Al Rodin is a writer and illustrator from London. He studied children's book illustration at Cambridge School of Art and received the 2019 Sebastian Walker Prize. Al enjoys working with a wide variety of materials including acrylic, watercolour and collage. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries around Europe and Asia, and he was selected for lllustrators' Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2019. Little Echo is his first book.

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Alain Gheerbrant

Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The School of Life: An Emotional Education, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love. He is the founder of The School of Life (theschooloflife.com).

Alain de Botton

Alaina Urquhart is the science-loving co-host of the chart-topping show Morbid: A True Crime Podcast. As an autopsy technician by trade, she offers a unique perspective from deep inside the morgue. Alaina hails from Boston, where she lives with her wonderful husband, John, their three amazing daughters, and a ghost Puggle named Bailey. She is about 75 percent coffee, and truly believes she and Agent Clarice Starling could be friends. 
 
Before writing her first psychological horror novel, she received degrees in criminal justice, psychology, and biology. When she isn't hosting Morbid, she hosts the Parcast original show Crime Countdown, and a horror movie podcast called Scream!. Her days are usually spent either recording or eviscerating. The way she sees it, when she hangs up her microphone for the day, it's time to let the dead speak.

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Alan Alda

Alan Ayckbourn

Born in London in 1939, Alan Ayckbourn is one of  the world's most popular and prolific playwrights. He has written 74  full length plays and more than 20 other revues and plays for children.  He is also an acclaimed director. Alan Ayckbourn was awarded a CBE in  1987. Ten years later to the day, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II  'for services to the theatre.'

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Alan Beattie

Alan Bennett is one of Britain's best-loved and most highly acclaimed writers. He has written widely for radio, television and theatre. His latest play, The History Boys, won several awards, including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. It also won six Tony Awards, including Best Play, following an extremely successful transfer to Broadway. In 2006 Bennett was named Author of the Year at the British Book Awards for Untold Stories, his collection of memoirs and diaries.

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett's television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) and an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the South Bank Award.

Alan Bishop

ALAN BOOTH was born in London in 1946 and travelled to Japan in 1970 to study Noh theatre. He stayed, working as a writer and film critic, until his untimely death in 1993.

Alan Booth

Alan Brazil is a Scottish broadcasting legend and former football player, most notably for Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and internationally for Scotland. He played as a forward before being forced to retire due to a recurring back injury. 
 
After retirement, Alan moved into media presentation, initially on television, before a career in radio where for many years he has presented the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on TalkSPORT.

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Alan Carr

Alan Carr is one of Britain's most successful and treasured comedians. His unique humour and effortless stage presence have earned him a catalogue of awards including Best Chat Show host at the publicly voted for 2015 National Television Awards, winner of the 2013 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and 2013 British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. In previous years he has garnered a clutch of awards, from the 2012 National Television Award for Best Talk Show and the 2012 Loaded LAFTA Award for Best Stand-up to the 2010 TV Choice Awards for Best Entertainment Show. There were also nominations for Best New British Comedy &amp; Best Comedy Entertainment Personality at the 2009 British Comedy Awards. 
 
The success of the first series of his own chat show, 'Alan Carr: Chatty Man', in the summer of 2009, led to Channel 4 commissioning 16 further series' as well as numerous Christmas Specials and New Year Specstaculars. In September 2013, the 100th episode aired with A-list guests Justin Timberlake and Rihanna. Guests from past series include: Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Vin Diesel, Adele, Grace Jones, Naomi Campbell, Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Robin Williams, David Walliams, Mariah Carey, Russell Brand, Samuel L Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Robbie Williams, Bette Midler, Sharon Osbourne, One Direction, Gok Wan and Miranda Hart. 
 
The DVD of Alan's 2007 debut stand-up show, 'Tooth Fairy Live' topped the HMV charts and was a Christmas 2007 top seller. 
 
His best-selling debut autobiography 'Look Who It Is' was published in September 2008 by HarperCollins. 
 
In 2011, Alan travelled the country with his second live tour. 'Spexy Beast Live' was a 33-date arena tour and culminated in the successful DVD of the same name. 
 
Throughout 2015, Alan hit the road once again and performed at over 150 sold-out theatre's across the UK and Ireland with his 'Yap, Yap, Yap!' live show. His third stand up DVD 'Alan Carr - Yap Yap Yap! Live' was released by Universal Pictures (UK) in November 2016. 
 
