Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Great Railway Bazaar" - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and ...(展开全部)

Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is an absorbing...(展开全部)

Now a classic of the travel genre, The Great Railway Bazaar chronicles Paul Theroux's adventures by rail from Victoria Station in London to Tokyo Central, told with his signature wry observations.

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-...(展开全部)

保罗•索鲁 Paul Theroux, 1941- 美国旅行作家。曾在马拉维的丛林学校担任和平团教师，在乌干达的大学担任讲师。在新加坡大学任教期间，将短篇故事及为报刊撰写的文章结集成册，并开始写小说。后与家人移居英国，居住十多年。目前在美国定居，仍前往各处旅行。 保罗•索鲁著作丰富，包括《赫拉克勒斯之柱》《老巴塔哥尼亚快车》《美国深南之旅》等。荣获英国惠特布雷德文学奖、托马斯•库克旅行文学奖。

芭芭拉．妮克莉絲 Barbara Nickless 美國推理作家協會成員。在許多寫作討論會與書展中都曾開設工作坊及發表演說。短篇小說與短文曾收錄於美國與英國的選集中。目前與家人住在科羅拉多州。《軌道殺人事件》是她的首部長篇力作，以其熟稔的寫作風格，結合驚悚、愛情、反戰、道德兩難等元素，未出版前就榮獲達芙妮．莫里哀獎「未出版」類別的最佳主流推理大獎，並獲得克雷默爾獎第二名。

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she ...(展开全部)

宝拉•霍金斯 Paula Hawkins ——我对快乐、正常的角色丝毫不感兴趣。 宝拉•霍金斯出生成长于津巴布韦，1989年迁至伦敦。 曾任记者长达15年。定居伦敦后，为了谋生，她曾为人代笔创作都市女性小说。 她每天搭乘伦敦地铁通勤，其他上班族习以为常的经历，却给予她奇妙的灵感，《火车上的女孩》的故事框架由此诞生。 在小说写到一半时，她陷入经济困境，经纪人帮她寄出不到200页的书稿，开始四处寻觅合适的出版社。 出乎意料的是，稿件公开后，引起各国小说编辑的震惊，趋之若鹜，纷纷抛出橄榄枝，砸下重金竞标。 梦工厂更是慧眼识金，在故事还未完结的情况下，就先人一步，果断签下电影改编权。 《火车上的女孩》出版前数月，在英国一年一度的犯罪小说节发送试读本，先期读到的读者，给予了一边倒的如潮好评。 2015年1月，英美同步上市发行，十天内，迅速登上各大排行榜总榜冠军...(展开全部)

YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller 'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of bac...(展开全部)

作者简介：埃米·赫斯特（Amy Hest） 美国图画书作家，现居纽约。埃米说，她所创作的故事都是当她自己是个孩子的时候想要读到的。写作之余，埃米喜欢散步、骑自行车、看电影和读书。代表作有《晚安吻》《紫色上衣》《当杰西穿过大海》《给里欧写信》等。她曾三次荣获克里斯多夫奖。 绘者简介：珍妮·德斯蒙德（Jenni Desmond） 英国艺术家和插画家，新锐儿童图画书创作者。她毕业于英国的萨塞克斯大学，主修英语和艺术史，并于2006年获得学士学位，后又在安格利亚鲁斯金大学剑桥艺术学院学习，于2011年获得了儿童图书绘画专业硕士学位。 珍妮的作品有《跑得太快的斑马》《流星划过天空的夜晚》《艾尔的树》等。她使用颜料、墨水、蜡笔和拼贴手法进行创作，再用电脑扫描和编辑，尽力让她的画作悦目、漂亮和有趣。她的作品获得了2013年"一看再看"剑桥儿童图画书奖，也获颁英国国...(展开全部)