A suspense writer comes upon several murder stories on his computer that are written in his own unique style. He doesn't remember writing them, but it is not impossible for him, as a man who suffered memory loss, to be their author. Soon a journey takes him to northwest China along the ancient Silk Road. He is shocked to learn that the murders in the stories really happened in ...(展开全部)

A book to treasure from one of our literary greats. A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy. Fiona Kidman’s early stories about New Zealand women’s experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a...(展开全部)

A book to treasure from one of our literary greats. A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy. Fiona Kidman’s early stories about New Zealand women’s experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a...(展开全部)

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and ...(展开全部)

科尔森·怀特黑德 美国作家，自1999年发表处女作起便获奖无数，备受赞誉。 2016年凭借《地下铁道》获得美国国家图书奖，被媒体誉为“美国在世作家中最出类拔萃的一个”，并于翌年斩获普利策小说奖。 2019年登上《时代周刊》封面，获得了美国出版界的最高赞誉：“美国的叙事大师。” 2020年凭借《黑男孩》二度斩获普利策小说奖，横扫美国各大年度图书榜单，受到奥巴马、伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特、乔治·桑德斯等人的追捧，在全美掀起阅读热潮。

Duration: 06:46:08 In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad , Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enc...(展开全部)

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which clai...(展开全部)

In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pr...(展开全部)