2016 has also seen Alan go global with international performances of his Yap Yap Yap! live show throughout Scandinavia, Montreal (at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival) and can currently be seen on tour this summer in New Zealand and Australia this summer, with two shows at the iconic Sydney Opera House. 
 
Alan also hosts Channel 4's flagship fundraising show 'Stand Up To Cancer' which in 2014 went on to raise an amazing £14 million for Cancer Research. Alan returns once again to host 'Stand Up To Cancer' on Channel 4 this October. 
 
Alanatomy: The Inside Story is Alan's second memoir, and will be published by Penguin in October 2016.

Alan Clark

Alan Clements

Alan Connor is the author of Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword ("witty, charming, encyclopaedic and highly readable" - Spectator) and The Joy of Quiz ("An absolute delight" - Mail on Sunday). He has made quizzes for various TV shows and newspapers and written comedy including BBC Film's The Rack Pack, A Young Doctor's Notebook (Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe) and Have I Got News For You.

Alan Connor

Alan Connor has been the question editor for BBC2's Only Connect and Richard Osman's House of Games. He is the author of books for Pointless and The Traitors and is the puzzle consultant for the BBC1 drama Ludwig. He writes puzzles for various newspapers and has written for Charlie Brooker series and Have I Got News for You. His favourite quiz question is: What word was intentionally omitted from the screenplay of The Godfather?

Alan Cowell

Alan Curtis

Alan Cutler

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Juliet Hastings

Kate is a successful management consultant. When she's asked to run a training course at an exclusive hotel at short notice, she thinks the stress will be too much. But three of the participants are young, attractive, powerful men, and Kate cannot resist the temptation to get to know them sexually as well as professionally. Her problem is that one of the women on the course is feeling left out. 
 
Jealousy and passion simmer beneath the surface as Kate tries to get the best performance out of all her clients.

Crash Course

Maria Del Rey

Sexual diversity is the hallmark of Maria del Rey's work. Here, for the first time in one volume, is a collection of her kinkiest stories - each one striking in its originality - with settings to suit all tastes. Fetishists, submissives and errant tax inspectors mingle with bitch goddesses, naughty girls and French maids in this eclectic anthology of forbidden games. 
 
From the austere environment of a Victorian punishment room to the private but thrilling world of a present-day SM Dungeon, Maria flavours her stories with a subtle but very effective taste for the bizarre.

Dark Desires

Melissa Macneal

Destitute following her father's death, young Mary Grace visits the handsome but lecherous mortician Hyde Fortune, who once promised her employment. It isn't too long before they are consummating their lust for each other and involving Fortune's housekeeper, the exotic Yu Ling, and his dark assistant Sebastian. 
 
When Fortune gets Mary a live-in position as a seamstress at Heaven's Gate - a local Abbey - she envisions a time of abstinence and piety. The monks, however, are a randy lot and her assigned roommate Sybil quickly teaches her the ins and outs of their erotic rituals - much to the delight of Father Luc and her voyeur lover, Hyde Fortune.

Devil's Fire

P S Brett

Having taken up the reins of river-side casino The Paddle-Boat, the sexy and wickedly imaginative Valerie McKnight is determined to bring a new service to her thrill-seeking gamblin public. Her beautuful croupiers are re-trained to provide a sideline in Domination and Fantasy in the cellar of the grand casino building. Rumours alone soon attract the attention of many curious local gents.

Dice With Domination

Esme Ombreux

Jem Darke, A Mistress of the Private House, is bored. So bored that she rashly accepts a challenge to submit to the harsh discipliary regime at the Chateau, where the Chatelaine and her depraved minions will delight in administering torments and humiliaton designed to make Jem abandon the wager and relinquish her supreme authority. 
Only the Sapphic bond formed between Jem and the other captives will give them the strength to surprise their tormentors - only their acceptance of the strict rules of pleasure and pain will win them freedom.

Discipline of the Private House

Wendy Swanscombe

Three sisters. Anna, Beth, Gwen. Blonde, red, raven. They are hired as secretaries by a wealthy European artist and collector who seems obsessed with their hair - and the whiteness of their skin. They travel to his remote château in the Black Forest, and are sucked into a vortex of erotic obsession and S&amp;M as they learn that their employer means to change their lives - and their bodies - for ever.

Disciplined Skin

Lisette Allen

When Norman soldiers besiege a convent on a summer's day in 1070, a young saxon girl, Elena, is taking captive. She is chosen by the dark and masterfull Lord Aimery Le Sabrenn to satisfy his savage desires. 
 
