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You must have some ego to think that every girl who rides in the back of your car wants to kiss you.Fashion designer Tara Devine is the poster girl for behaving badly. It’s a total sham, but she’s always pulled it off… until Michael Cruz saunters into her life, threatening to upturn everything!It’s bad girl vs bad boy – and, if she’s honest, Michael puts her efforts to shame! But one wild night later Tara realises that Michael’s bed is the only place she hasn’t faked it in years and the battle lines are drawn! Because Michael might have got under her clothes, but anywhere near her heart… ? Not likely!

The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating, and I recognise it: it is time I wrote another story from that landscape, external and internal at the same time, which was once the Old Chief’s Country.’ Doris Lessing, from the PrefaceThis much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa and the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village – all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of all the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their living. In Doris Lessing’s own words, ‘Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.’