Adam Henson is perhaps the best-known farmer in the UK, presenting on BBC's Countryfile to millions of viewers each Sunday evening. He's also appeared on Lambing Live, Secret Britain, Coast and Inside Out. Adam also runs the award-winning Cotswold Farm Park in Gloucestershire, which welcomes family visitors all year round and is home to many rare breeds. He has a monthly column in Countryfile magazine, as well as the Cotswold Life magazine. He has written several books including the Sunday Times bestseller Like Farmer, Like Son. This is his first children's book and it is the perfect introduction to the farm.

Adam Henson

Adam Henson presents Countryfile, often from his 650-hectare farm in the Cotswolds. Having studied Agriculture at college, Adam took over Bemborough Farm from his father, Joe. The farm now grows wheat, spring barley and oilseed rape, runs a flock of 400 commercial ewes and has the UK's leading collection of rare breeds, many of which are in demand for film sets and advertisements. Cotswold Farm Park (www.cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk) offers a total countryside experience for all the family, welcoming more than 100,000 visitors each year. 
 
Adam presented Lambing Live with Kate Humble, writes for Countryfile magazine and has appeared on Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today. He is the author of three previous books, Adam’s Farm: My Life on the Land, the Sunday Times bestseller, Like Farmer, Like Son and A Farmer and His Dog.

Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Businessweek, Smithsonian, Men’s Journal, and The Atavist. He began his career in magazines and newspapers in London, where he was the editor-­in-chief of The Face and a contributing editor at The Sunday Telegraph. The author of Midnight in Chernobyl, he lives in New York City.

Adam Higginbotham

Adam Hills is an internationally recognised comedian and host of award-winning Channel 4 show The Last Leg. His collection of stories from a life in comedy, Best Foot Forward, was a Times bestseller.

Adam Hills

Adam Howling

Adam J. Kurtz

Adam Jacot de Boinod

ADAM JOHNSON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for his second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Orphan Master’s Son (‘Excavates the very meaning of life’ New York Times). His short story 'Nirvana' won the prestigious Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award. He is the author of acclaimed story collections, Fortune Smiles and Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives with his family in San Francisco.

Adam Johnson

Adam Kay is a former doctor who has written five million books and sold seven copies. No, hang on – he’s written seven books and sold five million copies. His debut book, This is Going to Hurt, is a literary sensation: a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year, winning a record-breaking four National Book Awards and selling over 3 million copies. Kay adapted This is Going to Hurt as a BAFTA-winning comedy-drama series for the BBC. Adam Kay’s children’s books have been translated into 32 languages and sold over 1 million copies, making him one of the UK’s bestselling children’s authors. Kay’s Anatomy became the fastest-selling children’s general non-fiction hardback of the decade. His first picture book, Amy Gets Eaten, was published in 2023, and his first children’s novel, Dexter Procter the Ten-Year-Old Doctor, was published in September 2024.

Adam Kay

Adam studied illustration and animation, and received a BA followed by an MA from the Edinburgh College of Art. As a student he won a competition to create a short film for MOMI and Channel 4, and once his career producing animated commercials was under way, he became an illustrator as well. He has regular columns in the UK and the US.

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Adam Mars-Jones

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982, where he currently lives. In 2008 he became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (2010) win a Somerset Maugham Award. He is the Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Adam O'Riordan

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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Adam Rackley

Adam Richardson is the UK's top trending health and fitness coach with a rapidly growing audience across both TikTok and Instagram. Adam is passionate about removing barriers to exercise and movement, a philosophy that is key to his work as a Personal Trainer in which he strives to help his clients feel more confident, as well as more fit and healthy.

Adam Richardson

Adam Roberts is the author of The Amateur Gourmet and Secrets of the Best Chefs, and coauthor of Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway. He started his food blog, The Amateur Gourmet, in 2004 and currently writes The Amateur Gourmet Newsletter on Substack. Roberts has also written for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and for film and television. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their dog, Winston. Food Person is his first novel.

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts is acknowledged as the senior scholar of international relations in the UK. He was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University 1986-2007, and President of the British Academy 2009-13 - the head of humanities in Britain. He was on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (2002-08), a member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003-15) and is now on the Board of Advisers of the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

Adam Robinson is based in the Middle East and is a regular contributor to newspapers in the Arab world and also to the British media. He is the author of numerous books on the region, including Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist.

