Aberdeen is the Granite City. Even in the twenty-first century when concrete, steel and glass are more likely to be the building materials of choice, the centre of Aberdeen still proudly show

史都華．麥克布萊德 Stuart MacBride 和妻子費歐娜住在蘇格蘭東北部，同住的還有他們的貓格蘭蒂爾、一百萬隻蜘蛛（尚未命名），以及一塊長滿野草的蔬菜田（取名為法蘭克）。 麥雷警佐系列為他贏得了英國犯罪作家協會的匕首獎，並被巴瑞獎遴選為最佳處女作，英國第六大電視頻道ITV3的犯罪驚悚獎將他選為最佳突破性作者。麥雷警佐系列也讓他登上了暢銷書第一名的寶座。 歡迎造訪史都華．麥克布萊德的網站：www.StuartMacBride.com

After a long recuperation from a stab wound, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae's first night back on duty in Aberdeen, Scotland, takes him to a crime scene where the body of a missing boy has been found on a riverbank. To the horror of even the most experienced cops on the job, all the details point to a ritualistic murder--a serial killer. Then twenty-four hours later, another ch...(展开全部)

史都華．麥克布萊德 Stuart MacBride 和妻子費歐娜住在蘇格蘭東北部，同住的還有他們的貓格蘭蒂爾、一百萬隻蜘蛛（尚未命名），以及一塊長滿野草的蔬菜田（取名為法蘭克）。 麥雷警佐系列為他贏得了英國犯罪作家協會的匕首獎，並被巴瑞獎遴選為最佳處女作，英國第六大電視頻道ITV3的犯罪驚悚獎將他選為最佳突破性作者。麥雷警佐系列也讓他登上了暢銷書第一名的寶座。 歡迎造訪史都華．麥克布萊德的網站：www.StuartMacBride.com

Ian Rankin and Michael Marshall are set to have their status challenged by debut Scottish author Stuart MacBride, an original and powerful new voice in thriller writing. It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

巴里科（1958-），生于都灵。1991年出版个人的首部小说《愤怒的城堡》，就获了坎皮耶洛精选作品奖(PremioSelezioneCampiello)，并且被译成多国文学。以风格清新受到意大利文坛瞩目；1993年推出第二部小说《海洋，海》一跃成为意大利年轻人中风靡一时的明星作家，又为他赢得了意大利维亚雷焦文学奖(PremioViareggio)的殊荣。他是欧洲各种重要文学奖的常胜军。《海洋，海》一书在意大利赢得维多雷古文学奖和波斯克城堡文学奖；《愤怒的城堡》甫一出版就同时获得法国著名的梅迪奇外国作品奖和意大利康彼埃洛处女作奖；《蚕丝》出版后更立刻登上意大利畅销书排行榜，迅即盘踞欧洲各大文学书籍的畅销排行榜。而他1991年的新作《城市》，在出版的头几个月仅意大利就有二十万的销售量。他的剧作《海上钢琴师》（1994，Novicento）被朱塞佩·托纳托...(展开全部)

This award-winning book by a Harvard landscape architect proves how important it is to understand the natural settings of cities—their air, water, geology, plant, and animal life—to create better, more habitable urban environments.

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)