Aiden Aslin is a British-born resident of Ukraine. Living in Mykolaiv with his fiancé, he joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018 and was called to the frontline ahead of the Russian invasion in February 2022. He was one of over a thousand soldiers who surrendered after the month-long siege at the Mariupol steelworks, whereupon he was singled out for his British passport. His surrender, captivity, treatment and subsequent release received global media attention.

Aiden Aslin

Aiko Bethea is the founder of RARE Coaching &amp; Consulting, a leadership development company that helps aspiring leaders successfully navigate the workplace with more impactful approaches to leadership. She has worked with Fortune 100 companies, research &amp; academic institutes, and global non-profit organisations. Bethea is also Senior Leadership Consultant for the Brené Brown Education &amp; Research Group and was named by Forbes as a leading anti-racism educator. Bethea was a contributing writer in the New York Times bestselling anthology You Are Your Best Thing (2021). Anchored, Aligned, Accountable is her first book.

Aiko Bethea

Ailie Busby

Ailsa McFarlane was born in 1997 in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Snowdonia in the United Kingdom. After leaving school, she studied veterinary science before dropping out to travel the United States and Europe by road. Highway Blue is her first novel.

Ailsa McFarlane

Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Aimee Bender

Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) was a Martinican poet and politician who played a leading role in the struggle to liberate the French colonies of Africa and the Caribbean. Renowned for co-founding the Négritude movement, Césaire was a pioneer in surrealist poetry. His achievements as a writer were recognised worldwide with awards including the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the Laporte Prize, the Viareggio-Versilia Prize for Literature, and the Grand Prix National de Poésie; in 2002, he was made Commander of the Order of Merit of Cote d'Ivoire. His works include the plays A Tempest (1969) and A Season in the Congo (1966), the searing political essay Discourse on Colonialism (1956), and the long poem Return to My Native Land (1950), dubbed "nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time" (Andre Breton).

Aimé Césaire

Aingeala Flannery

Aingelda Ardizzone

Ainsley Harriott is nothing short of a cookery legend; a pioneer in quick and easy home cooking, he has hosted some of the UK's most popular culinary series. His love of food and people, together with his natural curiosity and accessible recipes, make him a much-loved British TV personality. Recent popular ITV shows include Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen, Ainsley Mediterranean Cookbook, Ainsley's Food We Love and now Ainsley's Good Mood Food.

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Air Fryer UK

Aishling Morgan

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Aisling Fitzsimons

Aislinn Hunter is the author of a novel, Stay; a collection of stories, What's Left Us; and two collections of poetry, Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past. The World Before Us is her first book of fiction in twelve years. After travelling to London and Edinburgh over the past few years to study for a PhD, Aislinn Hunter now lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Aislinn Hunter

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Ajahn Sumedho

Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. 
 
 
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series – The Detective (Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) – is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing), the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell. The Shadow (A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.

Ajay Chowdhury

Ajaz Ahmed is the CEO of AKQA, the ideas and innovation company he founded aged 21. AKQA today employs over 1,500 people in 15 offices around the world. In 2014 AKQA won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation. Ajaz co-authored Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital. For essays and thoughts visit http://www.akqa.com/ajaz.

Ajaz Ahmed

Akasha Moon is a professional Tarot reader, medium and vocational healer. Under her other pen name Kala Trobe, she has published Invoke the Goddess and Invoke the Gods with Llewellyn. She's passionate about her subject and believes that, although it can bring about some serious benefits, magic can be a lot of fun.

Akasha Moon

Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015) was a novelist, singer, lyricist and former member of the House of Councillors in Japan. Born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, his memories of living through the Second World War – including the loss of his adoptive father in the 1945 Kobe bombings – served as the inspiration for his most famous short stories. In 1967, he won the Naoki Prize for Grave of the Fireflies and American Hijiki, both based on the Japanese experience of the War. Nosaka also wrote erotic fiction, including The Pornographers (1963), and in later life he continued his career as a newspaper and TV journalist, as well as a politician and chanson singer.

Akiyuki Nosaka

Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche was an experienced meditation master of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was co-founder of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre and supervised many other centres in Europe, Africa and Asia. He formed several humanitarian organisations for the aid of refugees, the distressed and the poor and was advisor to a large number of people, including therapists in the UK and Europe. He died in 2013.

Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Akshi Singh is an associate editor at Parapraxis and deputy editor at Critical Quarterly, and is the editor of a special collection of Critical Quarterly presenting new writing on Marion Milner. She collaborates regularly with the Derek Jarman lab, and writes for the London Review of Books. Singh moved to the UK from India to study for a PhD in psychoanalysis and literature with Jacqueline Rose. She is currently training to be a psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.

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Al Ewing

Al Franken

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Al Murray is a Perrier Award-winning comic, TV personality and, as 'The Pub Landlord', the author of the bestselling The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Think Yourself British. Most recently, he has taken on the leadership of the Free United Kingdom Party (FUKP).

Al Murray

Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world. 
 
He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War. He is well known for co-hosting the hugely popular Second World War history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland. 
 
Arnhem: Black Tuesday is his first history book about a single campaign.

Actor and director Al Pacino is a unique and enduring figure in the world of American stage and film. He grew up in New York City’s South Bronx, attended the School of Performing Art, and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton and the Actors Studio with mentor Lee Strasberg. 
 
 
He has been nominated for the Academy Award nine times, for movies including The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, and The Irishman, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992 for Scent of a Woman. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award nineteen times, and won four, and has been nominated for three Tonys and won two. 
 
 
Pacino has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honor, the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the National Merit of Arts from President Obama, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures.

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Juliet Hastings

Tess Challoner has made it. She is going to play Carmen in a new production of the opera that promises to be as raunchy and explicit as it is intelligent. But Tess needs to learn a lot about passion and desire before the opening night. Tony Varguez, the handsome but jealous Spanish tenor, takes on the task of her education. But when Tess finds herself drawn to a desirable new member of the cast, she knows she's playing with fire. If Tony finds out she's playing fast and loose with his affections, then life could begin to imitate art - with dramatic consequences. 
 
A gripping story of art, love and jealousy from Juliet Hastings - one of the most popular Black Lace authors.

Aria Appassionata

Conceit and Consequence follows Lucy Truscott and her three female cousins through a series of romantic entanglements- some more bizarre than others - with spankings and other assorted humiliations inflicted on the girls by the bossy Lucy on the way. 
Smuggling, swashbuckling and sodomy mix in a plot that's tighter than Mr Darcy's breeches. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga. Other titles include Purity, The Rake and Beastly Behaviour.

Conceit and Consequence

Devon,1939. Recalcitrant RAF officer Alexander Gorringe dreams of a cushy wartime billet. Together with his vindictive and perverted uncle, Reginald Thann, he devises a plan to have just that. Girls in uniform, military discipline and a very bizarre dairy farm feature in the latest story from the author of the Cream series. Titles in this series include Devon Cream and Peaches and Cream.

Cream Tease

Strange things are happening in the sleepy Devon spa town of Tawmouth, where women are having increasingly bizarre dreams. Are they the product of unfulfilled sexual yearnings, or do they herald the return of a fantastical prehistoric deity, as Nich Mordaunt, scholar of erotic pagan ritual, believes? 
 
Seaside smut meets the deeply perverse as peeping Toms, craven submissives and dastardly doms all face elemental forces far beyond their own imaginings. The perfect beach read!

Deep Blue

Julius Culdrose

Julius Culdrose has spent over four decades delighting in every aspect of the female bottom - the different shapes and sizes, the possibilities for presentation, the aesthetics, the uses - and now reveals his explicit experiences and frank thoughts. 
This is not only an epic journey to the extremities of bottom adoration, but will explore, reveal and tantalise the reader with the most highly detailed fetish literature actually written by genuine enthusiasts for genuine enthusiasts.

Derriere

Penny Birch

When submissive minx Penny Birch finds herself chastised by the matronly Marjorie Burgess in front of her colleagues, the situation is so outrageously old fashioned that Penny assumes the older woman is playing an erotic game with her. Doubly humiliated when she is caught gratifying herself over the experience, only to find that Marjorie was entirely serious, Penny comes up with an unusually kinky face - and job - saving solution.

