英國(guó)十本最佳非小說(shuō)類圖書

1、英國(guó)十本最佳非小說(shuō)類圖書之一THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER: OR THE MURDER AT ROAD HILL HOUSE by KATE SUMMERSCALE本書已在英語(yǔ)國(guó)家狂銷500，000冊(cè)，并囊括英國(guó)圖書獎(jiǎng)和英國(guó)非小說(shuō)類圖書獎(jiǎng)雙重獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)繁體已售分類：社科 真實(shí)事件 時(shí)事英文書名：THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER: OR THE MURDER AT ROAD HILL HOUSE作者：KATE SUMMERSCALE出版社：BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC出版年份：April 2008審閱資料：電子手稿版權(quán)已售：UK

2、: Bloomsbury (pub April 2008)US: Walker & Co.Brazil: Companhia das LetrasFrance: Bourgois; Germany: BloomsburyGreece: PatakisHolland: Nieuw AmsterdamIsrael: ModanItaly: Einaudi; Norway: GyldendalPoland: WABRussia: ASTSpain: Lumen (Random House Mondadori)Thailand: Post Publishing.中文概要：故事發(fā)生在1860年的仲夏夜，

3、Georgian House在Road, Wiltshire的村莊里遺世而獨(dú)立，一切都顯得那么的靜謐。百葉窗遮蔽的屋內(nèi)，Kent一家正睡意沉沉。午夜某時(shí)，突然聽(tīng)見(jiàn)狗吠的聲音。第二天，一家人醒來(lái)，驚悚地發(fā)現(xiàn)家中發(fā)生了慘絕人寰的謀殺案。案發(fā)后，Kent一家還是心有余悸，因?yàn)閮词诌€在他們中間。那個(gè)時(shí)代最著名的偵探Jack Whicher在案發(fā)兩星期后前來(lái)偵查。他面臨著難以想象的艱巨任務(wù)：此時(shí)陷于悲痛中的Kent家族成員正是他所要調(diào)查的對(duì)象。此樁謀殺案件令全國(guó)唏噓。而中產(chǎn)階級(jí)家族背后的復(fù)雜情況更是令人疑惑不解，處處生疑：有所圖謀的傭人，叛逆的孩子，瘋狂，嫉妒，孤獨(dú)，厭惡的情感充斥著整個(gè)家族，引來(lái)恐慌。

4、但當(dāng)Whicher最后將真相公布天下之時(shí)，更是令無(wú)數(shù)的人感到震驚疑惑。這是一個(gè)真實(shí)死亡故事，曾激起一代文豪的靈感，撰寫出經(jīng)典的謀殺故事一具尸體，一名偵探，以及一座背后擁有無(wú)數(shù)秘密的鄉(xiāng)下屋子。在本部作品中，Kate Summerscale為讀者解開(kāi)背后的事實(shí)真相，將經(jīng)典案件重現(xiàn)于世人眼前。Descriptions:It is a summers night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows

5、the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them.

6、 Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects.The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the clo

7、sed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.A true story that inspired a generation of writ

8、ers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body; a detective; and, a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it b

9、ack to vivid, extraordinary life.之二Sunday Times 2009-3月暢銷排行榜非小說(shuō)類第一名的好書!THE BOLTER by FRANCES OSBORNE逃逸者分類：傳記類 傳記英文書名：THE BOLTER作者：FRANCES OSBORNE出版社：VIRAGO PRESS出版年份：Feb 2009審閱資料：電子手稿中文概要：1934年5月25日，星期五，一位41歲的婦人走進(jìn)克拉里奇飯店的大廳，去見(jiàn)她從未謀面，闊別19年的兒子。15年前，第一次世界大戰(zhàn)結(jié)束時(shí)，艾迪娜薩克維爾離開(kāi)家產(chǎn)萬(wàn)貫的父親，和一個(gè)身無(wú)分文男人私奔到非洲，這一舉動(dòng)令當(dāng)時(shí)的上流社會(huì)

10、為之震驚。薩克維爾共離了5次婚，最后離世時(shí)枕邊還放著初戀的照片。每有一段新的婚姻，她都努力去營(yíng)造一個(gè)全新的自己，但其中一個(gè)丈夫在肯尼亞歡樂(lè)谷被謀殺卻給她留下“女祭司”的烙印。薩克維爾的生活被認(rèn)為是一則丑聞，因而一直被家人所保密。如今，她的曾孫女弗蘭西斯奧斯本回顧了這個(gè)關(guān)于背叛和心碎的傳奇故事，描繪了一幅20世紀(jì)初期上流社會(huì)的繽紛圖畫。DescriptionsOn Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridges Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-

11、old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man.An inspiration for Nancy Mitfords character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, and p

12、hotographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered and branded her the high priestess of White Mischiefs bed-hopping Happy Valley in

13、Kenya. Sackvilles life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackvilles road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century.Abo

14、ut the Author:Frances Osborne worked as a barrister and investment research analyst before becoming a full-time writer. Both as Frances Osborne and under her maiden name, Frances Howell, she has written for the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent and Moneyweek. She has also written for the S

15、unday Times, The Daily Mail, The Spectator and Vogue. She is currently working on her debut novel, due to be published in 2010.作者簡(jiǎn)介：弗蘭西斯奧斯本（Frances Osborne），在成為全職作家前做過(guò)律師，投資研究分析員，她目前為每日快訊，泰晤士報(bào)，獨(dú)立報(bào)和理財(cái)周刊寫稿。同時(shí)也為周日時(shí)報(bào)，每日郵報(bào)，旁觀者，時(shí)尚供稿。她現(xiàn)正忙于自己的首部小說(shuō)，預(yù)計(jì)2010年出版。Praises:Truly interesting. Osborne paints an enthra

16、lling portrait of upper class English life just before, during and immediately after the Great War. Frivolous, rich, sexy, achingly fashionable . . . Frances Osborne has probably made her peace at last.-Robert McCrum, Observer Passionate and headstrong, Lady Idina was determined to be free even if t

17、he cost was scandal and ruin. Frances Osborne has brilliantly captured not only one womans life but an entire lost society.-Amanda Foreman The Bolter is a biographical treat-Kerry Fowler, Good Housekeeping Rich, title, witty, beguiling, Lady Idina Sackville had all the gifts, except, perhaps, judgem

18、ent. Frances Osborne has written an enthralling account of a dazzling, troubled, life.-Julian Fellowes, Mail on Sunday This is a truly astonishing book. Frances Osborne has not just brought to life a dizzyingly rich and scandalous slice of social history, she has produced a tragic and deeply moving

19、tale as well. It is far more gripping than any novel I have read for years-Antony Beevor Osborne is a graceful writer, excellent at evoking the atmosphere of London during the First World War and Happy Valley in the Twenties. Her judgement is pitch-perfect, never letting Idina off the hook but at the same time sympathetic towards her,