There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith. 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party...' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touchi...(展开全部)

饥饿的毛毛虫，从周一到周日，从一个苹果两个梨……到十种杂食到一大片叶子，最后蜕变成美丽花蝴蝶。 On Monday he ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Tuesday he ate through two pears, but he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate though three plums, but he was still hungry. On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.......' On Saturday, he eats so much he has a stomachache....but puts it r...(展开全部)

饥饿的毛毛虫，从周一到周日，从一个苹果两个梨……到十种杂食到一大片叶子，最后蜕变成美丽花蝴蝶。 On Monday he ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Tuesday he ate through two pears, but he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate though three plums, but he was still hungry. On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.......' On Saturday, he eats so much he has a stomachache....but puts it r...(展开全部)

"(John Williams') first undertaking is carried out with a success that compels admiration. Mr. Williams has an uncommonly fine ear and uncommonly sensitive perceptions". -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

February 2019 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club. John Williams’s first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope. Having dropped out of college, he’s holed up in a big-city hotel, living off an allowance from his family, feeling nothing but alone and doing nothing but drinking to forget it. What’s brought him to...(展开全部)

Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimacy with a beautiful young woman. But as the memories of childhood trauma surf...(展开全部)

Jasper Morrison's name is not associated with spectacular consumer design products. Instead, he has chosen to align himself from the start with an approach that designers often return to after careers spent otherwise: simple and durable forms that remain functional and true to their materials, and retain an unmistakable and exciting modern formal language. His success in the Eu...(展开全部)

‘This is a wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire’, Max Hastings, Sunday Times The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader… Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit… Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry… In twenty meals The Hungr...(展开全部)