Adam Usden

Adam Wagner

Adam Wasson

Adam Weymouth's work has been published widely, including in Granta, The Atlantic, The Observer and the BBC. His first book, Kings of the Yukon, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year and the Prix Paul-Emile Victor. He has been named by the National Writing Centre as one of ten writers shaping the UK's future.

Adam Weymouth

Adam Wisniewski-Snerg (1937-95) was born on the outskirts of Warsaw. His science fiction writing is largely focused around the consequences of totalitarianism. Although largely unread during his lifetime, after his suicide in 1995 his work began to receive major critical attention. He is now considered to be, along with Stanislaw Lem, one of Poland's greatest science fiction writers.

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Ade Edmondson

Adele Lang

Adele Nozedar is an author and photographer. Previously, she was in a cult indie band, then ran her own indie record label and became A&amp;R Director/General Manager of a major record company. 
 
Her wide-ranging passions are reflected in her books, which include The Hedgerow Handbook (2012), The Signs and Symbols Sourcebook (2011), The Secret Language of Birds (2006), and The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans (2013).

Adele Nozedar

Adele Puhn

Adeline Yen Mah

Adelle Waldman is a freelance writer and book critic. She worked as a reporter at the New Haven Register and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal's website. Her articles also have appeared in The New York Times Book Review,The New Republic,Slate,The Wall Street Journal, and other national publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Adelle Waldman

Aditi Kakade Beaufrand is an Indian illustrator based in France. She likes experimenting with bright, happy colours. She grew up reading fairytales, watching animated films and imagining adventure stories, and her style is an embodiment of her Indian heritage and western culture. She loves animals and taking long walks on the beach, but she is never too far away from a pencil and a paper to draw her perception of the world.

Aditi Kakade Beaufrand

Aditya Chakrabortty

Adiva Geffen is a bestselling writer and playwright. Her plays have appeared on major stages in Israel, she lectures and leads numerous writing workshops and she is a board member of the Israeli Writers’ Association. 
 
 Geffen started out as a special-education teacher, before serving as the spokesperson for the Habima National Theatre for more than a decade. She founded and subsequently led the Israeli Theatre Award for ten years, and now serves as head of The Gnazim Institute of the Hebrew Writers Association, the largest Hebrew literature archive in the world. 
 
 Born in Haifa, Israel and the mother of three sons, Geffen now lives in Tel Aviv with her partner Aharon Meidan.

Adiva Geffen

Adnan Sarwar, 35, is a former British soldier who served in the Iraq War.  He has since worked as a military consultant to film and is a writer based in London.  Read more at www.adnansarwar.com / @adnansarwar

Adnan Sarwar

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Loos (1877-1933) was a leading Austro-Hungarian architect, perhaps most famous for the revolutionary 'Loos House' opposite the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, which caused outrage when it was built in 1912, and the wonderful American Bar, also in Vienna. He wrote extensively on architecture and design, working in reaction to the elaborate mass of decoration celebrated by the Vienna Secession movement.

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Adomnan of Iona

Adonis

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Adrian Bean

Adrian Bliss is a creator, writer and performer from London, best known for his comedy sketches which, explore everything from history to natural science to religion. Adrian's work has earned him nearly 20 million followers across social media and has been featured in CNN, The Times and Vogue. Adrian was named one of the New Faces of Comedy at Just For Laughs, and his one-man play Inside Everyone sold out its debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival prior to opening.

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Penny Birch

Natasha Linnet has a weakness for dirty old men - hence her relationship with wine buff and accomplished spanker Percy Ottershaw. When Percy visits a former colleague, the louche Dr Blondeau, in France, Natasha tags along. Blondeau, figuring correctly that any girlfriend of his perverted old friend must be a willing submissive, has extreme ideas of his own, for which he considers Natasha fair game. 
 
Natasha sees right through his wiles, of course. But how can she give in, and still have the last laugh? 
 
The latest book in Penny Birch's series of bestselling erotica takes the mischievious Natasha on a humiliating, exhilatating, wet-knickered thrill ride through rural France. Other titles featuring Natasha are: Brat, Dirty Laundry, Peach, When she was Bad, In Disgrace, What Happens to Bad Girls? and Bare, White &amp; Rosy.

Temper Tantrums

Isabelle is a Sapphic young student at Oxford, versed in the arts of Flagellation. When her ageing scout, Stan Tierney, lets slip that he knows about a long-established society of lesbian dominas, Isabelle is drawn in. As Isabelle investigates together with her girlfriends Jasmine and Caroline, it becomes clear that she will have to endure a comprehensive round of sexual humiliation if she is to get close to the mysterious society. 
 
