琼·林赛（1896—1984），澳大利亚著名的小说家、剧作家、散文家和视觉艺术家。年轻时曾经从事绘画创作，后来又开始进行文学创作，四十岁时推出了她的处女作小说《穿越最黑暗的庞德拉约》（Through Darkest Pondelayo）。林赛最享誉盛名的作品《悬崖上的野餐》出版于1967年，是一部带有哥特色彩的历史小说。这部作品出版后即引起巨大社会反响，许多人都怀疑这部作品是真实事件，而作者林赛暧昧的态度更是让这部作品引发热议。《悬崖上的野餐》被公认为澳大利亚最重要的小说之一，1975年被翻拍为同名电影，由拍摄过《楚门的世界》《死亡诗社》等著名影片的导演彼得·威尔执导，获1977年英国电影学院奖最佳摄影奖。

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK** 'A sinister tale' Guardian The classic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. A cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred... Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls cl...(展开全部)

On St Valentine's day in 1900, a party of Australian schoolgirls set off with two schoolmistresses on a picnic to a place called Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. What began as a pleasant and happy day out ended in terror.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

Penguin celebrates the centennial of Graham Greene's birth with commemorativeeditions of his greatest works.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West—and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfri...(展开全部)

In these ten stories， Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration， cleanly chiseled prose， and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace."Beautifully imagined and crafted stories， by turns heartrending a...(展开全部)

理查德•福特，美国当代重要作家。1944年出生于密西西比州杰克逊市。他在密歇根州立大学毕业后曾担任初中教师，后在华盛顿大学法学院读了一学期，即转学加州大学厄湾校区攻读创意写作硕士学位。福特有轻微的阅读障碍，但痴迷文学，创作了《体育记者》、《独立日》等五部长篇小说，《石泉城》、《多重罪恶》等三部短篇小说集。 理查德•福特曾为“美国文库”主编韦尔蒂作品选，为《格兰塔》杂志主编多部短篇小说选，在多所大学教授写作课程。 福特是美国艺术与文学院院士。曾获得普利策小说奖、美国笔会福克纳小说奖和马拉默德短篇小说奖、Rea短篇小说奖和法国文学艺术奖。作品已被翻译成近三十种文字。