuguese for "Big Backcountry: Tracks"; English translation: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) is an influential novel published in 1956 by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa. The original title refers to the veredas - small paths of wetlands usually located at higher altitudes carachterized by the presence of grasses and buritizais, groups of t...(展开全部)

Former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon is drawn back into the game to take on a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part in Gabriel's past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into a globe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deep personal passions...

玛丽•凯利，英国侦探小说作家，以布雷特•南丁格尔及赫德利•尼克尔森探案系列闻名，她的行文风格独树一帜，笔下人物带有强烈的现实主义风格。大英图书馆出版了她别出心裁的——也是布雷特•南丁格尔探案三部曲的最后一部作品——《圣诞彩蛋谜案》，该书收入“大英图书馆经典侦探小说”系列之中。

弗•福赛斯（Frederick Forsyth, 1938~） 国际政治惊悚小说大师，最受情报界推崇的间谍小说作家。他的小说用新闻写作的手法，以翔实的事实调查作为基础，充满了精确的技术细节。他笔下的人物具有高智商的逻辑思维、训练有素的专业性、坚决彻底的执行力、快速的危机处理和应变能力，堪称项目策划实施的至高典范。 福赛斯本人的经历很传奇：6岁就曾试图搭载美军坦克去诺曼底参战，16岁偷偷单独驾驶双翼飞机翱翔蓝天，19岁成为英国皇家空军史上最年轻的战斗机飞行员。他能讲英、法、德、俄、西班牙等多国语言，曾任英国路透社、BBC记者，深入局势动荡地区采访时，还曾与雇佣兵、职业刺客、军火贩子等打过交道，甚至多次在流弹中死里逃生。近日福赛斯坦言，他曾为英国军情六处工作二十多年，曾在冷战时期，为英国提供比亚法拉的前线报道。 福赛斯对世界各国的政治主张、历史恩怨、宗教...(展开全部)

弗•福赛斯（Frederick Forsyth, 1938~） 国际政治惊悚小说大师，最受情报界推崇的间谍小说作家。他的小说用新闻写作的手法，以翔实的事实调查作为基础，充满了精确的技术细节。他笔下的人物具有高智商的逻辑思维、训练有素的专业性、坚决彻底的执行力、快速的危机处理和应变能力，堪称项目策划实施的至高典范。 福赛斯本人的经历很传奇：6岁就曾试图搭载美军坦克去诺曼底参战，16岁偷偷单独驾驶双翼飞机翱翔蓝天，19岁成为英国皇家空军史上最年轻的战斗机飞行员。他能讲英、法、德、俄、西班牙等多国语言，曾任英国路透社、BBC记者，深入局势动荡地区采访时，还曾与雇佣兵、职业刺客、军火贩子等打过交道，甚至多次在流弹中死里逃生。近日福赛斯坦言，他曾为英国军情六处工作二十多年，曾在冷战时期，为英国提供比亚法拉的前线报道。 福赛斯对世界各国的政治主张、历史恩怨、宗教...(展开全部)

弗•福赛斯（Frederick Forsyth, 1938~） 国际政治惊悚小说大师，最受情报界推崇的间谍小说作家。他的小说用新闻写作的手法，以翔实的事实调查作为基础，充满了精确的技术细节。他笔下的人物具有高智商的逻辑思维、训练有素的专业性、坚决彻底的执行力、快速的危机处理和应变能力，堪称项目策划实施的至高典范。 福赛斯本人的经历很传奇：6岁就曾试图搭载美军坦克去诺曼底参战，16岁偷偷单独驾驶双翼飞机翱翔蓝天，19岁成为英国皇家空军史上最年轻的战斗机飞行员。他能讲英、法、德、俄、西班牙等多国语言，曾任英国路透社、BBC记者，深入局势动荡地区采访时，还曾与雇佣兵、职业刺客、军火贩子等打过交道，甚至多次在流弹中死里逃生。近日福赛斯坦言，他曾为英国军情六处工作二十多年，曾在冷战时期，为英国提供比亚法拉的前线报道。 福赛斯对世界各国的政治主张、历史恩怨、宗教...(展开全部)

Former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon is drawn back into the game to take on a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part in Gabriel's past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into a globe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deep personal passions...

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and ...(展开全部)

In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pr...(展开全部)

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which clai...(展开全部)