Fit To Be Tied

This classic book in the Penny Birch series features some of bad girl Penny's dirtiest antics ever. After going a whole month without doing anything naughty, she is desperate to be even more filthy, despite her imminent departure to Brittany where she is instructed to set up a university field course. Once there, her academic responsibilities get pushed aside for more deliciously rude indulgences. This time, however, she will encounter a French voyeur called Tom,whose penchant for dirty fun will shock even Penny and her playmates.

Plaything

Someone has been performing the Black Mass in an old, abandoned chapel at Stanton Rocks. The local priest, Tom Pridough, is convinced it was Nick Mordaunt, local high-profile pagan, and his friend, the stunning brunette Juliana. Tired of the churchman's confusion of diabolism with his own nature-worship, Nick too sets out to find out who is responsible, and all three become embroiled in a weird and perverse world of sex-magic beyond their darkest imagination. 
Part of the Nick Mordaunt series: fantastic fetish erotica featuring occultist Nick Mordaunt. Titles in this series include Natural Desire, Strange Design and Cruel Shadow.

Satan's Slut

A shiver passed through her body as she thought of what favours she might offer, and how she could hint at what she desired, yet still feign reluctance and into the most delightfully improper acts. She knew enough to populate her imagination with highly vivid scenes. A man was not strictly necessary, although she wanted one very badly indeed. 
In a foggy Victorian London, gambler Edward Trent manages to lose all his worldly goods and the right to Nell's virginity to the money lender Daniel Quilty. Charles Truscott rescues Nell from her fate but cannot resist taking advantage of both her innocence and her voluptous body, as does just about everybody she meets as she flees London for Plymouth with Quilty in pursuit. 
Part of the Truscott Saga series - historical erotica following the depraved adventures of the Truscott family from the eighteenth century onwards. Other titles in this series include Demonic Congress, The Rake, Purity, Velvet Skin, Conceit and Consequence, Beastly Behaviour and Portrait of a Disciplinarian.

The Old Perversity Shop

Henry Truscott is a dissipated rake even by the standards of the late eighteenth century. When the beautiful Eloise catches his eye, he expects either to be thrashed by her footmen and dumped in a ditch or to take his full pleasure in her magnificent curves. he gets more than he had anticipated, in every way, trading seduction and revenue and finally using her and her maids in an increasingly perverse manner as they are pursued across France by bloodthirsty revolutionaries. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga.

The Rake

Henry Truscott, hero of The Rake and Purity, returns in Velvet Skin to continue his habits of indulgence and dissipation. 
There are ample opportunities in eighteenth-century Devon for an imaginitive aristocrat to pursue his perversions. Even so, Henry manages to find himself in trouble - like being caught pony-carting on his own land by the local vicar, for example. But the fiendish, rapacious Lewis Stukely makes Truscott look like a monk - and Stukely has designs on Suki, Truscott's beguiling new servant-girl. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga.

Velvet Skin

Penny's friend Natasha Linnett is a minx, and when she's bad she's very, very good. When a dominant, wealthy American wine buyer takes an interest in Natasha, she realises she can pretend to secure for him some bottles of real Napoleon-era brandy. She doesn't realise, however, just how many are the bizarre and lewd sex acts in which she must collude to maintain the deception. Will Natasha manage to line her pockets as she wishes, or will she be caught out ignominiously like the bad girl she really is?

When She Was Bad

Penny Birch is currently the filthiest little minx on the Nexus list. 
All are equally full of messy, kinky fun and, frankly, no other erotic writer has ever captured the internal thrills afforded by the perverse shamings and humiliations her characters undergo! 
In Bare Behind, Penny discovers that a friend of her family, also on the fetish scene, may know more about her private passions than is good! In the search for him, she encounters the pop band Madman Klein, and she must submit to the their most perverse desires if she is to find her quarry!

Bare Behind

Truscott faces the prospect of living on his brother's charity. His efforts to make his fortune lead him along a path of debauchery and perversion, from stripping girls in a brothel to indulging three at once in a Belgravia drawing room. Meanwhile, his wife is pursued by the sadistic d'Aignan. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga.

Purity

This novel is populated by strange half-human creatures like Tian-Sha, the tigranthrope, a beautiful blend of girl and tiger. 
 
In this bizarre fantasy world a complex plot of erotic intrigue is played out against a background of arcane ritual and nightmare symmetry.

