A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and with a flagrant disregard for her employer's opinions she may even be crazy. She allows no-one to set foot inside her house; she masks hersel...(展开全部)

The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her c...(展开全部)

A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid. Although everyone in the neighbourhood knows and respects her, no one knows anything about her private life or has ever crossed her threshold. Only a great drama in the writer's life prompts Emerence to...(展开全部)

A young writer, struggling for success, employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid. Although everyone in the neighbourhood knows and respects her, no one knows anything about her private life or has ever crossed her threshold. Only a great drama in the writer's life prompts Emerence to...(展开全部)

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and with a flagrant disregard for her employer's opinions she may even be crazy. She allows no-one to set foot inside her house; she masks hersel...(展开全部)

The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her c...(展开全部)

Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was...(展开全部)

理查德•阿尔德里奇 华威大学国际安全教授，战争和情报领域的定期评论员，《标准晚报》《卫报》《泰晤士报》《每日电讯》撰稿人。2007年9月加入公共事务情报服务部（PAIS），其研究专注于情报与安全机构。在数个英国政府部门担任档案管理、档案解密、公司记忆库等方面的顾问；2015—2016年，协助德国联邦议院调查了美国国家安全局的斯诺登事件。 在过去的数年中，阿尔德里奇主导了名为“秘密景观：1947—2001中央情报局及美国外交政策中的争议性记录”的研究项目，并获得资金支持。出版过数本图书，包括“唐纳图书奖”获奖作品《看不见的手：英国、美国和冷战时的秘密情报组织》。 罗里•科马克 新一代情报史专家中的佼佼者，专业领域为英国秘密行动和秘密外交政策——这或许是英国情报史上最激动人心，目前还未得到充分研究的领域。科马克出版了大量关于安全问题的作品，并且经常出现在...(展开全部)

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Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband? Your sadistic high school gym teacher? Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings? The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own? In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door , you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and collea...(展开全部)