Adam Robinson

Adam Ross

Adam Rutherford is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and geneticist at University College London. His books include A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, and the Sunday Times bestseller How to Argue with a Racist. He has written and presented numerous documentaries for BBC radio and television, including Inside Science and The Cell. Adam has also worked as a science advisor on many films, including the Oscar-winning Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).

Adam Rutherford

Adam Smith

Adam Smyth runs the 39 Step Press, an experiment in printing, from a cold barn in Oxfordshire. He is also Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Adam Smyth

Adam Sweeting

Adam Tandy

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young British Novelists.

Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017), and six poetry collections. 
 
 
www.adamthorpe.net

Adam Thorpe

Adam Tooze is the author of the highly praised Crashed, The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction, all published by Allen Lane. He has been the recipient of the Wolfson Prize for History, the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Tooze has taught at Cambridge and Yale and is now Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University.

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Celia Parker

Katherine is a successful but stressed-out lawyer who has never taken the time to work out what it is she really wants from a sexual relationship. Her boss arranges a well-earned holiday for her and Katherine discovers that the idyllic mystery destination to which she's been sent is in fact a revolutionary sex therapy clinic located on an exotic Caribbean island. 
 
Freed from the inhibitions and reservations that have so far dogged her private life, Katherine is soon enjoying numerous erotic encounters both with the clinic's staff and the other guests. For the first time in her life she is at liberty to indulge in the pleasures all women deserve. However, when it's time to return to the workplace, will Katherine be able to hold on to her new-found sense of sexual empowerment and freedom?

Passion Flowers

Sedalia Johnson

It's 1750. Orphaned Amelia, headstrong and voluptuous, goes to live with wealthy relatives. During the journey she meets the exciting, untrustworthy Marquis of Beechwood. She manages to escape his clutches only to find he is a good friend of her Aunt and Uncle. Although aroused by him, she flees his relentless pursuit, taking up residence in a Covent Garden establishment dedicated to pleasure. When the marquis catches up with her, Amelia is only too happy to demonstrate her new-found disciplinary skills.

Pleasure's Daughter

Deanna Ashford

In the kingdom of Harn, a marriage is arranged between Rianna - a beautiful daughter of the warrior woman Kitara - and Lord Sarin, ruler of the rival kingdom of Percheron. Rianna has inherited her mother's rebellious spirit and begs her father that she be spared from the marriage as Sarin is notorious for his voracious sexual appetite. 
 
Her pleas are ignored and Rianna is taken on the epic journey to Percheron. En route, she meets Tarn, a young nobleman who has been captured by Sarin's brutal guards for attempting a rebellion. Their desire for each other is instant and Rianna is only too keen to submit to Tarn's seductive charms. On arrival in Pecheron, however she finds that Sarin's world is one of orgiastic indulgence and he plans to use both Tarn and Rianna as his pleasure slaves. Can she find a way to save Tarn without causing unrest between the kingdoms?

Savage Surrender

Helena Ravenscroft

It is 1745, and Lydia Hawkesworth feels torn between her love for highwayman Drummond and her passion for his decadent younger brother Valerian. 
 
With the arrival at Hawkesworth Manor of the icy French beauty, Madame de Chaillot, Valerian's plans to steal his brother's inheritance turn down a sinister path - one which Lydia is drawn to follow.

Stand and Deliver

Rafaella

The research for an article on erotic art takes journalist Jessica Martyn to the mansion of Gabriel Martineaux. Gabriel is devastingly handsome and soon Jessica is drawn into a world of sensuality, power games and costumed revelry. However, there is another guest in the house - Jessica's arch-rival.

The House Of Gabriel

Cheryl Mildenhall

Satyria is a land of debauchery and excess: a place where virtuous maidens dare not venture. Just as well, then, that Princess Hedra's intentions are decidedly unchaste. When her father's castle is threatened with invasion, she flees into neighbouring lands and embarks on a quest for sexual adventure. 
 
In her travels she meets Gideon, the virile young man who lives in the enchanted forest, and a troop of decadent knights who seek to ravish every woman they find. But when she is captured by the leather-clad Lord Gerard - King of Satyria - her lascivious talents are really put to the test.