Follow Isabelle's adventures in The Indulgence of Isabelle, The Indecencies of Isabelle, The Indiscretions of Isabelle and The Indignities of Isabelle.

The Indiscretions of Isabelle

Scott

Richard is an English visitor in Hamburg, at a loose end until he meets Helena, the beautiful niece of Margaret Wagner. Together they lead him down the road to bondage, slavery and transvestism. It's all so easy, so pleasurable - until he discovers Margaret's darker side, and the strength of her hold over Helena. 
 
His plans to rescue Helena are thwarted when Margaret gives him to another of her business acquaintances for further training. This time he'll learn the real meaning of submission and obedience.

House Rules

G C Scott

Harriet is a very special kind of agony aunt, helping clients to live out their bizarre fantasies of bondage and domination. When her servant Tom finds her tied up one day he decides to reverse roles, leaving her confused about her true desires. Harriet's friends are keen to see her satisfy her passion for servility with Tom, but she is now wary of him. Will they ever enjoy the delights of discipline together again?

Agony Aunt

Under normal circumstances, no woman as stunning Barbara Hilson would have trouble finding a man. But Barbara's requirements are far from normal. She needs someone who will take complete control; someone who will impose himself so strongly upon her that her will dissolves into his. 
 
Fortunately, if she can't find a man to give her what she wants, Barbara has other options: an extensive collection of bondage equipment, an imagination that knows no bounds, and, in Sarah, an obliging and very debauched friend.

A Matter Of Possession

Nineteen-year old Isabelle, a refined young woman has fetishistic tastes and a deep sexual yearning which she's yet to fulfil. The pleasures of domination and the female form are obvious to her, but now, in her first term at university, she's to discover that there are many more excitements of the flesh. 
 
As she journeys down the pathways of willing sexual degradation, Isabelle's sexual education is about to begin. 
 
Follow Isabelle's adventures in The Indulgence of Isabelle, The Indecencies of Isabelle, The Indiscretions of Isabelle and The Indignities of Isabelle.

The Indignities Of Isabelle

Tesni Morgan

An amoral and unprincipled - but charismatic and good-looking - young man calling himself Jack turns up to a Halloween party dressed as the Devil. The lady of the house is Kim Buckley, a beautiful but shy young woman who is vulnerable to the flattery of others, despite being married to a wealthy business consultant. Jack calmly announces he's the illegitimate and unacknowledged son of Kim's recently deceased father. She had no idea he existed. 
 
Feigning a brotherly interested in Kim, he is actually out to seek revenge on her for being the pampered only daughter of their rakish father. Things are complicated by the fact they have a mutual powerful sexual interest in each other and, although Kim is filled with shame and guilt at this unnatural obsession, she finds herself being drawn into his gameplan for success.

The Ties That Bind

Esme Ombreux

When the sensations finally ceased Tess heard La Patronne saying, 'You see, my dear? Jem is never wrong. Tess will flourish in my little house.' 
 
'I have to agree,' the Chatelaine said, 'She is yours. For the time being, I assume I may punish her again before you take her away from Paris? You know how I like to put these statuesque blondes through their paces.' 
 
'Of course my dear. You may deal with her as severely as you wish. But do remember that for Tess the real punishment is being made aware of how much she deserves to be punished. In my House she'll learn the true meaning of shame.' 
 
Drawn from her sheltered life when her housekeeper Tess goes missing, Amanda goes to France in an attempt to find her. During her search Amanda meets Michael, an artist with bizarre sexual tastes who awakens in her a taste for the shameful delights of discipline and introduces her to a secret society of hedonistic perverts who share her unusual desires. 
 
Amanda revels in her new-found sexual freedom, voluntarily submitting to extreme indignities of punishment and humiliation, but does not realise until too late the full extent of the society’s depraved and perverted plans. Can Tess and Michael save her from the ultimate degradation the society has in store?

Amanda In The Private House

Expelled from school for spanking a head mistress, Amber Oakley finds herself in disgrace and is sent to work on a farm. Introduced to the strange delights of the world of pony-girls, Amber soon decides that she wants to be a pony-girl mistress. Unfortunately, others would like to see her at the other end of the reins, and when she loses a bet she's been groaded into by Morris Rathwell, a property developer who sees himself as the king of carting, she finds herself in a very difference role from the one she'd anticipated. Worse still, she finds the role more enjoyable that she ever would have imagined. Can she ever hope to fulfill her ambition?

A Taste of Amber

When Lorna Erskine inherits Hinton Priory - deep in the heart of rural England - she thinks she is set for a life of tranquillity and pastoral bliss. She's wrong. Her closest neighbour, Ryder Tyrell, is not the country gentleman he seems to be and is trying to lure Lorna into his elite cult of sexual excess. 
 
