Aeschylus

Aesop lived in the early sixth century BC on the island of Samos, which lies off the coast of modern Turkey. He originally came from Thrace which was a separate country in those days, though it now forms part of Greece and Bulgaria. Very little is known about his life except that he worked as a slave on Samos for a master called Iadmon, and that he became a very famous storyteller. He was so famous that almost any fable which could have been told by him became attributed to him.

Aesop

Afsaneh Knight

Afsaneh Moqadam

Afua Hirsch is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. She is the author of Brit(ish), the Sunday Times bestseller that explores Britishness, identity and belonging, for which she was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. She co-presented Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson. She is the presenter of the Audible podcast series We Need To Talk About the British Empire, and Africa Rising, an ongoing flagship series about art and culture for the BBC, through her production company Born in Me Productions. She is a longtime columnist for the Guardian and is a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

Afua Hirsch

AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS is an author, blogger and international speaker who inspires audiences around the world. She has spoken at many corporations and conferences, such as Nike Women, Starbucks,Time Inc., Virgin, Johnson &amp; Johnson and the American Heart Foundation. She was born in Athens and trained in London at RADA before gaining a Master’s in psychology at the University of Santa Monica. She has collaborated with her sister, Arianna Huffington, to develop talks and seminars, and has worked with the Oprah Winfrey network. She is currently hosting a new podcast series in collaboration with The Huffington Post, entitled ‘Sundays with Agapi’, which includes guided meditations and interviews with prominent guests. She lives in Los Angeles.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Agatha Christie

Aggie MacKenzie

Aghnia Mardiyah is a London-based Illustrator and Character Designer with a passion for children's books and animation. She is drawn to fun, bright and vibrant colours. When she isn't disappearing under piles of work, she loves to travel! Exploring foreign places, exciting new sights and sensations is what inspires her the most!

Aghnia Mardiyah

Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, Boston Review, and penned a monthly column for the Point. From 2019 to 2020, she held a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the research that contributes to this book.

Agnes Callard

Agnes Jekyll

Agnes Bertha Marshall (24 August 1855-29 July 1905) was an English culinary entrepreneur who became a leading cookery writer, dubbed the 'Queen of Ices'. Her 1888 cookery book included a recipe for 'cornets with cream', possibly the earliest publication of the edible ice cream cone. Marshall was born in Walthamstow. She wrote four books: Ices Plain and Fancy: The Book of Ices (1885), Mrs A B Marshall's Book of Cookery (1888), Mrs A B Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes (1891) and Fancy Ices (1894).

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Agnes Prus

Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan. His work has been published in The White Review, The Rumpus, Litro, 3:AM Magazine, and Asymptote amongst other places. His piece 'Haunted Home' won the 2016 Stack award for best non-fiction for The Outpost, runner-up in the Lifted Brow &amp; RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, and he was longlisted for the 2017/2018 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Hyper is his first novel.

Agri Ismaïl

Aharon Appelfeld authored more than 45 acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction and received many international awards including the MLA Commonwealth Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the prix Médicis étranger, the Israel prize, and the Nelly Sachs prize. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine) in 1932, he survived the Holocaust and passed away in Israel in 2018.

Aharon Appelfeld

Ahmadou Kourouma

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and human rights activist based in London. He is the co-founder and director of We Are Not Numbers and a journalist with Palestine Deep Dive. Ahmed holds a degree in English Literature from Al-Azhar university in Gaza, and an MA in International Journalism from Leeds University, where he was a Chevening Scholar. 
 
Pam Bailey is a social-justice activist and journalist based in Washington DC. She lived and worked in the Gaza Strip following the 2008/9 Israeli assault, and co-founded We Are Not Numbers. Today, in addition to her ongoing dedication to the Palestinian cause, she dedicates herself to two nonprofits that advocate for people detained in American prisons -- including one she co-founded in 2020, called More Than Our Crimes.

Ahmed Alnaouq

Ahmed Errachidi

Ahmed Rashid

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Ahron Bregman is the author of four books about Israel and the Arabs: The Fifty Years War (with Jihan el Tahri), Israel's Wars, A History of Israel and Elusive Peace. He teaches at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

Ahron Bregman

Ai Qing is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets, whose free verse was influential in the development of new poetry in China.