The Lure Of Satyria

Justin Richards

Medusa - an experimental spaceship developed by the Advanced Research Department of St Oscar's University. Missing since it was launched, presumed lost in the wars, it was a project so secret that it has never been declassified. 
 
Now, twenty years on, Medusa is coming home. 
 
After one of the investigation team dies suspiciously, Professor Bernice Summerfield is assigned to help discover what went wrong. But to do so she must solve a riddle. What is the strange link between the original crew and the team now on board the drifting ship? And why do their ghosts still haunt Medusa?

The Medusa Effect

Sarah Hope-Walker

As a financial analyst for a top London bank, Joanne's working life is about being in control, about taking responsibility. But in her private life, her submissive self cries for attention. Every since her bizarre relationship with Christian came to an end, her life has been missing one vital element: the sanctuary that is found in total surrender to a dominant partner. 
 
That is until Joanne meets Nikolai, a cultured and gifted lover who understands her secret desires. It seems that Joanne is about to find complete happiness when Christian walks back into her life. He is still handsome, masterful and irresistible.Choosing between them will involve a test of erotic endurance she's not sure she can stand.

Unfinished Business

Roxanne Carr

It is 1851. Maribel wants to see the Wild West; Dan is the frontiersman into whose care she is entrusted. Her campaign to seduce Dan is interrupted by her dalliance with a US cavalry man, who enjoys her skill with her whip and lariat. Then she is taken captive by a lustful native chief's son.

Western Star

Pamela Kyle

At 28, Suzie Carlton is at the height of her journalistic career, working as a publishing editor. Discovering that her sexual self is essentially submissive, even a little masochistic, she embarks on a relationship which takes her to previously unknown heights of erotic pleasure.

Wicked Work

Alison Tyler

Ever dreamed that you could experience life as a man? Tiffany Mitchell is about to do just that! 
 
When party planner Tiffany Mitchell wakes up in her boyfriend's body, she thinks she's having a bad dream. But no amount of coffee can wake her from the growing nightmare of being trapped in Kurt's 6-foot tall figure, and locked into his disorganised life. 
 
Due to an absent-minded wish made over a magic candle, not only is Tiffany imprisoned inside her boyfriend's body, but Kurt is also struggling inside her own. Only time, a bit of New Orleans voodoo, and a growing mutual understanding can break the erotic spell that traps the two. But before they do Tiffany is determined to have some fun... 
 
A Rouge X title, red-hot erotic romance from Rouge

Tiffany Twisted: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Lucinda Carrington

Doctor Jacey Muldaire knows what she wants from the men in her life: good sex and no strings. And it looks like she's going to get plenty of ti working in an elite private hospital in South America. But Jacey 's not all she pretends to be. Her loyalties lie with British Intelligence, and her femme fatale persona gives her access to places that other spies can't go to. Every day is full of risk and adventure and everyone is playing a dangerous game.

A Dangerous Game

Richard Shaw

When Victoria is called in to investigate the theft of valuable marble statues from a north London cemetery, she soon finds out the lives of the cemetery staff are as tangled as the undergrowth which surrounds them. Vic’s plan is to nail the thieves and stay out of harm’s way, but things don’t work out as she expects. A lot of surveillance work takes place at night-a time when the cemetery becomes dangerous. A maniac is on the loose, but nobody thinks to tell Victoria. Also, one of the management is having perverse liaisons among the gravestones with the security staff, and the rest of the workers are up to no good. 
What begins as a routine job soon turns into a murder inquiry. A body is found which shouldn’t be in the ground yet. Unfortunately, the police are less than co-operative and when one of the grave diggers is charged with murder, Vic is convinced they’ve got the wrong man. To add to this, her current lover is getting friendly with the manipulative Chloe, the cemetery assistant manageress, and her family problems are escalating. How can Vic find time to see that justice is done and wrap up her own investigation?

Angel of Death

Georgia Angelis

It's 1666 and the coffee houses of London are thriving. Neither plague nor fire can quell the lusty hearts of the fops and rakes who frequent these hostelries of ill-repute. Into such a world walks Bella Flowers - a lion-hearted young woman with an eye for handsome highwaymen and a taste for finery. 
 