Tiger, Tiger

Kristina Lloyd

A Gothic tale of suspense and submission, set in the Yorkshire moors 
 
A visit to Heddlestone, a remote village in the Yorkshire moors, changes librarian Kate Carter's life forever. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge and when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum, she leaves London and her boyfriend to take up the post. 
 
Jake, the strange and beautiful curator and puppeteer, draws her into his secluded sensual world, and before long she's sharing his bed and discovering a new and frightening side of love and lust. 
 
But Heddlestone is a village with secrets and Kate is haunted by a surreal holiday memory of a cool handsome man dominating a woman dressed like a crazy ballerina. The man is Eddie, Jake's brother, and when Kate is seduced by him and his reckless Ukrainian wife she becomes involved in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men, Kate moves closer to the truth of Heddlestone, sensing danger but not knowing if the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality.

Split

Mathilde Madden

An epic and fast-paced tale of lycanthropy and female werewolf hunters... 
 
Every full moon, Iris kills werewolves. It's what she's good at. What she's trained for. She's never imagined doing anything else . . . until she falls in love with one. And being a professional werewolf hunter and dating a werewolf poses a serious conflict of interests. To add to her problems, a group of witches decides she is the chosen one - destined to save humanity from the wolves at the door - while her new boss, Blake, who just happens to be her ex-husband, is hell-bent on sabotaging her new reltionship. All Iris wants is to snuggle up with her alpha wolf and be left alone. He might turn into a monster once a month, but in a lot of ways Iris does too.

The Silver Crown

Annabel Lee

When Melinda Carr inherits property from her Great Aunt Laura there are some surprises in store for her. Not only is it in Morocco, it's also luxurious, richly furnished and worth a small fortune. 
 
Her business affairs manager, Khalil, is keen for Melinda to make the most of her property. He's also intent on bringing out her wanton side, and giving her the opportunity to test her voracious sexual appetite to the limit.

Two Weeks In Tangiers

Natasha is feeling deprived of kinky sex. Unfortunately, she walks straight into the flabby embrace of the awful Monty Hartle, whose main joy in life is the humiliation of women. Before long, Natasha finds that she can't handle the filthy Monty, and that what her therapist, Gabrielle, really wants is not work-related at all! 
 
A powerful, believable story of `mischievious Natasha on a humiliating, exhilatating, wet-knickered thrill ride through rural France. Titles in this series featuring Natasha are: Brat,Temper Tantrums, Dirty Laundry, Peach, When she was Bad, In Disgrace, What Happens to Bad Girls? and Bare, White &amp; Rosy.

Dirty Laundry

When naughty Penny Birch is walking in the woods one day, she is surprised to find a couple pony-carting. Penny is so excited by watching this new form of adult fun that she has to pleasure herself on the spot. Realising how keen she is to discover for herself what it is all about, she begins to investigate this bizarre world of whips and harnesses, of crops and restraints. 
 
Firstly punished by the mysterious pony-girl enthusiasts for misbehaving in the woods, she is soon accepted into their fold after demonstrating her enthusiasm for being made to act in a lewd manner. But will she ever be able to win the highest accolade in their world of kinky games - the honour of being a pony-girl?

Penny in Harness

Lisette Ashton

When private investigator Jo Valentine is called upon to help a coven which is being forced out of its village, she is immersed in a world of orgiastic pagan ritual, lesbian SM and bizarre throwbacks to the days of sadistic witchfinding practice. The next volume in Lisette Ashton's Black series of bestselling erotica.

The Black Flame

William Doughty

Just why would Mary go back to David and his bizarre bathroom? Whatcould be crazier than designing and equipping a luxurious bathroom for the soapy, slippery domination of women? Yet she has returned to submit to watery domination, while dressed in fetish garments of plastic 
and rubber. And having seen the bathroom, can her friends - Jack, Carol and Faye - resist plunging into slippery submission?

Aqua Domination

Wendy Swanscombe

Without time to draw breath from the dignities already heaped on them, the three sisters of Disciplined Skin - blonde Anna, redhead Beth, raven Gwen - are plunged into the new tortures and humiliations gleefully devised for them by their mysterious leather-clad captor Herr Abraham Barengelt. Putting its heroines through ordeals that range from mild to perversely bizarre, Beast is sure to confirm the reputation its author has already established for surreal erotic depravity that entertains as much as it arouses.

