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Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham &amp; Banerjee series of crime novels set in 1920s India and the British Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year 2025 Hunted. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and won various awards including the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, the Prix du Polar Européen, and the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing. 
 
 
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Ada Moncrieff is the author of Murder Most Festive, Murder at the Theatre Royale and Murder at Maybridge Castle. She lives and works in London.

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Adam Aleksic is a linguist and content creator posting educational videos as the “Etymology Nerd” to an audience of over two million. As a linguistics student at Harvard College, he founded and served as president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. He’s discussed online language on NPR, repeatedly contributed to The Washington Post, and his work has been mentioned in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. He’s lectured on language and social media at Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, and other top universities, including a TEDx talk at the University of Pennsylvania. Adam is based in New York City, where he spends a lot of time scrolling TikTok for “research.”

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Adam Alter is an Associate Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, and holds an affiliated appointment within the Psychology Department. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel and Behave and has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Wired, Popular Science and numerous other publications.

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Professor Adam Balen is lead clinician at one of the UK's largest and most successful IVF units at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. In recognition of his research on fertility and related conditions, he holds a DSc (the highest academic degree in medicine) from the University of Leeds. Adam is internationally renowned, holding roles with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Federation of Gyneacology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gyneacologists (RCOG). He runs both NHS and private fertility clinics so he understands the issues that arise from both sides and he works closely with fertility patient support organisations across the UK. Adam regularly features in the media on all aspects of reproductive health and lectures widely throughout the world.

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Adam Brookes grew up in the UK and was a journalist with BBC News for many years. As a foreign correspondent he was based in Indonesia, China and the United States. Along the way he reported from many other countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea. He lives in Washington DC.

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Adam Christopher is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith and Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town. He has also written official tie-in novels for the hit CBS television show Elementary and the award-winning Dishonored video game franchise. Co-creator of the twenty-first-century incarnation of Archie Comics superhero The Shield, Adam has also written for the universes of Doctor Who and World of Warcraft, and is a contributor to the internationally bestselling Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View anniversary anthology series and the all-ages Star Wars Adventures comic. Adam’s original novels include Made to Kill and The Burning Dark, among many others, and his debut novel Empire State was both a SciFi Now and Financial Times book of the year.

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Adam Foulds's most recent books are In the Wolf’s Mouth, The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has recently been awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’.

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Adam Galinsky is currently the Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from Princeton University in Social Psychology and his B.A. from Harvard University.

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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. His books have sold millions of copies, his TED talks have been viewed more than 30 million times, and he hosts the hit podcast Re:Thinking. His pioneering research on motivation and meaning has enabled people to reach their aspirations and exceed others' expectations. His viral piece on languishing was the most-read New York Times article of 2021 and the most-saved article across platforms. He has been recognized as one of the world's ten most influential management thinkers and Fortune's 40 Under 40, and has received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. Grant received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and he is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and their three children.

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Adam and Charlotte met in Zanzibar while working with Voluntary Services Overseas. Upon their return to the UK, Charlotte completed an MA at Oxford Brookes and started her career in publishing. Adam in the meantime became writer-in-residence at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre before co-founding Storytelling Schools, an international organisation dedicated to training teachers in oracy, literacy and creativity. Adam and Charlotte's first book together was the best-selling and award-winning Spaghetti with the Yeti. Since then, Adam and Charlotte have continued to follow their passion for creating engaging books that inspire interaction and creativity in young readers.

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ADAM HAMDY is a bestselling author and screenwriter. His most recent novel, The Other Side of Night, was an NPR best book of 2022 and a New York Times best thriller of the year, and has been described as ingenious and deeply moving. He is the author of the Scott Pearce series of modern spy thrillers, Black 13, Red Wolves and White Fire, and the Pendulum trilogy. Keep up to date with his latest books and news at www.adamhamdy.com.

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Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Imagine Me Gone and Union Atlantic. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. His journalism on culture and politics has appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He lives in New York City.

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Lisette Ashton

Chained in his own dungeon, former master McGivern is at the mercy of punishments far crueller than any he ever devised. The torture he receives is perverse, degrading and always sexually humiliating. Determined to overthrow his gaolers he forms an uneasy relationship with the most sadistic of his female tormentors and agrees to all her demands in his bid to regain control of the castle. But his greatest fear is that he will come to enjoy his bondage before he can return to his dominant position.

