Alan Paton

Alan Pattullo

Alan Pauls

Alan Pollock is a playwright, translator and screenwriter. His numerous plays include One Night in November, Pigs and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Alan Pollock

Alan Root was born in London in 1937 but moved to Kenya as a young boy. He dropped out of school at sixteen but soon found himself behind the camera. He married Joan Thorpe in 1961 and together they produced an array of award-winning wildlife films including Baobab: Portrait of a Tree, commissioned by David Attenborough, Safari by Balloon, The Year of the Wildebeest and Castles of Clay, which was nominated for an Oscar. Alan won over sixty awards during his career, including an Emmy, three Lifetime Achievement Awards an OBE. Alan Root died in August 2017.

Alan Root

Alan Rosenthal

Alan Ruddock

Alan Rugman

Alan Rusbridger

Alan Ryan

Alan S. Blinder

Alan Shearer CBE  grew up in Newcastle, leaving home as a  teenager to pursue a career in professional football with his first  team, Southampton. He went on to  reach football stardom, winning the Premier League with Blackburn in  1995, breaking the world transfer record by signing to Newcastle United  in 1996 and achieving international success as the Captain of England.  Alan also holds the record for most goals scored in Premier League history.

Alan Shearer

Alan Siegel

Alan Simpson

Alan Spence

Alan Stewart

Alan Taylor

Alan Tennant

Alan Thompson

Alan Titchmarsh MBE is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend, Love Your Garden, Ground Force, Gardeners' World, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Spring Into Summer. He has written more than forty gardening books, as well as twelve novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award.

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Unterman

Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker who was best known for his expertise in Eastern philosophies including Zen Buddhism and Taoism. He wrote over 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, the meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness.

Alan W Watts

Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

Alan Warner

Alan Watts

Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including the global bestseller The World Without Us, which has been translated into 34 international languages and was nominated for numerous awards. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times Magazine and many other places. Alan has worked on all seven continent and reported from 58 countries, and lives in western Massachusetts.

Alan Weisman

Alanna Mitchell

Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist and writer based in Spain. He writes regularly on cycling for the ‘I’, The Independent.co.uk, The Express, ProCycling and Cyclingnews. He has been reporting on the Tour de France and other top road cycling events since 1992. His first book was The Eagle of Toledo, a biography of cycling’s greatest ever climber, Federico Martín Bahamontes. He has also written Reckless, a biography of the ill-fated Luis Ocaña, the 1973 Tour winner and considered Eddy Merck’s top Grand Tour rival, and The End of the Road, an account of the 1998 Tour de France.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Wickham

Alastair Campbell was born in Keighley, Yorkshire in 1957, the son of a vet. Having graduated from Cambridge University in modern languages, he went into journalism, principally with the Mirror Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party, Campbell worked for him first as press secretary, then as official spokesman and director of communications and strategy from 1994 to 2003. He continued to act as an advisor to Mr Blair and the Labour Party, including during subsequent election campaigns. He now splits his time between writing, speaking, politics in Britain and overseas, consultancy and charity, as chairman of fundraising for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, and a leading ambassador for the mental health campaign Time to Change. 
 
He lives in North London with his partner of thirty-five years, Fiona Millar. They have three children. His interests include running, cycling, bagpipes and Burnley Football Club. He has published six volumes of diaries, including the number one Sunday Times bestseller, The Blair Years, a memoir on depression, The Happy Depressive, and three novels.

Alastair Campbell

Alastair Nathan Cook was born in Gloucester, December 1984. He is an English cricketer. He plays for Essex County Cricket Club and previously for England. Cook is the fifth highest Test scorer of all time. 
 
He is regarded as England's most successful batsman ever and now he is an icon and role model in sport. 
 
Outside of cricket, Alastair has written columns in the Telegraph and Metro, he is a talented saxophone player and donates his time to raising money for cancer charities and the David Randall Foundation. He is now married with three children.