Beast

Gabrielle Marcola

It's not a common occurrence that a gorgeous hunk ties you up, robs the house you're stayng in, and kisses you breathless. Unless you're Maggie Quinton, that is: savvy, sexy architect working on a remote island off Florida. In Maggie's case, the buff burglar keeps coming back in search of an item he claims the apartment's owner stole from him. 
 
Flustered and aroused, Maggie calls in her jet-setting sister for moral support, but flirty, dark-haired Diane is much more interested in the island's ruggedly handsome police chief, 'Griff' Grifford. And then there's his deputy, Cosgrove, with his bulging biceps and creative uses for handcuffs. Can the lovely sisters keep from uttering the terrible 'c' word - commitment - to men that are a little too wild to be good for them?

Bedding The Burglar

Yolanda Celbridge

Domineering Trina Guelph is intrigued at her new corporate mission - to run the quaint Louisiana island of New Arras, a female academy with a code of flagellant eighteenth-century French discipline, to train submissive, sultry southern belles. She suffers serial misunderstandings as she is imprisoned as a spy, then the subject of court intrigues and battles for domination, waged with the lash and the tawse. Throughout her ordeal, Trina quivers under strict discipline until she accepts her true nature, as a submissive belle. As long as Trina is aorund, the men of the South are sure to rise again and again.

Belle Submission

G C Scott

When Harold sells his flat, he also exchanges another kind of contract with the new owner: an agreement that involves his complete domination of an attractive, older woman who adores extreme restraint and rope bondage. And so his dark and intensely erotic initiation to the far reaches of control and sexual power begins in the most ordinary settings,with the most ordinary equipment. And despite being shocked at how far Samantha needs to go, can he resist taking her there?

Binding Promises

When innocent Angie Stark takes the fall for her Porsche-driving boyfriend's stock fraud, she finds herself entombed in Wrigley Scrubs, an experimental white-collar prison. Wrigley is a modern-day do-the-girls hall, ruled with a firm hand by the governor, Miss Horsfall, and complete with tight uniforms and ferocious cat-spats - the first often shredded by the second! 
 
Once there, she forms a thrillingly perverse bond with wardress Isobel Coker. But Isobel is having doubts about the regime. Will Angie be able to reassure her of its redemptive effects? And why is worldly, assertive Abby Gaunt, porn-film entrepreneur, sniffing around the prison's lease?

Caged!

Nikki Magennis

Julia Spark is a professional dancer, newly graduated. Jobs are hard to find and, after a curious audition, she finds herself running away with the circus - a circus of erotica. 
 
It's an adult show full of bizarre performers trained to arouse the audience. And not only does the ringmaster mesmerise his artists, but also seems to have taken a special interest in Julia. He dares her to experiment , plays with her desires and encourages Julia to explore the darker secret side of her sexuality.

Circus Excite

Christina Shelly

Michael is a high-flying graduate beginning a career at Lovelace Fashion and Design under the tutelage of the haughty chief executive, Emily Lovelace. What Michael really wants, however, is to spend his life as a masochistic she-male. To his surprise, fear and excitement, LFD have the perfect opening for a man of his predilections. Sheathed in silks and satins subservient and suitably restrained, Michael might just fit the brief...

Company Of Slaves

Emma Holly

The Coates Inn restaurant in Cape Cod is about to go out of business when its striking owner, Abby, jumps at a stranger's offer of help - both in her kitchen and her bedroom. Storm, a handsome chef, claims to have a secret weapon: an aphrodisiac menu that her patrons won't be able to resist. It certainly works on Abby - who gives in to the passions she has denied herself for years. 
 
But can this playboy chef really be Abby's hero if her body means more to him than her heart, and his initial plan was to steal the restaurant from under her nose? Storm soon turns the restaurant around, but Abby's insatiable desires have taken over her life. She's never known a guy into crazy sex like him before, and she wants to spend every spare moment getting as much intense erotic pleasure as she can. Meanwhile, her best friend Marissa becomes suspicious of the new wonder-boy in the kitchen. Before things get really out of control, someone has to assume responsibility. But can Abby tear herself away from the object of her lustful attention long enough to see what's really going on?

Cooking up a Storm

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The adventures of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone's life: middle school. The hilarious and internationally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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