Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabr...(展开全部)

First UK edition The first book in CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage series starring a team of MI5 agents united by one common They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. London, Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced the...(展开全部)

Praise for Mick Herron: "Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way. . . . In Herron's book, there is no hiding under the desk."— The New York Times Book Review "Stylish and engaging."— The Washington Post "[A] masterful thriller. . . . The intricate plot, coupled with Herron's breezy writing style, results in superior entertainment that makes most oth...(展开全部)

First UK edition The first book in CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage series starring a team of MI5 agents united by one common They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. London, Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced the...(展开全部)

Praise for Mick Herron: "Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way. . . . In Herron's book, there is no hiding under the desk."— The New York Times Book Review "Stylish and engaging."— The Washington Post "[A] masterful thriller. . . . The intricate plot, coupled with Herron's breezy writing style, results in superior entertainment that makes most oth...(展开全部)

Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabr...(展开全部)

This collection spotlights thirteen of his most unforgettable narratives, including REAR WINDOW, which watches Hal Jeffries confined with a broken leg to a tiny apartment that only allows him to survey the daily lives of his neighbors across the courtyard?until he discovers one of them is a cold-blooded murderer and that he?s the next victim. Other thrillers involve a woman tra...(展开全部)

Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now, in Half Broke Horses , she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nons...(展开全部)

Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events — the accidental death of a child, his best friend’s feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father’s decision to leave the family for another woman — will change his life forever. An early morning adventure out steali...(展开全部)

Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now, in Half Broke Horses , she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nons...(展开全部)