Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control. From the Inside Flap With the appearance of D.A. Miller's remarkable book, the Victorian novel has its most dazzling critic in years. . . . Miller's subject is not so much the police ...(展开全部)

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

约翰•普雷斯顿，著名英国记者、作家，曾是《星期日电讯报》的艺术编辑和电视评论人，现居伦敦。普雷斯顿的作品涉及非虚构和小说作品，其中小说主要有Ghosting（1996）、Ink（1999）、Kings of the Roundhouse(2006)以及被改编为电影，由拉尔夫•费因斯、凯瑞•穆里根主演、于2021年Netflix上档的《发掘》（The Dig）。2020年最新出版了非虚构作品《堕落：罗伯特•马克斯韦的秘密》（Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwel），获得2021年科斯塔传记奖，还入围了英国最具盛名的非虚构文学奖巴美列•捷福奖短名单。

John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers. He is the author of a travel book and four novels. His most recent novel, The Dig, was published to great acclaim in 2007.

约翰•普雷斯顿，著名英国记者、作家，曾是《星期日电讯报》的艺术编辑和电视评论人，现居伦敦。普雷斯顿的作品涉及非虚构和小说作品，其中小说主要有Ghosting（1996）、Ink（1999）、Kings of the Roundhouse(2006)以及被改编为电影，由拉尔夫•费因斯、凯瑞•穆里根主演、于2021年Netflix上档的《发掘》（The Dig）。2020年最新出版了非虚构作品《堕落：罗伯特•马克斯韦的秘密》（Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwel），获得2021年科斯塔传记奖，还入围了英国最具盛名的非虚构文学奖巴美列•捷福奖短名单。

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, "The Wapshot Scandal" is filled wit...(展开全部)

“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start. . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding. . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the...(展开全部)

Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic rev...(展开全部)

Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic rev...(展开全部)