Her good looks soon catch the attention of royalty, blackguards and a particularly dashing captain of a clipper ship. She journeys to the port of Bristol and sets sail for the Caribbean, but her voyage soon runs into trouble in the form of French pirates whose taste for sensual gluttony knows no civilised bounds. Will Bella be able to escape their rugged clutches? Will she even want to?

Bella's Blade

The exclusive Black Orchid club has provided Maggie with a new world and a new career; a sensuous, clandestine world where giving and receiving pleasure in luxurious surroundings takes top priority. Now her loyalty to the club, and to her skilful lovers Antony and Alexander, is being tested by the presence of Tourrell, a powerful man who makes big promises. He has an offer for Maggie, one which proves too attractive to resist. Captivated by his charm, will she be making the right decisions?

Bouquet Of Black Orchids

Katrina Vincenzi-Thyne

Film producer Gemma de la Mare takes a break in Brittany before starting work on her latest production, entitled "Tales of a Vampire". Whilst there, she begins to feel as if she's being controlled by an elusive and sexually powerful figure, her dream lover, whose identity remains a mystery.

Dream Lover

Maria Del Rey

Sex and discipline form the basis of the alternative lifestyle enjoyed in Eden - a small, hi-tech community deep in the British countryside. When Eden's founders suspect that plans to undermine their control are afoot, they recruit a young couple to spy on its other residents, as they are subjected to a programme of bizarre sexual training.

Eden Unveiled

Sophie Danson

Soraya, a career diplomat at the Foreign Office, is sent on a routine mission to the East European city of Ragzburg, the birthplace of her great-great-grandmother. She hopes to gain information about the mysterious past of her ancestors, but instead she finds passion, and increasingly frightening riddles. 
 
What is the source of the wild urges that overwhelm her at night? Is she bound by a centuries-old tradition of frenzied licentiousness? Will her lover, Anton, be her saviour - or her victim? And what price will she have to pay to lift the curse, the dark power of the full moon?

Moon Of Desire

M Malone

Leather. Fetishes. SM. The words conjure up a multitude of feelings for erotic fiction writer Sally Avery, for Sally has a secret. Despite her explicitly written prose, she is relatively inexperienced when it comes to forbidden pleasures. Frightened by the depth of her yearnings, she starts to explore her darker side with other women. Her journey to self-discovery begins in the sleazy, sexy fetish clubs of Brighton...

No Angel

Saskia Hope

30-year-old Kate walks out of her job, dumps her boyfriend and goes off in search of adventure. And she finds it. Held captive in the Pyrenees by five men who believe they can do what they wish to her - her holiday plans seem to be taking an unpredictable turn. It's a world of outlaws, where the love-making is as rough as the landscape, and where the taste for sex and the need for adventure collide.

No Lady

A spicy erotic historical novel set in the nineteenth century... 
 
Shipwrecked on the remote South Sea island of Wahwu, at first, Iona Stanley longs for the temperateness of England. But as her days are spent luxuriating in the tropical splendour, her natural sensuality blossoms as she is worshipped by a host of virile young islanders keen to serve her every desire. Suddenly, things don't seem so bad after all.

Outlandia

When intrepid female reporter Sydney Johnson is posted to cover an archaeological exploration up the Amazon River, the assignment seems straightforward enough. But the crew's photographer seems to be keeping some very shady company and the handsome botanist is proving to be a distraction with a difference. 
 
On a mission to find a lost Inca city and its priceless treasures, Sydney soon realises the voyage has a hidden agenda. Why is everyone behaving so sexually? Could an altogether more mysterious force be working its magic?

River Of Secrets

Karin's new-found freedom is proving to be a revelation, not least to herself. The enigmatic Nicolai has been interested in her since their chance meeting in a café. But he's the husband of a valued friend. Now he's playing games of sexual tension, and introducing her to intriguing dilemmas which create an erotic puzzle that only Karin can resolve. With other, equally attractive admirers caught up in the web, will she dare to trust her desire?

Summer Of Enlightenment

Kendal Grahame

Grahame Kendal

Classical Greece - the land of heroic legend. A time of adventure and passion: of lecherous gods, valiant men and bewitchingly gorgeous maidens. An era where sexual prowess is at least as important as physical bravery. 
 