Ai Qing

Ai Weiwei

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

Aidan Chambers

Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. Langrishe Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. His second novel, Balcony of Europe, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 and a collection of shorter fiction, Flotsam and jetsam, in 1996. Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of the Higgins Bestiary which concludes with this volume.

Aidan Higgins

Aidan Mathews

Aidan Potts

Aidan Smith

Aidan Storey

Aidan Trimble is the Chief Instructor to the Federation of Shotokan Karate and a former British, European and World Karate Champion, winning the world title in Tokyo - the home of Karate. Aidan has trained with some of the world's leading teachers of 'traditional' and 'sport' karate and is now an award-winning instructor and teacher who is in demand throughout the world. He can be contacted via www.fsk-karate.com.

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Yolanda Celbridge

Nineteen-year-old Beryl Beaton takes up a place at Trismegist Towers Finishing School.  She is soon mixed up haplessly in a bizarre, longstanding boundary dispute with neighbouring Parvex Hall.  The discipline at Trismegist runs a gamut from traditional corporal punishment to inhumation in mud, and worse.  But Beryl soon finds it as nothing compared to the flagellant excesses of sybarites of Parvex.

The English Vice

Jacqueline Masterson

Fudge and her mistress, Clarissa, belong to the Thames Valley Punishment Club, which puts on a series of kinky events at a refurbished army camp. Fudge is jealous when Clarissa seduces a young scaffolder, revealing his submissive side. 
But at least Fudge does not have to endure the camp for male re-education, where the Oxford Bluestockings, rivals of the TVCP, take measures to change Scott the scaffolder's tabloid-reading ways

The Punishment Camp

Martin Murilee

Southern California, 1990s, Charlene and Ed run a very kinky business providing sexual domination for the jaded tastes of La-La-Land. With Ed behind the scenes and Charlene front of house, they make their clients' juices - and their money flow. Ed thinks of himself as the gentle type but, when Charlene begins to take her on-the-job training a little too seriously, Ed must face how dominant his own tendencies really are.

Torment, Incorporated

Innocent Roger is embroiled in a world of lustful secrets. His voyeuristic host and his wife, their daughter and their maid all conspire to humiliate him by imposing severe corporal punishment. However his virility satisfies the County Ladies and earns their respect becoming the true mark of an English Gentleman.

Training of an English Gentleman

Monica Belle

Valentina is a girl with a plan: find a wealthy man, marry him, mould him, and take her place in the sun. She's got the model-looks, the ambition and, after just one night with her, most men are following her around like puppies. 
 
Chrissy Green is voluptuous and petite - and nowhere near as confident as her friend Valentina, but the handsome, rich and sexy Michael Callington is making no complaints. Thing is, young Mr Callington is everything Valentina wants. How will the two friends resolve their dilemma, especially when they are both booked on the same holiday with Michael and his highly sexed friends, cruising the Norfolk Broads? And then there's Michael's father, the notorious spanking major, who is determined to have his fun as well. Looks like a cat-fight could be on the cards...

Valentina's Rules

Sacked from her job working in one of London's finest kitchens for having sex with a sous-chef, Juliet Eden leaves the rat race behind and heads for the country. Alone in her inherited cottage boredom soon sets in, until she discovers the rural delights of poaching in the home counties, and of the muscular young gamekeeper who works the estate. 
 
When the local landowner halls for her, things are looking better still but threaten to turn sour when her ex-boss, Gabriel, makes an unexpected appearance. 
 
If you enjoy Wild in the Country, check out Juliet's continuing erotic adventures in Wild By Nature.

Wild In The Country

G Edenbridge

Medieval Britain: Frank du Bois, an orphaned young nobleman, abandons his hopeless love for Rob, a young woodcutter, believing they are half-brothers. But, through a mysterious journey that includes his induction into a bizarre phallic cult, the Brothers of the Tree of Life, Frank learns all bout sex magic. He learns, too, the obscure details of his past and concludes that he and Rob may not be related after all. .