A ruthless businessman also has Lorna in his sights, and wants to build an exclusive leisure centre on her land. He sets out to seduce her - as does the darkly handsome architect who has been hired to restore the Priory; he has his own private reasons for wanting to possess her: body, mind and soul. The village is seething with intrigue, which can only escalate when Lorna discovers that paganism is thriving on her doorstep. Can she hold on to the Priory and her sanity?

Country Matters

Rosemary Maddox is TV's most popular gardening presenter. Her career and business are going brilliantly but her sex life is unpredictable. Someone is making dirty phonecalls and sending her strange objects in the post, including a doll that resembles her dressed in kinky clothes. 
 
And when she's sent on an assignment to a bizarre country house, things get even stranger. The owner of the house is a peculiarly eccentric and masterful character, and plans to add Rosemary to his collection of beautiful things.

Earthy Delights

Kerri Sharp

Black Lace has been the publishing sensation of the decade. This is the first imprint to recognise women's erotic writing as a genre and it has given women the opportunity to write their fantasies, using their language. Black Lace books have explored areas of sexual fantasy where other women's fiction has feared to tread. 
 
This is the first anthology of extracts from Black Lace with an exclusively contemporary theme. Seduction and mystery and darkly sensual behaviour are the key words to this unique collection of sensual writings from the female imagination. Worlds of secluded passion collide with unbridled erotic exploration, and scintillating characters delight in the thrill of total surrender to pleasure and decadent indulgence.

Modern Love-Anthol Erotic Writing

Robyn Russell

A stylishly sensual, erotic thriller set in the languid heat of an Italian summer. 
 
Attractive but stern Boston academic, Donatella di'Bianchi, is in Italy to investigate the affairs of the Collegio Toscana, a school of visual arts. But her efforts are hampered by one man, the director, Steward Temple-Clarke. She is also sexually attracted to an English artist on the faculty, the alluring but mysterious Ian Ramsey. 
 
In the course of her inquiry, Donatella's life is thrown into danger, but she receives help from Kiki Lee and Francesca Antinori. As the trio investigates the menacing mysteries surrounding the college, Donatella's new friends open her eyes to a world of sexual adventure with artists, students, and even the local police...

Full Exposure

Portia Da Costa

An erotic paranormal romance... 
 
At an archduke's reception, a handsome young nobleman falls under the spell of a malevolent but irresistible sorceress. Two hundred years later, Belinda Seward also falls prey to sensual forces she can neither understand nor control. Stranded by a thunderstorm at a remote Gothic priory, Belinda and her boyfriend are drawn into an enclosed world of luxurious decadence and sexual alchemy. Their host is the courteous but melancholic André von Kastel; a beautiful aristocrat who mourns his lost love. He has plans for Belinda - plans which will take her into the realms of obsessive love and the erotic paranormal.

Gothic Blue

Anna Lieff Saxby

An erotic 18th Century-set romp. 
 
The year is 1720 and Lady Celine Fortescue is summoned by her father, Sir James, to join him on St Cecilia, the turbulent tropical island which he governs. But the girl who steps off the boat into the languid, intoxicating heat isn't the same girl who was content to stay at needle work in a dull Surrey mansion. 
 
On a moonlit light, perfumed with the scent of night blooming flowers, Celine liaises with Liam O'Brian, one of the ship's officers to whom she became secretly betrothed on the long sea voyage. Their plans are thwarted , however, by her father and at the hands of Lord Odo Wraxall, a debauched rake with a penchant for nubile girls. Celine is thrown into confusion by Wraxall, whose arrogance and cruelty betray his preference for darker pleasures. 
 
Exotic and opulent, this story of indulgent luxury is stimulation for the senses and not without a wicked streak of humour.

Lord Wraxall's Fancy

Esme Ombriuex

When Olena, nubile and much-appreciated guest at the secretive flagellant community that is the Private House, is kidnapped, Supreme Mistress Jem Darke and her lover Julia, chief of the guards, are unusually at a loss as to what to do. But Talia, the fey, submissive but resourceful leader of the forest people, who live a bucolic but perverted life on the House's large estate, has evidence that leads to Madame la Patronne, Jem's rival in the arts of dominance. Jem, Julia, Talia and her lover Anne agree a plan of pursuit. Their actions lead Talia straight into deep sexual waters: how far will she be required to submit to Madame la Patronne, whose imperious sexuality knows no limits? And even if Talia's tormented odyssey brings her to Olena, will either even want to return?

