Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex’s ‘Guns for God’ programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl’s world is upended. Eli...(展开全部)

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent ...(展开全部)

Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister of War raises the spectre of war across Europe.

Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex’s ‘Guns for God’ programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl’s world is upended. Eli...(展开全部)

伊恩‧歐佛頓 Iain Overton 畢業於劍橋大學唐寧學院，在倫敦的慈善機構「對武裝暴力採取行動」(Action on Armed Violence)擔任主席，並於劍橋大學擔任客座講師，同時也是調查記者兼戰地記者，於全世界超過八十國工作，在柬埔寨、伊拉克和索馬利亞等殺戮地區報導新聞。他也以製片的身分，為BBC、ITN和Al Jazeera等導演紀錄片，並且和《衛報》(the Guardian)、《獨立報》(the Independent)、《周日時報》(Sunday Times)等合作。他的報導曾榮獲皮博迪獎(Peabody Award)，兩度獲得國際特赦組織獎(Amnesty Award)以及一座英國電影和電視藝術學院蘇格蘭獎(BAFTA Scotland)。他成立調查新聞報導局(Bureau of Investigative Journali...(展开全部)

I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl! The girl in this book likes to win, she likes to be spontaneous, fast and strong, and because she also likes to dress in t-shirt and shorts, she is forever getting mistaken for a boy. And when she meets a boy who likes wearing pr...(展开全部)

Winner of the Campiello Prize. A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator. “I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The word ‘mama’ stuck in my throat like a toad. And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is. It is not mine in the way one might have good he...(展开全部)

I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl! The girl in this book likes to win, she likes to be spontaneous, fast and strong, and because she also likes to dress in t-shirt and shorts, she is forever getting mistaken for a boy. And when she meets a boy who likes wearing pr...(展开全部)

In 1960, Edna O'Brien published The Country Girls , her first novel, which so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien, married with two sons, was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face to face with a life of high drama and...(展开全部)