Brotherhood

Savannah Smythe

Aspiring artist Carla Vicenzi has caught the eye of Alex Crewe, a serial seducer who owns an exclusive retreat where artists hone their craft. Alex wants a high-profile exhibition, but corporate shark Crewe embodies all the values Carla despises. As she tries to resist his advances, he woos her the old-fashioned way, unaware that she can be even dirtier than him. Eventually they are drawn together by forces neither of them can resist, and their resulting affair is explosive, pushing each of them to their sexual limit. Meanwhile Carla's dishy but dumb boyfriend is lured into depravity by Ruth, Alex's slinky PA. Amid the scheming and double-crossing, Carla still manages to find time to seduce a few of New York's fittest firemen!

Cream Of The Crop

Suzanne Blaylock

Brilliantly talented Polly Sayers has had her first affair with a woman, stolen the code of an important new piece of software and done a runner all the way to a peaceful English coastal community. But things aren't as tranquil as they appear in this quiet haven, as Polly realises when she becomes immersed in an insular group of mysterious but very attractive women. 
 
Boxed in by her own basic instincts and her fear of criminal prosecution, Polly experiences an escalating sense of foreboding that is itself a stimulation. Greedy, terrified and exhilarated as never before, how long can she dance on danger's slim, dark edge?

Getaway

Astrid Fox

Norway, 1066 AD. A group of female Viking warriors - Ingrid's Crew - have set sail to fight the Saxons in Britain, and Ingrid's young lover, Rika, is determined to follow them. But, urged on by dark-haired oarswoman, Pia, Rika penetrates a devious plan masterminded by Ingrid - one which involves a secret cult back home in Norway which is spreading through the whole of Northern Europe. 
 
The cult is strangely compelling, and its female devotees revel in performing erotic rites which re-enact the Nordic creation myth. In the midst of battles, sea journeys, scarification, fire-dancing and tattooing, Rika must make a choice: will she overcome Ingrid's psychic hold, or will she succumb to the intoxicating rituals of the cult?

Rika's Jewel

Tasker Dean

Sam has waited all his life for the man he knows waits for him somewhere. When he visits the island of Skate to do some work for Denton, a mysterious young aristocrat, he is taught how to submit to other men; acting out an elaborate fantasy in which the young men become wrestling slaves as in ancient Rome and Denton their master. 
 
At first, Sam is reluctant, but before long he is submerged in a world where sex and status are interwoven. He must learn how to win and how to lose. If he is to have his beautiful prize - the wrestler Robert - he must learn how the Romans played their games.

Roman Games

Gordon Neale

Market day is a special time on the island of Ilyria. The goods to be sold are men, men who have learnt to accept their lives of slavery. Rock is one of these captive 'livestock', his only hope being that the beautiful young stranger, Dorian, will be the one who buys him. Even if he is lucky, Rock knows his life will not be easy. Dorian's adoptive brother, Carlos, is as cruel as he is handsome and Rock understands that, should he be bought by one, he will be owned by both. 
 
Fine homoerotic fiction with lashings of SM!

To Serve Two Masters

Tesni Morgan

Jody Hamilton is a landscape gardener who has returned from the States to attend her best friend's wedding. All is well until Jody finds out what a sex-crazed rotter her best friend is about to marry. With too many people involved in the preparations for the big day, bickering, back-stabbing and infidelities soon ensue. But in the middle of the mayhem, Jody thinks she may have found the man of her dreams.

Always The Bridegroom

G C Scott

Jan Norris is 42, and has never had an orgasm. This all changes however, the morning her husband leaves for a business trip. Blindfolded and driven to a mystery location, chained and handcuffed, Jan finds herself the newest student of the charismatic Patrick, who can't bear to see a body like hers go to waste. Jan slowly discovers her salacious side as she completes her unconventional and kinky curriculum.

At The End Of Her Tether

Tabitha Flyte

Lauren is on top of the world, literally, travelling in the Himalayas to 'find herself'. But when she runs into her first ever boyfriend, Callum, everything turns rocky. Lauren still loves Callum. Callum still loves Lauren. The problem is he is on honeymoon! 
 
Lauren runs off to a monastery in an attempt to get rid of her earthly desires, but with some surprisingly sexy monks around, Lauren's desires only multiply. Then, while trekking, Callum gets altitude sickness. Lauren could take care of him, but what will happen if his new wife finds out?

Coming Round The Mountain

Karina Moore

Young American art student Kelly Aslett is spending the summer in Paris before flying back to California to claim her property inheritance when she falls in lust and love with gorgeous French painter Luc Duras. 
 