Playthings Of The Private House

Yolanda Celbridge

Tamara Rhydden thrills to her own exhibitionism and teasing. Appointed as governess of Swinburne's, a bizarre academy where maids come to study 'etiquette', Tamara is compelled to exercise her practised caning arm. But with the governess's new-found taste for being governed, how will she ensure her real needs are taken care off?

Girl Governess

Daphne Adams

Anna has a blast making the rounds of North London dyke pubs with her best friend Joan, but it's no cure for the rut she's fallen into with her girlfriend, Vicky. Still, life gets more exciting when she meets the enigmatic Marlene: a tall dark German who wears silk suits and smokes exotic cigarettes. She's a Dietrich-dream-come-true, even though she's the opposite of Anna's usual type. 
 
But, as Anna gingerly extracts herself from her five-year relationship with Vicky, she's not even sure if she knows what her type is anymore. And when Anna finds out that Marlene moonlights as a lesbian dominatrix, the situation can only become more intriguing. 
 
A funny, bittersweet and very sexy tale about what really happens when opposites attract.

I Married Madam

Suzanne Blaylock

Drawn together by an accident of time and circumstance, a disparate group of women all hide behind masks of cool deception, but when their paths cross, the ice soon melts in a furnace of passion. This erotic novel explores the myth of the female icon and the truth is not often what it seems.

Ice Queen

There's a hidden world deep in the heart of southern Spain where the bizarre rituals of the Inquisition have survived to this day. A strange, some would say perverse, society of women has formed the House of Maldona. Like the Knights Templar of old, their lives are governed by a strict set of rules and a hierarchy based on discipline. 
 
When Jane, an adventurous young Chelsea girl, travels to Spain to look for her friends, she finds instead the welcoming arms of Maldona's lesbian elite. Becoming involved in their strange games and ceremonies, she is to discover shocking things about her self and her ancestors.

The House of Maldona

Hilary James

This fourth volume of Emma's story finds its very pretty heroine back in the thrall of the sadistic Ursula, who is now supplying well-trained young women as slaves and pleasure creatures to wealthy overseas clients. 
Having been trained by Sabhu - Ursula's Haitian assistant and slave-trainer - Emma is hired out to the cruel wife of an African dictiator who uses her in the most degrading ways. 
Emma soon discovers that the woman has acquired a painting which has been stolen from Ursula. Ursula wants it back at any cost and if Emma fails in her mission to retieve it, she may never see her beloved mistress again

Emma's Submission

Sensing a powerful, animal drive within Tom that echoes her own, Beth decides to make Tom's initiation into bondage a swift one. His hesitant first steps soon quicken as he is drawn further into her dark and intimate web. Just when their relationship seems to have reached its peak, Beth introduces him to Harriet - and the games suddenly become even kinkier and more convoluted...

His Mistress's Voice

Dominic Arrow

Jonathan Carey works with young unemployed men at St Mark's - a drop-in centre in a run -down area of North London. It's a part of the city where the only grown industries are outside the law - and the men he cares for are often left to choose between lives of idleness or violence. Until they begin to explore a third alternative, finding pleasures in each other that they never imagined. 
 
Stewart is one such man, dividing his time between the increasingly sensual games at St Mark's and a mysterious gang in which sex plays as important a role as crime. As Jonathan too is sucked into the erotic interplay between the young men in his charge, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the aloof Stewart. But can Jonathan save him from the dark allure of the criminal underworld?

Rough With The Smooth

Arabella Knight

Under the stern tutelage of Madame Seraphim Savage, Susie is training to be a corsetiere. A keen student of fashion, Susie soon discovers that at the Rookery - Madame's private establishment - discipline, correction and other special services are always in vogue. Madame's clients, it seems, appreciate the stripe of a cane as much as they do the cut of a tight-fitting basque. 
 
Intrigue abounds, as do jealous rivalries, but Susie's appetite for the pleasures of punishment seems boundless. And that's just as well, as Madame's cardinal rule - that the customer always comes first - is strictly enforced.

Susie in Servitude

Sarah Veitch

When Leanne Dell inherits a former boardinig school, now an advertising agency, part of the deal is that she has to share it with an unknown partner. Arriving at the grand house, she finds herself a voyeur to a scene of bizarre chastisement. Her co-partner, Adam Howard, is administering a sound spanking to his pretty young assistant. In the weeks that follow, Leanne learns some lessons of her own; that her handsome new partner in business is a devotee of corporal punishment, and that arousal and shame are two sides of the same coin.

Lingering Lessons

Sarah Fisher

The chauffeur stood still for a moment, then moved his broad hand up towards the button on his tight uniform jacket. His voice was low and hypnotic. 
 
