朱莉娅·斯图亚特(Julia Stuart),英国新生代畅销作家、记者。在校学习法语、西班牙语和新闻学,曾赴法国与西班牙教授英语,并在新闻界打拼多年,1999年获得国际特赦组织英国媒体奖期刊类奖(Amnesty International UK Media Awards )。
本书甫出版即荣登畅销书榜,成为当年美国独立书商的“八月选书”,也被NPR的选书人列为年度最爱图书第一名。
斯图亚特极擅长描写恋爱中笨拙的男子。他们不善言辞,不懂得抓住机会,不会讨人欢心、曲意奉承。胸中虽有柔情万千,却无法宣之于口,他们只会沉着脸,闷闷地努力,守护着自己内心的一方小天地。
发表于2024-09-30
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
来源:北京青年报 时间:2013年2月8日 作者:英吉莎 在拿到书前我一般不去搜评论看。翻开第一页时,对发生什么故事一无所知,这是我小小的阅读快乐。正因为如此,我在翻开看了两页后,立刻露出一个了然的坏笑:作者是英国人。 那种幽默感实在太熟悉,四平八稳不露声...
评分斯图亚特极擅长描写恋爱中笨拙的男子。他们不善言辞,胸中纵有柔情万千,却无法宣之于口,只会闷闷努力,守护着自己内心的一方小天地。 曾经的日不落帝国,无论工业还是文化都对世界产生了巨大的影响。世事变迁,日不落帝国的风采已然成为历史,但莎士比亚、弥尔顿、狄更斯等...
评分话说伦敦塔守卫巴尔萨泽·琼斯与妻子赫碧住在有千年历史的伦敦塔里。这里曾经血雨腥风,如今仍旧鬼影重重,嗜血的渡鸦四处横行。在动荡年代,守塔人是死囚和酷刑的象征,如今的工作却是讨好游客。一天,女王派人找到巴尔萨泽,交给他一项秘密任务——重建伦敦塔里的动物园。巴...
评分 评分昨晚把《伦敦塔集雨人》剩下的部分看到只剩最后几页,离家出走后一个月,赫碧·琼斯找到了石榴木骨灰盒的主人,跟对方说起自己和丈夫最不愿面对的那个晚上,说到丈夫在那之后甚至都没有掉过一滴眼泪,她怀疑他们的感情是否就此走向终结,所以她选择了离开。她忙于为自己供职的...
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Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie .
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy job living and working in the tourist attraction in present-day London.
Among the eccentric characters who call the Tower’s maze of ancient buildings and spiral staircases home are the Tower’s Rack & Ruin barmaid, Ruby Dore, who just found out she’s pregnant; portly Valerie Jennings, who is falling for ticket inspector Arthur Catnip; the lifelong bachelor Reverend Septimus Drew, who secretly pens a series of principled erotica; and the philandering Ravenmaster, aiming to avenge the death of one of his insufferable ravens.
When Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise “runs” away.
Filled with the humor and heart that calls to mind the delightful novels of Alexander McCall Smith, and the charm and beauty of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is a magical, wholly original novel whose irresistible characters will stay with you long after you turn the stunning last page.
一个慢热的温情故事,伦敦塔和地铁失物招领处,各国元首送给女王的诡异动物都是看点和笑点
评分伦敦塔秘密动物园~台湾已经有翻译版~
评分一个慢热的温情故事,伦敦塔和地铁失物招领处,各国元首送给女王的诡异动物都是看点和笑点
评分不是我的菜,看不下去了。
评分一个慢热的温情故事,伦敦塔和地铁失物招领处,各国元首送给女王的诡异动物都是看点和笑点
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书