But her stepmother - the scheming and hedonistic Marissa - is determined to claim the luxury house for herself. Still in love with Luc, Kelly is horrified to find herself sexually entranced by the enigmatic figure of Johnny Casigelli, a ruthless but very sexy villain Marissa has enlisted in her scheme to wrestle the inheritance away from Kelly. Will she succumb to his masculine charms, or can she use her feminine wiles to gain what is rightfully hers?

Feminine Wiles

Alaine Hood

Lori is the owner of a New England boutique that specialises in vintage sexy clothing. She spends more time hunting for treasures from the past than enjoying the present. But when she meets Gavin MacLellan, her desires explode into action. Soon, Gavin is introducing Lori to the pleasures she craves but also helping her to confront a family scandal. 
 
Lori's glamorous great aunt Lorelei Price was an erotic photographer who vanished in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Gavin and Lori trace the steps of this enigmatic woman and uncover a dangerous web of seduction and intrigue. As they peel back the layers of mystery, they discover that bondage and domination were prominent in Lorelei's world. Lori's search takes a risky turn when she sets out on her own to relive her great-aunt's adventures. How will the very modern Lori deal with such revelations?

Hard Blue Midnight

Robert Black

Three men are committed to Her Majesty's Prison Cairncrow on the same day. There's Paul - a young, tough inner-city robber. Simon, by contrast, is gentle, feminine, and obviously gay, and the third, John, is an ex-vicar. The prison is a corrupt and cruel institution, run by sadistic officers and bullying hard men. It's also a sexual minefield - the old-timers prey on the newcomers and the guards prey on everybody. Will the three new inmates find their niche in this brutish new environment?

Hard Time

Suzy Whitbread packs in her job at a beauty salon and returns to the rural English village where she grew up. As a teenager the locals frowned on her close relationship with Clifton McKenna, father of her best friend and master of the local hunt. Clifton used to be in control of everything, including Suzy's burgeoning sexuality, but now he is confined to a wheelchair after a riding accident. Suzy is determined to help him recover while his overbearing wife is on an extended vacation, and they are soon playing out scenes of exquisite sexual torment in Clifton's luxury mansion. 
 
As if this were not reason enough for some very hot gossip, the McKenna's son has become embroiled with a girl from the traveller community. It is only a matter of time before a furious Mrs McKenna will return from her holiday to find all hell has broken loose.

Hot Gossip

Blonde Lisbeth Lache, together with her partner Sabrina Bossi, owns a worldwide chain of hedonistic resort hotels. Lisbeth relishes her role as boss, to Sabrina's secret jealousy. At Sabrina's suggestion, Lisbeth goes to investigate the acquisition of Rum Hole, a secluded, ultra-luxurious pleasure-palace in the Bahamas. Champagne and studs await her, but so does a bizarre hierarchy of man and maidservants, spanking, and hunting and fishing with girls as quarry. Will Lisbeth escape her predicament? And will she want to?

Lacing Lisbeth

Anna Clare

Claire Sawyer is a PR queen with the breasts of Venus di Milo and the morals of Attila the Hun. At the sharp end of the celebrity food chain she is amoral yet pragmatic. 
When the opportunity arises to make a star out of James-a scruffy sociology student-Claire and her friend Santosh waste no time in giving the young man the make-over of his life. He soon becomes the beau of the London celeb circuit, fraternising with louche young rock stars and models. What Claire and Santosh don’t bank on is their living boy toy having a strong mind and sexuality of his own.

Make You A Man

Adele Western dreams of a thriving career as a cook, so when she is hired by Paul, an up-and-coming restaurateur, she couldn’t be more pleased. That’s until she meets Jude, the hunky builder who’s working on the renovation of the premises. 
 
While everyone around her seems to be partner swapping, Adele is determined to keep her man. But in the hot and steamy working conditions, it’s easy for the eye to wander…

Mixed Signals

Karen S Smith

When newlyweds Emma and Kit speed away on their matching Ducati motorbikes, Emma knows not to expect a conventional honeymood. From the moment they meet a biker gang and the leader takes a shine to Emma, events take a turn for the bizarre. For the first time in her life she will be pushed to her limits as the gang's idea's for how to have a good time get more and more outrageous. With hard-drinking rock bands, hunky stuntmen, booze-fuelled biker festivals and a whole lot of kinky behaviour on the agenda, Emma's taste for adventure is tested to the max - and Kit's not about to step in and save her from the wild bunch as he's having too much fun himself! 
 