Alastair Cook

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Aishling Morgan

This novel traces the history of the innocent but wilful Octavia Challacombe as she is corrupted by the wicked Maray family. Along with Polly Endicott and a group of other buxom Devon girls, she is cajoled and teased into providing increasingly perverse services for the Squire and his family. 
Part of the Cream Series. Other titles include Peaches and Cream and Cream Tease.

Devon Cream

Juliet Hastings

Priss and Diva, 30-something best friends, are taking the holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand. After a spell of relaxation they approach the week-long `mountain trek' brimming with energy and dangerously horny. It's Priss' idea to see if, in the course of one week, they can involve every member of the 12-person trek in their raunchy adventures.  Some are pushovers but others present more of a challenge!

Down Under

Robert Black

The year is 1885, and Dr Reynard, a brilliant young surgeon, is desperate for excitement. A chance meeting with Lord Spearman opens up a whole new world of sexual adventure. Swept along, Dy Reynard finds blackmail threatening to destroy him, and an even darker menace in the fog-bound streets.

Dr.Reynard's Experiment

Robyn Russell

When graphic artist Tanya Trevino creates a sexy alterego in the form of Katrina Cortez, private investigator, she begins to wish her own life were more like that of her comic-strip character's. Gorgeous Stephen Sinclair, who works with Tanya, is her kind of man. Trouble is, she has just moved in with her high-flying bank manager boyfriend who expects her to fit in with his precise routine and play the part of the executive girlfriend. 
 
In her quest to gain Stephen's attention Tanya must transcend the personality traits that prevent her from obeying her desires. She must take risks. She must become more like Katrine Cortez - voluptous wild woman!

Drawn Together

Young academic Catherine de la Tour is not content. Her lover James is a thousand miles away and she needs to get a grip on her work, her man and her life. When she accepts a post as artist-in residence at Cambridge she thinks it'll be just the break she needs. But once there she soon gets involved in the world sex lives of both her male and female students.

Dreaming Spires

Savannah Smythe

When Rachel's husband abandons both her and his taxi-cab business and flees the country, she is left to pick up the pieces. As Rachel transforms the business into an exclusive chauffeur service for discerning gentlemen, she also has to manage an increasingly complicated love life with two very different men. 
 
What she does not know is that one of them, the sophisticated and very married Adrian, is a jewel thief, while her other new lover has exotic tastes in sexual experimentation. As Rachel is lured into an underworld lifestyle of champagne, diamonds and lustful indulgence, she finds a familiar face is involved in some very shady activity!

Driven By Desire

Tabitha Flyte

Sophie wants money, big money. After twelve years working as a croupier on the Carribean cruise ships, she has devised a scheme that is her ticket to Freedomsville. But she can't do it alone; she has to encourage her colleagues to help her, and some of them are a little reluctant. Persuasion turns to seduction, which turns to blackmail. Then there are prying passengers, tropical storms and an angry, jealous girlfriend to contend with. And what happens when the lascivious Captain decides to stick his oar in, too?

Full Steam Ahead

Lyn Wood

Fiona finds herself on a word-games holiday with her best pal. At first it seem like a boring way to spend the week away. Then she realises she's on a treasure hunt with a difference. Solving the riddle embroils her in a series of sexy situations as the clues get ever more outrageous. It's a race to the finish with people cheating, partnerships changing and lots of the competitors getting off with each other. Fiona needs an analytical mind and an encyclopaedic knowledge of sex to be in with a chance of winning. And she can't do it all on her own.

Game For Anything

Yvonne Marshall

Lucy has been submissive for as long as she can remember, but she knows that she'll have to change if her marriage to tycoon Don Langford is to survive. A former lover can help her, but on one condition - that she reports to a Japanese brothel for training. When she returns to confront Don, it is Lucy who gives the orders.

