约翰·布莱恩是“愤怒的青年”派的主要作家之一。1922年，他出生于英格兰约克郡的一个工人家庭。所以在他的作品中，有许多人物是以约克郡为背景的，他曾就学于布雷德福德，初中毕业后，他曾在家俱店、书店、化学实验室、图书馆工作过。在此期间，他还曾进过函校学校。1957年，他发表了第一部长篇小说《上层的空位》(也译《向上爬》)，一举成名。这部作品被认为是他的代表作。其主题为工人阶级的青年乔·兰普登在社会上的发迹以及随之而发生的性格上的变化。1962年，他又出版了小说《上层的社会》，作为《上层的空位》的续编，但其成就远远不如前部，所以没有引起多大反响。这两部作品典型地代表了布莱思的创作风格和好恶。他总是以当代社会为反映对象，剖析福利国家中的各种社会、文化问题。与金斯莱、艾米斯相比，他的小说不如艾米斯的小说那样情节曲折，也远不如艾米斯那么幽默风趣。在塑造人物时，他...(展开全部)

The bestselling story of Joe Lampton, the original 'angry young man'. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of success is high and betrayal and tragedy strike as Joe Lampton pursues his goals.

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and...(展开全部)

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of ...(展开全部)

保罗·霍尔特（Paul Halter, 1956— ），法国当代侦探小说作家，因坚持本格侦探小说创作而被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。1987年凭借《第四扇门》（La Quatrième Porte）获得科尼亚克侦探小说大奖。陆续创作以“阿兰·图威斯特”（Alan Twist）和“欧文·伯恩斯”（Owen Burns）为主人公的系列作品。其代表作有《第四扇门》《第七重解答》（La Septième Hypothèse）《幻影小巷》（La Ruelle fantôme）等。

The Dupayne， a small private museum on the edge of London s Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39， is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder， old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered， and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even a...(展开全部)

P．D．詹姆斯是英国当代最著名的推理小说女作家，被尊称为“推理小说第一夫人”。出生于1920年的P．D．詹姆斯自1950年开始写作，至今笔耕不辍。她已出版近20部作品，她的大部分作品均被拍成电视剧或电影。 P．D.詹姆斯的作品曾经多次获得英美推理小说奖。1987年荣获有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的英国推理小说家协会“钻石匕首奖”终身成就奖，并受英国皇室勋封为女伯爵，1999年荣获美国推理小说家协会大师奖，也曾获爱伦坡奖。P.D.詹姆斯现任英国作家协会主席。

Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, witha room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim ...(展开全部)

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of ...(展开全部)

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and...(展开全部)