**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.

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。

This title is now presented in paperback. Ours is an era of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be 'at home?'. Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way ...(展开全部)

Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, and pioneer of nuclear fission, John A. Wheeler is one of our most original and profound thinkers. In 1939 he published, with Niels Bohr, the first paper to successfully describe nuclear fission in terms of quantum physics - research that led to his involvement in the Los Alamos project. This volume presents essays by John Archibald...(展开全部)

This title is now presented in paperback. Ours is an era of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be 'at home?'. Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way ...(展开全部)

Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, and pioneer of nuclear fission, John A. Wheeler is one of our most original and profound thinkers. In 1939 he published, with Niels Bohr, the first paper to successfully describe nuclear fission in terms of quantum physics - research that led to his involvement in the Los Alamos project. This volume presents essays by John Archibald...(展开全部)

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)