Grooming Lucy

Zoe Le Verdier

Wayward wives, female voyeurs, and women who have a weakness for kinky clothes and men much younger than them. They're all here, in this collection of sexy stories by one of Black Lace's best-liked authors. 
 
Zoe le Verdier isn't afraid to explore the most explicit female fantasies. A range of sexual fetishism to sex with a stranger and lusty interludes with your car mechanic. 
 
Zoe's stories all have present-day settings and feature strong women who aren't afraid to take the plunge and enjoy themselves. These powerfully erotic tales push the boundaries of women's erotica and are unashamedly hot!

Insomnia

Nan Tidon and her friend Megan attend a residential art course, where a strong sexual undercurrent runs through the bizarre events and eccentric characters they encounter. The whole story is presented and set in a hilarious and lively context.

Intense Blue

Arabella Knight

Hot on the trail of a young, aristocratic credit-card defaulter, Emma Wyndlesham visits Laments Hall - an institution to which the privileged consign their wayward daughters for discipline under the stern governance of Dr Flint. 
 
Groomed for a future within the institution, Emma quickly comes to put her new skills into practice. But painful lessons must be learned if Emma is to demonstrate her devotion to discipline.

Intimate Instruction

Charlotte Royal

Brought up in a convent in Transylvania, orphaned Justine is confused when wanderer Armand offers her bodily pleasures without the blessing of the church. Disgraced in the eyes of the nuns, she is banished to Waldgraf castle where the Count throws her into the coal mines for a life of servitude.

Invitation To Sin

Ruth Fox

After an unexpected introduction to S&amp;M on a train, Cassie is consumed by a need to explore the intriguing world it promises - a world of bondage, domination and her submission. She agrees to give herself to the inscrutable Mr King for a day, to sample the pleasures of his complete control over her. 
 
She is tormented, humiliated and used but finds herself hooked on the curious games they play. Her lesbian lover, Becky, is shocked but agrees to Cassie visiting Mr King once more. It is then that she is initiated into the debauched Cheesman Club, where she is expected to go much further than she ever imagined she dare...

King's Pawn

Emma Holly

Bookstore owner Kate comes home from work one day to find her two flatmates in bed...together. Joe - a sensitive composer - is mortified. Sean - an irrepressible bad boy - asks her to join in! 
 
Kate's been fantasising about her hunky new housesmates since they moved in, but she was convinced they were both gay. Realising that pleasure is a multi-faceted thing, she sets her cares aside and embarks on a ménage à trois with the wild duo. Kate wants nothing more than to keep both her admirers happy, but inevitably things become complicated, especially at work. Kate has told her colleagues that Joe and Sean are gay but the gossip begins when she's caught in a clinch with one of them in her lunch hour! To add to this, one of Kate's more conservative suitors is showing interest again, but she's hooked on the different kind of loving that she enjoys with her boys - even though she knows it cannot last. Or can it?

Menage

Yolanda Celbridge

When European nurses are interned by the Japanese on the remote Pacific island of Okuna during World War Two, they are forced into cruel familiarity with their captors' almost feudal codes of punishment. But soon their submission becomes a matter of pride, forcing the camp's officers to question who's really in control, until only one thing's for sure - no one's in a hurry for the war to end.

Nurses Enslaved

Suki Cunningham

When London actress Holly Parker arrives in a remote Cornish village to begin rehearsing a new play, everyone there - from her landlord to her theatre director - seems to have an earthier attitude towards sex. Brought to a state of constant sexual arousal and confusion, Holly seeks guidance in the form of local therapist, Joshua Delaney. He is the one man who can't touch her - but he is the only one she truly desires. Will she be able to use her new-found sense of sexual adventure to seduce him?

Opening Acts

Jan Smith

Disillusioned following the break-up of her marriage, Claire finds her sexuality reawakened by the mysterious Stuart MacIntosh. He draws her into a sensual intrigue involving one of his rich clients, and her best friend. Then Claire's ex-husband appears on the scene. Who can she really trust?

