The Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Sunday Times Bestseller 'The sweetest, most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love' Marian Keyes London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, Emmy instead finds herself employed as a typist for the formidable Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt at...(展开全部)

An irresistible debut set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist-a warm, funny, and enormously moving story for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac GirlsLondon, 1940. Emmeline Lake is "Doing Her Bit" for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Servi...(展开全部)

A. J.皮尔斯（A. J. Pearce） A. J.皮尔斯在英国汉普郡长大。在苏塞克斯大学获得硕士学位后，她开始了二十多年杂志出版的职业生涯。 一次偶然，皮尔斯发现了一本出版于1939年的女性杂志《女人的自我》，她着迷不已：“刚开始我只是觉得比较有趣，然后，整个世界就向我打开了。” 她又搜集了数百本那个年代的杂志，这些宝贵的素材成为了她写作本书的灵感源泉，成就了一鸣惊人的处女作《亲爱的伯德太太》。 2018年刚上市便空降《星期日泰晤士报》十大畅销书排行榜，以俏皮、讽刺又不失深刻的文字打动无数欧美读者，得到了《卫报》《人物》《出版人周刊》等权威媒体的联合推荐。她本人也因此书被《观察家报》评选为“2018年处女作小说年度作家之一”。

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On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility h...(展开全部)

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility h...(展开全部)

A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, this classic novel, originally published in 1965, is a dark masterpiece that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is the first, and the most famous, novel by one of the most important and original writers of this century.

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where...(展开全部)

In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research… Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, the films of David ...(展开全部)

Clarissa Dalloway, in her fifties, wife of an English MP, emerges from her house in Westminster one fine June morning to buy flowers for her party. And by that simple act she entwines her life with the lives of others who will hear, with her, Big Ben toll away the hours of their destinies that day. "Clarissa's day captures in a definite matrix the drift of thought and feelin...(展开全部)