Slave Sentence

Yolanda Celbridge

Punishment, discipline, lascivious behaviour and a strict hierarchy form the basis of life at the Chateau de Trefouilly. Maldona, an order of women devoted to Sapphic love, is governed by similar rules. When a twist of fate brings the blonde, volupuous Jana and her raven-haired lover, Cassie, to the remote castle, they cannot help but feel at home. They submit willingly to its cultured and dominant Master, only to regret their decision when his capacity for cruelty becomes all too evident. 
 
Seeming to have learnt some harsh lessons, Jana and Cassie use their wiles - and their considerable sexual charms - to ingratiate themselves with the Master once again. What he does not know, however, is that the women are planning to give him a taste of his own medicine.

The Castle of Maldona

Zoe Le Verdier

Adele is a talented ballet dancer, but her dance company is in danger of losing its funding. When Rafique offers the company his backing in return for a private performance, Adele is keen to help. She must dance the role of a sex-crazed demon, and she learns to relish her new role.

The Succubus

Kendal Grahame

Lisa and Janet are two beautiful teenagers who are driven by their insatiable libidos to discover new and more exciting ways to satisfy their depraved desires. They become servants of the enigmatic Mr Gee, who lures them to his manor deep in the heart of rural England. There they are introduced to Madam Stone, who is to be their instructress in the arts of sexual gratification: once fully tutored, they can pass on their new-found knowledge to their willing pupils. 
 
But there is something else happening within the opulence of the old manor - something sinister. Lisa and Janet are blind to the danger they are in, intent as they are on exploring new realms of debauchery. Will they realise the risk before it's too late?

The Training Of Fallen Angels

Jan Smith

In 1314, as a bitter Highland winter draws in, Lady Blanche McNaghten, the young widow of a chieftain is rediscovering her taste for sexual pleasures. Then fate throws her into the path of Black McGregor, a sworn enemy. 
 
Can their mutual lust for each other diminish the natural antagonism?

To Take A Queen

Katrina Young

Virginia has been brought up to be a demure titled lady, but illicit contact with her naughty aristocratic French cousin, Symonne, has schooled her in the basics of the arts of sensual pleasure. But even under the spell of the dominant Symonne, Virginia has remained a virgin. Defiantly, she now seeks to lose her virginity and sate her prodigious sexual needs in whichever ways will bring her the greatest pleasure.

Virginia's Quest

Philippa Masters

When Margaret answers an advert which seems to promise an escape from her dull life, little does she realise that her fantasies of total submission are soon to be fulfilled. Becoming 'S', she enters into a hidden world of domination, subservience and discipline, in which she is punished for enjoying orgasms without permission and forced to perform humiliating tasks she secretly finds highly arousing. 
 
With the help of expert disciplinarians she explores the furthest bounds of her sexuality, finally realising the depravity of her darkest desires. 
 
Philippa Masters is the author of the highly popular Lydia series.

'S' - A Story Of Submission

Lucinda Carrington

Lady Katherine Gainsworth is compromised into a marriage of convenience which takes her from her English home to the to Prussian Duchy of Heldenburg. Once there, she is introduced to her future in-laws, the van Krohnensteins, but finds they have some unconventional ideas of how to welcome her into the family. 
 
Although Heldenburg seems outwardly respectable, it has a thriving underworld of secret clubs devoted to illicit and bizarre pleasures. Katherine soon finds out from her ally and secret lover, Sergei, that the Count himself is no stranger to these places.Caught up in an intrigue of political treachery, jewel theft and sexual blackmail, Katherine is determined to keep control of her own destiny.

A Dangerous Lady

Martine Marquand

Virtuous Clara Fairfax leaves her ordered life in Georgian England to embark on the Grand Tour of Europe. Instructed by her mysterious fiancé, Count Anton di Maliban, Clara travels through the cities of decadent Europe, from icebound Amsterdam to sultry Constantinople, undergoing a series of lessons in pleasure and pain. 
 
By making Clara explore each of the five senses in the most perverse but delightful ways he can devise, Anton awakens the sensualist within her.But Clara longs to submit the Count to the most delicious torment. Will he be able to restrain his pupil once she has learnt her final lesson?