Palazzo

Tina Troy

Lili wrestles men for money. And they pay well. She's the best in the business and her powerful body and stunning looks have her gentleman visitors begging for more rough treatment. Her golden rule is never to date a client, but when James Travers starts using her services she relents and accepts a date. 
 
Lili cannot help but be intrigued by his mystery, power and obvious wealth. But is she doing the right thing by getting involved with a stranger? Always a control freak, she discovers her own pleasure is in submission of a different kind. It is a conflict that's difficult to live with.

Playing Hard

Jan Harlow

Mariella, like her father before her, is an astrologer. Before she can inherit his fortune, she must fulfil the terms of his will. He wants her to write an explicitly sexual, accurate account of the male sexual habits of the twelve star signs. Naughty Mariella's aroused by the challenge, but she has her work cut out: she has only one year to complete the book and must have a full-on sex session with a man of each sign in order to fulfil the obligation. From hot-headed Aries, who's up for it anytime, anywhere, through to languid Pisces, who likes to take his own sweet time, Mariella sets about researching her zodiac lovers' technique with much enthusiasm. Which sign will she rate highest?

Playing With Stars

Leona Rhys

A story of sexual enlightenment at the dawn of human history. 
 
At the end of the ice age, a beautiful female shaman is searching for answers in a world of sabre-toothed tigers and glaciers. Her nomadic journey is full of adventure, sexual experimentation and ritual.

Primal Skin

Helena Ravenscroft

An overbearing brother and a bullying husband have made Carrie unsure of her sexuality. All this changes when she discovers the steamy world of adult internet chat rooms. Assuming the name Dominique, she soon begins a number of X-rated, on-line liasons. 
Her attempts to juggle reality with her virtual life are complicated, however, by the advances of Max - a great bear of a man who won't take no for an answer - and by Sam, a young internet addict with a tempting line in lustful submission. And when she employs a sulky male house-slave with blond ringlets and a taut young bottom, Carrie is suddenly having more fun than ever before. Is it submission or strength that she truly desires in her partners, or can she blend all the admirable qualities of Dominique into her own personality?

Sin.Net

Jennifer Jane Pope

When Detective Sergeant Alex Gregory has a nasty parachuting accident, it should be the end of the line for her. But when she wakes up in a new body she realises she's been given a new lease of life. Unfortunately her captors have very unusual tastes, including one for human pony racing. Alex's home is now a Spartan stable, her only clothing an elaborate harness, with a bit that ensures her silence. Will her colleagues ever be able to rescue her?

Slave Exodus

Anna Rici

Lara McIntyre has lusted after artist Jake Fitzgerald for almost two decades. As a warm, dazzling summer unfolds, she makes a journey back to the student house where they first met, determined to satisfy her physical craving somehow. There she finds her true sexual self. Playing with costume, cosmetics, blatant exhibitionism and the inspiration of a younger lover, the hot frenzied season builds to a peak - but not without complications.

Summer Fever

Jasmine Stone

Katie is a viola player running from her cheating husband and humdrum life. The tour of Symphony Xervertes not only takes her to Europe but also to the realm of deep sexual satisfaction. She is joined by a dominatrix diva and a bass singer whose voice is so low he's known as the Human Vibrator. And while Katie is carefully recording each new sexual encounter in her journal, another member of the tour is writing down his. Intrigue begins when these two books are inadvertently switched. 
 
From sex clubs to monastaries, from one violinist to an entire wind section, watch Katie enjoy herself in ways she never thought possible. How will she be able to maintain her wild life and allow herself to fall in love again?

Symphony X

Various

Pleasure. Pain. Decadent indulgence and darkly bizarre eroticism. 
 
It's all there, in a a sizzling collection of extracts taken from the best-liked Black Lace books. The accent is on strong female characters who have a sense of sexual adventure and a liking for adult fun. These girls kick ass! 
 