Captivated by his powerful masculinity, Elena is then horriffed to discover she is not the only woman in his castle. The sinister Lady Isobel - Le Sabrenn's wife - is a cruel rival and out to destroy her. 
 
Packed with brawny Saxons and cruel Normans, this fun historical erotic novel explores jealousy and seduction in the time of William the Conquerer.

Elena's Conquest

The stunning sequel to Elena's Conquest. 
 
The year is 1073. The gentle convent-bred Elena awakened to the joys of forbidden passion by the masterful knight Aimery le Sabrenn, has been forcibly separated from her lover by war. She is haunted by the memory of him. Then fate brings her to William the Conqueror's dark stronghold of Rouen, and a reunion with Aimery. 
 
Although Elena is still captivated by his powerful masculinity,she discovers that Aimery is no longer hers. As the King's formidable knights prepare for war, Elena must fight a desperate battle for Aimery against her two rivals: the scheming Isobel and a wanton heiress called Henriette. Dangerous games are played amidst the increasing tension of a merciless siege.

Elena's Destiny

1890s New Orleans keeps its secrets like a sultry courtesan, but when the prim and proper Miss Eve spied Chapin, her husband, with a little blonde secret of his own, her anger turns to longing. How can she learn to ignite her husband's passion? Her brother-in-law, the enigmatic Dewel, suggests the highly skilled maids from the School of Domestic Endeavour. They arrive, along with the bewitching Monique, to train Eve in the ways of Seduction. However, things spin rapidly out of control. The maids are not what they seem, and lessons in deportment soon turn into a spanking party! When Chapin discovers these curious trysts, Eve fears she will lose her prestigious place in New Orleans society. Then Chapin's covert life unravels to reveal the biggest secret of all. 
 
Mc MacNeal is the undisputed queen of kinky erotica set in the world of corsets and chaperones.

Evil's Niece

Laura Hamilton

At work Nina is known as the Ice Queen, as her frosty demeanour makes her colleagues think she's equally cold in bed. But what they don't know is that she spends her free time acting out sleazy scenarios with her boyfriend, Andrew, in which she's a prostitute and he's a punter. 
 
But when Andrew starts inviting his less-than-respectable friends to join in their games, things begin to get strange and Nina finds herself being drawn deeper into London's seedy underworld, where everything is for sale and nothing is what it seems.

Fire And Ice

Fleur Reynolds

A lavish erotic historical set in 3rd Century Syria... 
 
Palmyra: a lush oasis in the heart of the Syrian Desert. The inquisitive, beautiful and fiercely independent Samoya takes her place as apprentice priestess in the temple of Antich. Decadent bachelor Prince Alif has other ideas. He wants a wife, and sends his equally lascivious sister to bring Samoya to the Bacchanalian wedding feast he is preparing. Samoya embarks on a journey that will alter the course of her life. Before reaching her destination, she is to encounter Marcus, the battle-hardened centurion who will unearth the core of her desires.

Handmaiden of Palmyra

Laura Bowen

When Julia Dixon marries her boyfriend Andrew she knows nothing of his association with The Syndicate, a secretive organisation devoted to the exploration of sex. Unwittingly becoming an apprentice to this clandestine corporation - where all new recruits are given a name beginning with C - Julia, now known as Caroline, is made to re-examine her clear-cut principles as a series of strange erotic challenges obliges her to confront her most bizarre desires.

Julia C

Stefan Gerrard

The letters were found in a locked briefcase in a London mansion. Shocking and explicit, they are all addresed to the same mysterious woman: Chloe. It is clear that the relationship between the writer and Chloe is no ordinary one, but a liaison governed by power, which transforms an innocent young woman into a powerful sexual enigma. Each letter pushes Chloe a little nearer to the limitsof sexual role-play until, as events reach their climax, the question must be asked: who is really in control.

Letters To Chloe

Monica Belle

Annabelle doesn't want to work. She wants to spend her time riding, attending exotic dinner parties and indulging herself in even more exotic sex...at her father's expense. 
 
