Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new production of Hamlet under the exacting direction of John Gielgud. But as rehearsals progress, the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel. One of them is the most famous movie star in the world; the other, a patric...(展开全部)

Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a bette...(展开全部)

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents. They are not...(展开全部)

本书为2008年全球公认的最为出色的推理作品《第四十四个孩子（Child 44）》的续集。故事发生在1956年，赫鲁晓夫当政之后，发表了一份谴责斯大林滥用职权、个人崇拜的秘密报告。利奥·德米多夫在本书中调任为负责凶杀案的警察，早已远离他在MGB工作的时光。但是他从前的同事，害怕那些受害者的报复，开始担心他们的生命受到威胁。利奥曾将一名牧师下狱，牧师的妻子弗瑞拉现在成为一个暴力团伙的首领，弗瑞拉绑架了利奥的养女佐娅，威胁说，如果利奥不把他丈夫从古拉格放出来，她就杀死佐娅…… 本书的场景从莫斯科直到西伯利亚，还牵涉到1956年的匈牙利事件，描绘了后斯大林时代的黎明景象。本书剧情明快，事件众多，堪称苏联社会的缩影。

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents. They are not...(展开全部)

本书为2008年全球公认的最为出色的推理作品《第四十四个孩子（Child 44）》的续集。故事发生在1956年，赫鲁晓夫当政之后，发表了一份谴责斯大林滥用职权、个人崇拜的秘密报告。利奥·德米多夫在本书中调任为负责凶杀案的警察，早已远离他在MGB工作的时光。但是他从前的同事，害怕那些受害者的报复，开始担心他们的生命受到威胁。利奥曾将一名牧师下狱，牧师的妻子弗瑞拉现在成为一个暴力团伙的首领，弗瑞拉绑架了利奥的养女佐娅，威胁说，如果利奥不把他丈夫从古拉格放出来，她就杀死佐娅…… 本书的场景从莫斯科直到西伯利亚，还牵涉到1956年的匈牙利事件，描绘了后斯大林时代的黎明景象。本书剧情明快，事件众多，堪称苏联社会的缩影。

Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a bette...(展开全部)

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and ...(展开全部)

菲利帕·格里高利是一位全职作者及电台、电视台主持人，拥有爱丁堡大学十八世纪文学研究博士学位，尤其偏爱创作以都铎王朝及16世纪英国为背景的小说，被称作“历史小说女王”。作品《另一个波琳家的女孩》发行全球26个国家，仅在英国就发行量破百万。后被好莱坞搬上银幕。《玫瑰战争》系列也将由BBC改编为电视剧，预计在2013年8月上映。菲利帕·格里高利的历史小说系列仍在不断更新中，每有新作面世便长期占据美英各大畅销书榜单前位，受到读者广泛好评。

Brother turns on brother. The throne of England is at stake. The deadly Wars of the Roses have begun. . . . They ruled England before the Tudors, and now internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the Plantagenets to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women. Elizabeth Woodville, a woman of extraordinary beau...(展开全部)