With the accent on contemporary settings and women who know what they want - in bed and in the workplace - The Best of Black Lace is a celebration of this most popular series of women's erotic fiction.

The Best Of Black Lace

Wendy Harris

Pam and Janice, bitter rivals since schooldays, now work alongside each other for the same employer. Pam's having an affair with the boss, but doesn't stop Janice from flirting outrageously with him. There are plenty of hot and horny men around to fight over, however, including bad-boy Flynn who is after Pam! Whatever each of them has, the other wants, and things come to a head in an uproar of cat-fighting and sexual bravado.

The Bitch And The Bastard

An erotic historical set in ancient Egypt. 
 
Marked from birth with the symbol of Amun, the young, Naunkhte must enter a life of dark eroticism as a servant at his temple. She becomes the favourite of the high priestess but, when she's accused of an act of sacrilege, she is forced to flee to the city of Waset. There she meets Khonsu, a prince of the Egyptian underworld, whose prowess as a lover is legendary. But fate draws her back to the temple and she is forced to choose between two lovers - one mortal and the other a god!

The Hand of Amun

Crystalle Valentino

Venetia Halliday is a go-getting entrepreneur who's trying to make it in London's fiercely competitive restaurant business. Her new chef - East End wide-boy Micky Quinn - is tricking his way into her business and her bed. He's cheeky, well-built, horny and confident - and Venetia's polished and calm appearance is being ruffled by his rogueish charm. 
 
Venetia is determined that her Camden Town restaurant will take the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award. But with barriers broken down in every area of her personal life and wild sexual abandon on the menu, can she keep her mind on the job on hand, or will her 'bit of rough' snatch the glory from under her nose? 
 
Black Lace erotic fiction - the best adult stories and erotic books for women

The Naked Flame

Brigitte Markham

After an unsuccessful attempt at seduction by her friend Laura, Mary escapes to the French chateau where her flatmate, Philippe, is spending a holiday. The count at the chateau has some curious ways of entertaining his guests, however, and the naïve Mary and Philippe are soon initiated into new and perverse ways of loving. 
 
Laura, worried about Mary, follows her to France and joins in the bizarre games at the chateau. But what they don't realise is that the count harbours a terrible secret, which puts all their lives in danger.

The Pleasure Chamber

Five Minute Mum

Flaptastic

Fluffy

Folk Art

Football Academy

Football Skills

Forbidden Spaces Trilogy

Foul Play

DICK FRANCIS was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys and author of forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), the biography of Lester Piggott and his own autobiography (The Sport of Queens). He was rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world. 
 
 Since his death, his son FELIX FRANCIS has taken over the literary reigns from his father and Dick's legacy lives on through the Dick Francis novels. The Francis flair is clear for all to see in these national treasure thrillers, and readers will appreciate the sporadic reappearance of beloved series characters Sid Halley and Jeff Hinkley.

Francis Thriller

Frank Behr

Once a Detective Inspector in the Nottinghamshire Force, Frank Elder has retired to an isolated cottage in Cornwall, and is trying to live the quiet life. The past, however, is never far behind him.

Frank Elder

Fred

Free Collars Kingdom

Jean Plaidy combines imagination with facts to bring the French Revolution alive in this dynamic historical fiction series. From Louis XV’s debauchery to Marie Antionette’s demise, it is clear there was only one way this was going to end.

French Revolution

French Vintage Classics

Frieda Klein

Fright Club

From Scratch

Frontline Nurses Series

Frostheart

Fun With Ladybird

Funnybones

G.F. Newman’s The Corrupted

Gabriel's Inferno

The Roman grip on Britain is growing weaker and Druids are on the rise. Emperor Nero has turned away. Boudicca is preparing to lead tribes to war. 
 
Standing in her way is Gaius Valerius Verrens, commander of the veterans legion. In this battle he earns the accolade of Hero of Rome - but where will that title lead him next?

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