Unfortunately daddy has other ideas, and when she writes off his new Jaguar, it is the final straw. Sent to work in the City, Annabelle quickly finds that it is not easy to fit in, especially when what she thinks of as harmless, playful sex has most of her new acquaintances reeling in

Noble Vices

This is the story of Lucy Doyle, a red-haired and hot-tempered London Irish girl with her eyes on the prize- and young men's trousers. Her family have got her a job in a Parochial House in North London for the summer, between leaving school and going to university, but she signs up as an office temp, faking her reference and chancing her luck. Along with fellow recruits - the ladylike but filthy Bobbie and the completely dirty Sophie - this cheeky 'flower of Erin' carves a swathe of debauchery through London's office land, collecting lovers, outraging her bosses and drinking far too much as she causes havoc in the way only a bad girl can

Office Perks

Yolanda Celbridge

When four cheeky girls are recruited to live rent-free in a large house near Cambridge, it doesn't take them long to realize that their benefactor has more in mind than their welfare. Every room in the house is filled with hidden video cameras, which are linked up to a number of voyeur websites. They also realize that their weekly stipend varies according to how much spanking they receive - which leads to increasingly exhibitionist behavior.

Peeping At Pamela

William Doughty

The young servant girl slid helplessly into the foaming water which filled her mistress's marble bath.Her black and white maid's uniform was instantly drenched and clung to her in a way that outlined every part of her curvaceous body. 
 
"We may, in the seclusion of this home, begin to explore what most people would think of as forbidden pleasures." 
 
With these words Robert Shanescrosse introduces his young and beautiful wife to the peculiar delights he shares with his carefully selected servants at the most peculiar house in Victorian England. Yet he has an even darker secret which requires everyone at the manor to work hard to satisfy the strange desires of three men of dubious integrity. 
 
Why does the puritanical Mr Blanking send young ladies into muddy pond wearing only theit hats? Can the wicked Sir Horace ever obtain the satisfaction he craves through cruelty? And why is David making such strange demands? How can Robert, Jane and their servants offer pleasures extreme enough to please them?

Pleasing Them

Lois Phoenix

Private detective Toni Marconi has one golden rule: always mix business with pleasure. Provided, that is, she can be in charge. When she sets out on the trail of a missing heiress her friends worry she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Toni's leads take her to a nightclub on the edge of the Arizona desert where she meets characters with even stranger sexual appetites than her own. And then there is 'Red' - the enigmatic biker who holds a volatile sexual attraction for her. One thing's for sure, Toni will not give in until she's satisfied, whatever the consequences.

Queen of the Road

Alison Tyler

When graphic designer Charlene Mitchell waves goodbye to the glitter of LA and moves to a small northern Californian beachside town called Raysville, she is charmed by its close-knit community - until she becomes the subject of gossip for making out with a local firefighter. Soon, it seems that everyone in the town has formed an opinion about her. In the neighbourhood bar, corner store, and even the bakery, there are whispers about Charlene's scandalous sex life. Frustrated by her inability to live down the rumours, Charlene enlists the help of her old college buddy, Mia, who heads to Raysville to create a diversion. In trying to make amends for previous wayward antics, the two flighty friends send male libidos haywire - and the local women are not best pleased!

Rumours

Felice De Vere

Heleyna has everything a girl could possibly want - a career, independence, and a very sexy partner, Troy, who is always up for a threesome. Yet she also harbours a burning sexual curiosity about her colleagues; and it's a weakness that will one day get her into big trouble. Agreeing to an invite from her very naughty ex-boss to a frustratingly secretive club, she begins a journey of discovery that both teases and taunts her. Then Sam walks into her life, and he's the hottest creature she's ever set eyes on. Only problem is, he's not only her colleague but also her subordinate. Although Heleyna knows that work and pleasure should always be kept separate, it isn't too long before she realizes she's not the only person in the world feigning a respectable existence.

Sexual Strategy

Stella Black

In this story, Stella lets us in on a rip-snorting adventure of sex, sleaze and horny cowboys. 
 
Things get a little weird out there in the Arizona desert - and when Stella ventures into the heat, the landscape and the inhabitants are rough and ready. 
 
From the author of the erotic memoir, Daddy's Girl.

Shameless

Christina Shelly

Chris is a thirty-year-old transvestite. He is firmly 'in the closet' and spends his evenings alone in his exclusive London apartment, yearning for understanding female company. His shyness with women is a problem, particularly at work where he supervises a lot of them! When his inner life is accidentally discovered, however, he finds his staff more accommodating than he might have thought, and embarks on an odyssey into willing she-male submission and enforced feminisation that will change his life - and those of his colleagues - forever. A tale of kinky cross-dressing and sexual fulfilment from the author of The Last Straw.

