Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldier to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons.

A twelve-year-old boy dreams of fighting and dying heroically as part of an imaginary underground movement fighting English soldiers in Palestine during the British mandate.

From "a great and true voice of our time" (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and the Bible, he is accused of treason by his friends and learns the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Translated by Nicholas de Lange...(展开全部)

When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a gruelling case begins to trace the identity of the victim. With all avenues of investigation approaching exhaustion, a tenuous piece of evidence offers a chance for Chief Inspector Moresby and leads him to the amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, who has recently been providing cover work...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 汤姆•威廉斯（Tom Williams），1981年生于英国纽卡斯尔，毕业于英国伦敦大学学院。现居伦敦北部的肯迪什镇，并在出版业工作。本书是他的出道之作。 【译者简介】 陶泽慧，毕业于厦门大学英文系，现为图书编辑，业余从事文学、历史翻译，译有《奇想之年》《偷书贼》《教宗与墨索里尼》《午夜将至》等。

Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)