Electric Feather : The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories

What About Me?
by Kate Figes

Dear Diary Its my 14th birthday tomorrow and Im going shopping with Mum. Id rather go with Ruby, Fran, Nat, Hayley, Saskia, and Serena but I need her credit card. Mum has put on SOOOOO much weight. If I ever got THAT FAT Id have to kill myself. And she told me my MY bum looked big! FROM: SUE SENT: Sat 16th June 22:59 TO: ANGELA JAMES Ange DarlingTop Shop is living hell! I spent a fortune on Frankie and she hasnt even said Thank You! Next time Ill give her 100 and be done with it. And now the whole gang are downstairs, screaming and hugging each other in front of a vampire movie. They resemble very noisy bees, swarming into the house, depositing trainers and heading straight for the fridge. Mother-daughter relations come under strain during one particularly dramatic year in the life of the Wilcox family. But two very different versions of the same story emerge through Sues emails to her sister, and the inimitable voice of 14-year-old Frankie in her diary. The angst of middle age and adolescence may be at opposite ends of the spectrum, but perhaps they have more in common than meets the eye?Highly promotable author. Guaranteed review attention.

wickedly funny,perceptive and at times very tender,What About Me? is a wonderful portrait of real life in an average house-hold,sure to strike a familiar chord with mothers and daughters everywhere.

The eMedha Paradigm
by Rakesh Misra

Kalpana realizes too late that she is the scapegoat designate in a billion dollar corporate battle. Anonymous emails, body-shopping czars of the sub continent and survival of two mega-corps at stake!!If this wasn't chaotic enough, Kalpana gets involved in a mid-air crash and experiences an unbelievable meeting with Kamayani, who is Secretary-of-earthly-Affairs of almighty God.

Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities.But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.