This story follows Jason and the captivating Medea after their triumphant quest for the Golden Fleece. If Jason is to take his rightful place on the throne of Iolcus, he must first retrieve a magical cloak with fantastic aphrodisiac powers. Meanwhile, Medea has undertaken to find and bring back the world's most gifted athletes, by any means at her disposal. Kept apart beyond endurance, the lovers must vent their libidinous desires on the men, women and deities that they encounter on their perilous journeys.

The Cloak Of Aphrodite

K Grahame

On the face of it, Katrina Devonside has everything that a young and beautiful girl should want. The daughter of immensely wealthy parents and soon to inherit a fortune of her own, she appears to have the world at her feet. 
 
But there is one thing missing in her life. Although nearly twenty-one, she is still a virgin. Constantly regaled by her college friends concerning their many and lascivious sexual adventures, her frustrations are increasing by the day. Fascinated by their tales of bizarre and extreme encounters, she vows to outdo them all before her birthday.

The Reluctant Virgin

Bridget Doyle

Jane Claremont, a not-so-innocent 19th-century English novice, is just about to be ordained a nun when she begins to experience intense sexual visions - and ones that have the knack of becoming true. This news reaches Lady Elaine, a benefactress of the convent, and she entices Jane away with the promise of a better life. 
 
While Jane is greatly attracted by Elaine's beauty, she starts to feel that there is a more sinister reason for the other woman's interest - and that this reason may also involve local 'wild woman' Hazel Brannagan, who lives independently on the edge of Lady Elaine's estate.

Sheela-Na-Gig

In this anthology of short stories Maria Del Ray once more demonstrates her love of the bizarre and the power of her erotic imagination. Superbly written, original and highly arousing, this collection revels in the forbidden, taking the reader on an intimate journey through the world of dominance and submission. Recalcitrant secretaries, naughty girls, fetishes and submissives come face to face with the bitch mistresses and strict masters of their darkest and deepest desires.

Dark Delights

Stephanie Calvin

Inspired by her grandfather's memoirs, the young and beautiful Amelia decides to begin an erotic adventure of her own. Soon all around her are drawn in to her schemes, acting out her darkest fantasies - from her best friend, Alice, who loves to be commanded, to her shy aunt, Susan, who needs gentle persuasion. All of them will join in her games, before her final, most lewd drama unfolds, in the summerhouse. 
 
Follow the adventures of the bold Amelia, as she and her young friends stretch the boundaries of erotic role-playing. Let them show you how it can be when the most perverse impulses are allowed free rein, with no controls, no conditions, no limits.

Disciples Of Shame

Kit Mason

Clandestine indiscretions are enacted in a Dutch hotel in the 1930s. 
 
This is a collection of short-stories from a fresh and talented new writer. Kit Mason explores settings and periods that haven't previously been covered in Black Lace fiction, and her exquisite attention to detail makes for an unusual and highly arousing collection. Discover a thrilling network of forbidden lusts: from the female Japanese pearl-divers who tangle erotically with tentacle creatures of the deep to an Eastern European puppeteer sexually manipulates everyone around her. 
 
Kit Mason brings a wonderfully imaginative dimension to her writing and this collection of erotic stories will dazzle and delight.

A Multitude of Sins

Penny Birch

Penny Pieces is a collection of Pnny Birch's tales of corporate punishment, public humiliation and perverted pleasures from nettling to knicker-wetting. This time Penny lets her characters do the talking but, whether finding novel uses for a climbing harness, being stuck in a pillory, or sploshing around in the mud, Penny's still the cheekiest of them all.

Penny Pieces

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Blacklist

Set inside Blandings Castle, this comedy series follows Lord Emsworth and his pig Empress as they meet with his dysfunctional family and friends, and the havoc that follows.

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Bluey

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Born Wicked

Boudica: the last defender of the Celtic culture; the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle; the only British warrior to have stood against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumphed. 
 
This is her story.

Boudica

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Brave Bunnies

Bridge

Bridget Jones's Diary

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Brotherband

Arthur Bryant and John May are Golden Age detectives living in the modern world. Together they head up the Peculiar Crimes Unit, ready to solve any of the weird and wonderful crimes that fall across their desks.

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