'I can give you anything you want, Francesca,' he whispered. 'And I think I know what you want.' 
 
Behind an overgrown garden by the sea, a mysterious crumbling mansion harbours a tantalising secret. This fortress of grandeur is home to fading society beauty Alicia Moffat, her inscrutable chauffeur and a remarkable collection of priceless erotica. 
 
Francesca Leeman - a young writer - is commissioned to catalogue this very private collection. She finds her new acquaintances cultured, enigmatic - and a very perverse. In an atmosphere of perpetual stimulation, Francesca finds a strange security in their games of voyeurism and pleasure.

A Private Collection

Penny Birch is a very naughty girl, and this collection of stories shows just how far she'll go to prove it. 
It begins with her sexual awakening and goes on to cover the most erotic episodes of her life as her love of sexual submission develops and becomes increasingly complex. 
Always enthusiastic, she delights in the strange and imaginative, often finding herself tied up or having her bottom spanked. As these accounts of her perverse pleasures unfold, you'll come to realise just how bad she really is.

Bad Penny

Jay Russell

Hard-boiled, hard-bodied black British private eye Alton Davies can't believe his eyes or his luck when he finds muscular African-American gangsta rapper Banji-B lounging in his office early one morning. Alton's disbelief - and his excitement - mount as Banji-B asks him to track down a stolen videotape of a post-gig orgy in which his homeboy, the notorious laydeez man Karamel, plays a starring and revealingly man-pleasing role. 
 
Alton has just twelve hours to catch up with the thief: exotic dancer Champain Blue. And while the rappers cruise the London streets in their twenty-foot Caddy, hungry for sex and distraction, Champain keeps one well-lubricated move ahead of an increasingly stretched and desperate Alton. The tension is mounting as time - and Karamel's reputation - ticks away.

Booty Boys

Lisette Ashton

I'm giving you a last chance to take the east options,' Frankie explained.' This is your last chance to escape before I start to use my special toys on you.' 
 
Number three shivered but remained silent. 'I'll cane you,' Frankie continued. 'I'll beat you. I'll humiliate you so badly that your shame will sting worse that the welts I leave on your backside.' 
 
Set on its own island, far away prying eyes, the castle is a haven for the perverse. Three slave owners, each with a reputation for dominating the indomitable, are gambling to attain ownership of the castle. Testing their skills to the limit, each tries to prove their mastery and show themselves worthy of this ultimate prize. The dance of submission is the ultimate proof of tat mastery and they each strive to beat others in a race to teach their slaves the steps.

Dance Of Submission

Jack Gordon

When Robert McLeod and his flatmate Angelo travel to a remote Scottish island, they anticipate a relaxing holiday in Robert's newly inherited cottage. Kelpie Island has a strange, rocky beauty, the natives are friendly, and welcome the blond Englishman and the coffee-skinned Argentinian with open arms. 
 
But all is not what it seems. Robert's secret feelings for the handsome Angelo continue to grow, whilst Kelpie Island and its inhabitants are keepers of a more ancient secret, their hospitality hiding a deeper motive. 
 
As Angelo becomes increasingly beguiled by the domineering rulers of the island - and Robert wrestles with pangs of jealousy while assuaging his desires with its willing inhabitants - it becomes apparent that there is more to the island's traditions than either man could ever imagine.

Dark Rider

Described by his creator as 'short, fat and primitive', Evert Bäckström is a rather unique homicide detective but he is undeniably the real deal with it comes to modern policing. 
 
This series is blackly comic, thrillingly compelling and utterly real.

Bäckström

CAMP GOLD

Caedmon Aisquith

Cairo Trilogy

Can You Solve the Murder?

Capital

Care Bears

Cartoon Kid

Cath Kidston

A crime-fiction series with a twist - private investigator Catherine Berlin, is a damaged soul struggling with a heroin addiction, but she still manages to do her best, even when her own neck is on the chopping block.

Catherine Berlin

Celeste Express

Central Intelligence

Chaos and Flame

Charles Hayden

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Charlie Bass

Charlie Changes Into a Chicken

Charlie and Lola

Cherry Blossoms After Winter

Chevalier

Chinese Cinderella

Life at Tanglewood isn't all sleepovers, picnics and beach parties. Cherry, Summer, Skye, Coco and Honey all face some tough life challenges in this delicious series from bestselling girls' favourite Cathy Cassidy. Every sister has a secret to share. Which one will be your favourite?

Chocolate Box Girls

Christmas

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Churchminister

Welcome inside the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, and learn how one man - clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable - fought to reach the top.

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