The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetery... Seemingly random facts linked to one man...Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal, and his immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tuc...(展开全部)

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetery... Seemingly random facts linked to one man...Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal, and his immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tuc...(展开全部)

**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。

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk. "From the Paperback...(展开全部)

Shadows are holes in light. They are see all the time and sometimes noticed, but their part in our visual experience of the world is mysterious. This text draws on contemporary cognitive science, 18th-century theories of visual perception and art history to discuss shadows and the visual knowledge they can offer. The author begins by describing the physical constitution and dif...(展开全部)

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈 Françoise Sagan（1935—2004） 法国天才女作家，一代人的青春同义词。拥有漂亮的外表、敏感的心灵和避重就轻的天赋，喜欢写作、赛马、飚车、酗酒，结交演艺界、政界的朋友，任由官司缠身。 十八岁时，她凭借小说《你好，忧愁》获得了法国批评家奖。一生中发表了二十部长篇小说、十一部剧作、若干短篇小说及散文，也参与创作电影和歌曲。 六十三岁时，她撰写了自己的悼词：“一九五四年，她以一本薄薄的小说《你好,忧愁》出道，这部小说成为了一桩世界性丑闻。她的一生和她的作品同样愉快而又轻率，她的隐没则成为一个只属于她自己的丑闻。”

布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。

Published in 2015 by Case Publishing and produced by the Fine-Arts Photography Association of Japan, Ishiuchi Miyako’s Belongings contains a selection of her most recent and well known bodies of work published on occasion of the 2015 Daikanyama Photo Fair. Bound within are images from three of her photographic series; Mothers (2000-2005), Hiroshima(2007) _and Frida by Ishiuchi ...(展开全部)