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Four dark and compelling novellas about love gone wrong, from the twice Pulitzer Prize-shortlisted Joyce Carol Oates. 'A writer of extraordinary strengths' "Guardian

Nini and Jameelah are fourteen. They don't want to grow up. But they do want to lose their virginity.As the long summer holidays stretch out before them, Berlin becomes their playground. The days all merge into one: swimming, smoking, shoplifting, and hanging out with friends from their estate. At night they descend on the red light district, impersonating the prostitutes there in order to practise for their first time, giggling to each other,...

One woman's fear is a another woman's weapon... A woman sets out to destroy a female colleague in this chilling psychological thriller."When I look back on my relationship with Kathy I marvel at how naive she was, how little she knew.But then, she always thought she had everything: the job, the baby, the friends, and him. She thought she was safe. She thought that nothing could touch her perfect world.She should never have trusted me.

The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels for their role in Ireland's most significant rebellion since 1798 transformed Irish public opinion: a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers were now feted as national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 would go on to plan a new - and ultimately successful - struggle for Irelan...

A new edition of the classic book which provides a humane portrait of the last days and last rulers of the Russian Empire. From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Peter The Great".

Author of The Dalai Lama's cat"--Cover.