知名旅行文学作家

1、每日中文書訊請上以下大苹果網站查詢部落格: 網址: Limey GumshoeThe Hapless Adventures of a High-visibility Undercover Detectiveby Will Randall知名旅行文學作家所羅門時光（Solomon Time）暢銷作家著作翻譯版權已售德國義大利、捷克與韓國作品銷售超過10萬本【關於Will Randall】作者網站： Will Randall旅行文學作家。在英國受教育，曾經教學長達十年。後曾旅居南太平洋各島。在旅途中，總是會發

2、生許多趣事與命運的奇妙轉折，將他帶向與眾不同的際遇，他將自己在世界各角落發生的離奇趣事記錄下來，幽默的寫作方法與奇特的遭遇，讓他的作品十分受到歡迎，最著名的作品為所羅門時光（Solomon Time）。作者作品翻譯版權曾售德國、義大利、捷克與韓國。作品已銷售超過10萬本。現居美國。作者訪問影片：。【作者作品】簡繁體版權正熱烈洽詢中INDIAN SUMMERSOLOMON TIMEBOTSWANA TIMEANOTHER LONG DAY ON THE PISTELIMEY GUMSHOEAbout the AuthorWill Randall is an ex-schoolteacher an

3、d writer who has travelled, taught, and found himself in outlandish situations all over the world. Educated in London, he taught languages in the English west country for ten years before moving to live in the South Pacific islands. He is best known for his book Solomon Time.His 2003 book Indian Sum

4、mer is about time he spent teaching in a school for orphans in Poona, India. While in India he also spent some time in the Indian film industry; he had a small role in The Legend of Bhagat Singh and a larger role in An Ideal Wedding.He is currently in the United States.Praise for Will Randall:For BO

5、TSWANA TIME“This is a good-humoured book, written by a man who went to Botswana with an open heart. The result is a wonderful, amusing and affirmative book about that remarkable country, filled with laughter, colour, and simple decency. Bravo, Mr Randall. Bravo.”Alexander McCall Smith, author of THE

6、 NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY“This enchanting chronicle will leave you feeling charmed and uplifted.” Mail on SundayFor INDIAN SUMMER“Many great writers have written about their time in the East; Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster and Rudyard Kipling among them. Even if he never writes about India agai

7、n, Will Randall should be added to this illustrious list.”Daily Express“Randall kaleidoscopically evokes his changing perceptions of the countrys extraordinary diversity in a travelogue full of sensuous detail, humour and poignancy.”ObserverLIMEY GUMSHOE2009年暢銷發行平裝本Hardcover: 256 pages出版社：Abacus (29

8、 May 2008)平裝本：29 May 2009審閱資料：電子手稿分類：Non-FictionISBN-13: 978-0349120393Amazon: 波札那時光（Solomon Time）暢銷旅行作家Will Randall這次居然當上私家偵探。只要遇到他聲名狼藉的旅行搭檔Makepeace，生活就會變得刺激。Makepeace介紹Will Randall他工作的偵探社。Will Randall狐狸糊塗當上私家偵探實習生。他跟蹤行蹤詭異的丈夫們、參加血液噴濺軌跡研討會等等。當他追蹤16歲的失蹤少女、為了正義幫小男孩爭取住房，也見識了這個職業的危險性。時而幽默，時而緊張，透過旅行作家Wi

9、ll Randall特別的角度讓我們對於私家偵探古怪的真實生活開了眼界，不再只是偵探小說中的虛構人物。Product DescriptionHouse-sitting in Boston one winter, Will Randall picks up with one of his more disreputable travel buddies, Jack J. Makepeace, and life gets a great deal more exciting. Makepeace introduces Randall to his current employers, Chestn

10、ut Investigations, and soon Will finds himself appointed apprentice Private Investigator. He tails mongrels and errant husbands, attends a seminar on Blood Spatter and is recruited in a lapdancing club by an anti-government go-go girl. Then emotional stakes are suddenly raised when Will Randall, unl

11、ikely Limey Gumshoe, finds himself investigating the disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl from her affluent home, and fighting to save a vulnerable boy from the housing projects from a miscarriage of justice. With his latest adventures in Limey Gumshoe, Will Randall gives us an often hilarious,

12、sometimes scary, eye-opening perspective on the bizarre world of private investigation.As the latest addition to Bostons P.I. community, Randall tails mongrels and errant husbands, attends a seminar on Blood Spatter and is recruited in a lapdancing club by an anti-government go-go girl. Then emotion

13、al stakes are suddenly raised when Will Randall, unlikely Limey Gumshoe, finds himself investigating the disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl from her affluent home, and fighting to save a vulnerable boy from the housing projects from a miscarriage of justice.Another Long Day on the PisteA Seaso

14、n in the French Alps Hardcover: 288 pages出版社：Little, Brown Book Group; illustrated edition (May 28, 2008) 分類：旅行文學審閱資料: 電子手稿ISBN-13: 978-0349119342Amazon: ReviewUnremittingly calamitous, self-deprecating and entertaining DAILY MAIL SKI + SNOWBOARD Highly entertaining . . . there is much pointed irony

15、 and satire to enjoy THE TIMES .side-splittingly funny. Randall is a gifted raconteur. FRENCH NEWS timely and humorous DAILY MIRROR Droll SCOTSMAN Randall entertains with expertly executed anecdotes about drag lift disasters, the flirtatious lingo of apres-ski and the benefits of a sport that daily

16、reminds you that there is always someone more useless than you - unless of course there isnt INDEPENDENT Product DescriptionWriter, adventurer, ex-teacher, and veteran of numerous travel catastrophes, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of

17、this has prepared him for a season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous, hard-drinking ex-students. In the charming Alpine backwater of Mont St. Bernard, Wills adventures start badly when he spends his first night in a freezing garage under a pile of unwashed socks. Dismally unfashionable and hopele

18、ss at skiing, he realizes he must compete for the attention of the female population with goatee-wearing, lip-studded dudes15 years his junior. He attempts a stint as a chalet girl for a lodge full of American bankers, which ends in disaster. But when a Russian oligarchand hair-raising entouragearri

19、ves in the resort and selects Will to tutor his son, rejection and public humiliation could turn out to be the least of Wills worries. His adventures both on the slopes and in the strange, romantic mountain commmunity are beautifully and wittily documented and will win him yet more fans asa most ent

20、ertaining and warm-hearted travel writer. 波札那時光Botswana TimeHardcover: 288 pages出版社：Abacus; New edition edition (6 April 2006) 分類：旅行文學審閱資料：電子檔ISBN-13: 978-0349117782Amazon: Will Randall總任由命運帶領他的旅行，如在印度的夏天中，他碰巧地幫助貧窮學生拯救他們的學校。而在本書中，他恰巧有機會成為波札那一間小學的校長，這間學校的學生十分迷戀足球，因此他的主要工作之一就是帶他們去附近的學校踢足球，然而所謂的附近，常常都是

21、100英里遠。在波札那他見識到許多特別的風土民情，上千隻羚羊、大象、水牛、斑馬等跟著他們、半夜擾人清夢的竟是獅子的叫聲等此書獲得許多好評與Amazon五顆星推薦，請跟著Will Randall體驗奇趣的波札那ReviewMail on Sunday, You Magazine, 19 June 2005This enchanting chronicle will leave you feeling charmed and uplifted -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Ind

22、ependent on Sunday, May 29, 2005A thoroughly uplifting book. -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product DescriptionWill Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on a play to help save their school. In Botswana he was taken up by a headmaster to teach a class of six year olds at The River