A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince ...(展开全部)

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prin...(展开全部)

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ......(展开全部)

Winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year!'Reginald Hill is on stunning form!the climax is devastating' Marcel Berlins, The Times When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure he knows who the culprit is. After all, he's seen him with his own eyes. But what exactly does ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year!'Reginald Hill is on stunning form!the climax is devastating' Marcel Berlins, The Times When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure he knows who the culprit is. After all, he's seen him with his own eyes. But what exactly does ...(展开全部)

蒋子龙，当代著名作家。现任中国作家协会副会长、天津市作家协会主席。 1965年发表第一个短篇小说《新站长》。善于写工业题材。短篇小说《乔厂长上任记》、《一个工厂秘书的日记》、《拜年》，中篇小说《开拓者》、《赤橙黄绿青蓝紫》、《阴错阳差》均在全国获奖。作者还著有长篇小说《蛇神》、《子午流星》，《蒋子龙选集》(3卷)，中篇小说《锅碗瓢盆交响曲》，短篇小说《三个起重工》，《蒋子龙文集》（8卷）等。

Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the we...(展开全部)

Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the we...(展开全部)

卡桑德拉·克莱尔，出生于伊朗首都德黑兰，幼年时期经常跟随家人在全世界旅行。在一次前往喜马拉雅山脉的长途旅程中，刚学会走路的卡珊卓拉就在父亲的背包里生活了一整个月。这样的经历，使她自然地与书为友，十二岁时开始创作。 大学毕业后，卡桑德拉曾在好莱坞当过娱乐新闻记者，搬到纽约曼哈顿区后，这座城市的景观启发了她的灵感，驱使她写出生平第一部小说《骸骨之城》。她表示：“在童话故事中，魔法和冒险总是发生在城镇外的神秘黑森林里。我想要创造一个世界，其中的都市本身就变成黑暗森林——这些都会空间拥有其自身的魔力、危险、神秘及奇异的美丽。

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing—n...(展开全部)