A wild, leather-clad, biker orgy, this high-octane spin across the continent is set to send the blood racing.

Sleazy Rider

Phil Votel

Working-class Manchester: a seedy underworld populated in part by rough, butch security guards and clubowners. Amongst its denizens is Matt, recently discharged from Her Majesty's armed forces and now employed by the security firm Sureforce - a company ruled by an iron-fisted, well-muscled boss. Matt's got no complaints, though. It's good money and there are plenty of perks - including hanging with the beefiest, meanest, hardest lads in town.

Sureforce

Emily Durkheim

Tabitha went off the rails young and never quite made it back. Now she's wasting her twenties in the most enjoyable way possible - spending her lawyer father's money and living the high-life among the glittering young things of L.A. But on her 24th birthday, she discovers that this life is about to come to an abrupt end. Her father's had enough and gives her an ultimatum: grad' college by the time she's 24, or she's disinherited. 
 
Without credit cards, Tabitha finds herself enrolled at Adirondacks U, set in the wild mountains of the States' northern reaches. But Tabby still manages to discover temptation in the shape of Jake, a handsome senior, a rugged logger she meets in the woods and Mark, a professor.

The Miseducation of Tabitha Stone

Penny Birch

Gabrielle Salinger has been sent to track down Sabrina, a voluptuous and dominant young woman who has fallen under the influence of elderly sybarite David Anthony. Gabrielle soon discovers that the couple are already in France, getting up to all sorts of lewd mischief. Accompanied, but not really helped, by her girlfriend Poppy, Monty Hartle and the boys from the Razorback Paintball, Gabrielle is soon beginning to wonder if she's bitten off more that she can chew. By the time she's being hunted through the woods in bunny costume, she's sure that she has.

Naughty Naughty

Aishling Morgan

Beautiful, voluptuous and supposedly innocent, K'Tai is also too headstrong for her own good. Obliged to flee her village in a hurry in order to avoid the application of a switch to her curvaceous bottom, she finds herself in a far worse situation, at the mercy of lascivious slavers, cruel priests and sadistic nuns, each determined to inflict, ever more severe punishments and indignities upon her. 
Part of the Scarlet Gothic series. Other titles include Whipping Girl and Sin's Apprentice.

Scarlet Vice

Alison Tyler

Eleanor Romano, researcher and art historian, is known for being thoughtful and cautious. She rarely takes risks, choosing instead to live vicariously through her best friend Nora's sexual exploits. It's difficult to be spontaneous when you're constantly fact-checking, always questioning yourself, adding in the proper footnotes. 
 
When Eleanor discovers an ancient Greek manuscript in the wreckage of an antique urn, she has no idea what doors it will open...starting with the door to L.A.'s exclusive club, The Pink Fedora, and leading to the office door of the famous, and sexy, British translator, Anthony Rule.

With or Without You

C Devonshire

The only thing Luke and Cassandra have in common is that they both work for the Government - he as a Director of Communications for the New Spectrum Party, she significantly lower down in the ranks. Serious and ambitious, he wants to change the world. She just wants to have fun. 
 
Cassandra, whose fondness for sexy shoes is exceeded only by her fondness for sexy men, is a woman who knows where she's going, and she certainly isn't going after Luke. But as Cassandra learns more about his mysterious past, her fascination with her new boss grow. She falls hopelessly in lust and vows that she will have him. Luke, however, is not hers for the taking, but knowing what she does about his private life, something has to give.

The Power Game

Rebecca Levene

Simon Winstone

Something very odd is happening on the university planet of Dellah, home to Bernice Summerfield, famed archaeologist, adventurer, raconteur and barfly. A long-ignored religion is rapidly gaining recruits. The faithful rejoice and talk of their God walking the land once more. And in secret rooms on campus, arcane arts are practised with dangerously successful results. 
 
Behind these apparent absurdities, something far darker is going on, something that has consequences for everyone.

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