Silken Slavery

Nudist genetics student Belle Pudget remains an uncaned submissive until Geisha, slave of dominatrix Dr Jolita Cunliffe, introduces her to bare-bottom chastisement. Belle joins the Paine Institute on a remote island where, free of western taboos, Cunliffe's sadistic rival Darwinia Paine whips her nurses into servitude, trying to unlock the secrets of eternal youth. Belle must ultimately choose whether to bare her buttocks in submission, or wield the lash... forever.

Skin Slave

Jennifer Jane Pope

The fourth book in Jennifer Jane Pope's Slave series continues the story of the bizarre establishment devoted to the satisfaction of specialist tastes, hidden from prying eyes on a remote Scottish island. Here, the rich can indulge their every desire, from SM power games to pony-girl carting, assured of the utmost discretion.

Slave Acts

Detective Sergeant Alex Gregory has found herself prisoner on the slave island run by the mysterious Healthglow corporation. With the outside world convinced she is dead, she is set to join a specially chosen group of slaves on the way to South America and begin a life of toil and torment as a workhorse and pleasure pony under the control of a vicious drugs baron. 
 
Her one slim chance remains the unofficial investigation being conducted by her former colleague, DS Geordie Walker. But will Geordie allow the delectable pony-girl Millie and his own newfound interest in human equestrianism to distract him from her rescue?

Slave Revelations

Astrid Fox

Lilli Sandstrom is an archaeologist in her mid-thirties; cool blond  fisherman Arvak Berg is her good-looking lover. When their tempestuous  relationship becomes too hot to handle Lilli retreats to the northern  forests of her childhood. There, in the beauty of the wilderness, she is  seduced by a fellow archaeologist, woodcutter Henrik and the glacial  but bewitching Malin. However Arvak is constantly in her sexual thoughts  and when she comes across some ancient rune carvings, she discovers  evidence of an old, familiar story that may teach her how to handle the  moody but hunky Arvak.

Snow Blonde

Cat Harrington leads a double life. A Los Angeles script editor with successful engineer boyfriend, she engages in a risky and risqué relationship with Brock, the rough-and-ready head of a movie road crew, who fulfills her sensuous cravings for honest, skin-on-skin sex. He's good-looking. And sexy. And built. Better yet, Brock likes her when she's dirty, while everyone in Cat's world expects her to be squeaky clean. 
 
Before she can make her decision about which man is right for her, her boyfriend is promoted, and his new position puts him directly in charge of her lover. Now Cat is about to learn something about herself, something about her boyfriend - and something about workmen.

Something About Workmen

Carolyn Winters is a smooth-talking disc jockey at a hip LA radio station. Although known for her sexy banter over the airwaves, she leads a reclusive life, despite the urging of her flirtatious roommate, Dahlia. Carolyn grows dependent on living vicariously through Dahlia, eavesdropping and then covertly watching as her roommate's sexual behaviour becomes more and more bizarre. 
 
But something is about to happen that will blow the lid on everyone's secret lives, and Carolyn must overcome her fears in order to see that justice is done. 
 
A tense sexy thriller - for those who like their erotica on the forbidden side.

Strictly Confidential

Jasmine Stone

Annie is blazing a trail of fast living on the West Coast of America. Constantly seeking thrills and intense experiences, she is motivated by a hungry sexuality. Annie also has a philosophical side, however, and this is the story of how she learns to find happiness in her wild life.

Stripped To The Bone

When Melanie joins the staff of The Hotel she enters a world of new sexual experiences and frightening demands, in which there are three kinds of duty she must perform. In this place of luxury and beauty there are many pleasures, serving her deepest desires, but there is also peversity and pain. The Hotel is founded on a strict regime, but Melanie cannot help but break the rules. How can she survive the severe torments that follow?

Surrender

Dream Master

Drenai Novels

DropZone

Duggee's Little Library

Dungeon Crawler Carl Series

Duty Calls

A gripping three-part series based on real historical events. Three Roman legions massacred. Three Imperial Eagles lost. One man vies for revenge.

Eagles of Rome

For thirty years, the O’Donnels have ruled the East End, but there’s a price to pay for this power, and it’s usually in blood.

Eastend Trilogy

Easterleigh Hall

Eat Around Italy

Eat Around Spain

Eat Right For Blood Type

Ebb and Flo

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Elemental Emergence

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Emma and James

Empire of Salt

In the Swedish town of Engelsfors, a mysterious forcedraws seven teenagers together. They are the Chosen Ones, and they have been chosen to drive back the demons that threaten to overwhelm the world

Engelsfors Trilogy

England's Medieval Queens

English Heritage

Erica Martin Thriller

Eternal Ones

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