![]() ![]() "Bathtime" tells the story of a woman's life through her attempts to build the perfect bathtub, chasing an elusive moment of peace. In a Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale turned on its head, a miller's daughter rises to power and wealth to rule over her kingdom and outwit the title villain. The stories in The Vanishing Princess showcase a rarely seen side of this beloved writer, channeling both the piercing social examination of her nonfiction and the vivid, dreamlike landscapes of her novels. In a cool and unflinching tone that came to define her singular voice, she explored the subjects of sex, power, domesticity, femininity, hysteria, and loneliness with humor and honesty, ![]() ![]() When she died of cancer in April 2016, after chronicling her illness in strikingly honest essays in the London Review of Books, readers, admirers, and critics around the world mourned the loss. Jenny Diski's prose is as sharp and steely as her imagination is wild and wondrous. "Mordant and talon-sharp." -Dwight Garner, New York Times, on Jenny Diski The only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski-darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clearly too much to cover in one volume, so Fernadez-Armesto provides much local colour. around the corner are the Mughals and the Saffavid Dynasty in Persia. ![]() It was also the era of the Aztec, Maya and Inca empires, the Ming Dynasty, the rise of Russia under Ivan the Great, the Ottoman Empire, the Songhay Empire in Africa, and Mamluk Egypt. We are encouraged in the West to have a firmly Eurocentric view of 1492 - the year of the conquest of Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, as well as Columbus sailing the ocean blue - but this expanded my horizons usefully. That kind of distance would not be possible again. Columbus set sail with a letter of introduction to the Great Khan of China, the last of whom had actually been unseated over a century earlier, in 1368. 1492 was 'the year the world began', argues the author, because at that point the human race, which had developed divergently on separate continents, became convergent with the meeting of Europe and the Americas, followed by the establishment of modern globalisation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when his beautiful rebel finds an unconventional cause, Lockwood has to decide if he's willing to sacrifice everything to keep her. Their secret affair turns scorching, far more than either expected. His brow furrowed even more he shifted towards her and then shifted back right. This uptight duke is far more than he lets on, and she can't resist him. Sierra Simone, Joanna Shupe, Eva Leigh, Nicola Davidson, Adriana Herrera. Except Nellie sees through Lockwood's charade, straight to the real man underneath. The last thing he needs is another scandal. While in New York he's the perfect gentleman, and no one knows he's suppressing his darkest desires. To save his estate, the proper Duke of Lockwood must marry the perfect bride-wealthy, with an unblemished reputation. Now she dedicates herself to hedonistic pleasures only, like kissing a handsome stranger in the ocean under the moonlight. To escape the shackles of marriage, Nellie Young purposely ruined her reputation a long time ago. ![]() By beloved USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe, the fourth installment in the Fifth Avenue Rebels series about a secret affair between a free-spirited heiress and an uptight duke which turns more passionate than either could have imagined. ![]() |