A Feast For The Senses

Jo is too young and adventurous to submit to the stifling morality of the religious mission house where she's grown up.When her friend Emmi runs away to live in a pagan community in the depths of Yorkshire, Jo follows, keen to open her mind and body to the realities of the wild, untamed sex they practise there. 
 
Michael is the charismatic leader of the group, who promises her the ultimate exploration of her newly awakened animals passions.As the summer heat intensifies, and preparations begin for their orgiastic midsummer festival, Jo is expected to play a central part in the cult's increasingly bizarre rites.Will she ever re-adjust to normal society?

Animal Passions

Helena Ravenscroft

Samantha Bentley and her cousin Ross have been an illicit item for years. When Ross becomes involved with the submissive Dr. Louisa Richmond, Sam senses Ross's waning interest in her own volatile and domineering personality. She reads the classic novel Venus in Furs, which inspires her to experiment with being his slave for a month. 
 
Dr. Louisa is determined not to be left out, however, and when she shows up at Sam and Ross's country hideaway, there is a sudden shift in the rituals of power and punishment. Submitting to the sexual whims of others changes Samantha's idea of how far she's willing to go, and each cathartic act of humiliation pushes her further into the realms of liberation and pleasure.

Bound by Contract

Cheryl Mildenhall

Francesca, Taran and Veronique are partners in Falconer Associates, a London-based advertising agency. The three women are good friends who run a professional business but they're not averse to taking their pleasure with certain male employees. When they put in a bid to win a new design account they are pitched against four other agencies, including one owned by the notorious hedonist, Oscar Rage. 
 
Despite Francesca's efforts to resist Oscar's arrogant charm, she finds him impossible to ignore. Fortunately, Taran and Veronique are on hand to distract him and, hopefully, prevent him from seizing the commission. The sexually-charged atmosphere is set for seduction and a very sensual celebration awaits the triumphant winner.

By Any Means

Gene Craven

Christina, raven-haired beauty and fount of lewd desires, must push her sexuality to its limits to prove her worthiness to the enigmatic Mr Robson and his sensual assistant, Ms Gilbert. 
 
Susan, a luscious but meek shop-girl, finds release and undreamt-of power as exotic aphrodisiacs unlock her wanton core and lead her into the realm of submission and domination. 
 
Together they share a flat with the mysterious Cathy, a girl who seems to like dressing in rubber and leather. How soon before they discover the truth about the Princess Catherine, her deluxe disciplinary treatment, and the power that binds them all?

Christina Wished

Fleur Reynolds

A lush, erotic historica novel set in 16th century Peru... 
 
Left in the care of a debauched viceroy , the young princess lnez is determined to find an escape route from her guardian's vile clutches. She leaves her palatial home and sets off into unknown territory, hot on the trail of her lover, the insatiable Lorenzo. Rescued from certain death by a group of Amazonian warriors, Inez is recognised as a tribal queen and is initiated into the ways of the forest people. 
 
Simultaneously, a young English woman is searching for her brother: the licentious adventurer, Lord Andrew Parsons. Deep in the heart of the forest, the young princess has discovered a young man whose capacity for the more esoteric physical enjoyments seems unlimited. Very soon, all their paths will cross.

Conquered

Melissa Macneal

It's 1895. Traded as payment for her aunt's gambling debts, southern belle Vanita is whisked off to a decaying plantation house where Franklin Harte and his curious family are quite happy to receive her. She is to marry Franklin's son, Damon, whose bizarre hobbies and even more bizarre sister are enough to send Vanita's head spinning. Yet,  their games of darkly weird and freaky eroticism intrigue her and certainly prove distracting. However, to reclaim her fortune, however, she has to figure a way to escape Franklin's obsessive humiliations...

Demon's Dare

K Grahame

Janet and Lisa are very special girls. Blessed with astounding good looks and libidos bordering on nymphomania, their mission is a simple one; to have as much naughty fun as possible. But a powerful guardian is keeping a watchful eye over proceedings. Only when the girls have performed every lascivious act known to mankind will he reveal his true identity. 
 
It's a challenge they accept with relish!

Fallen Angels

Juliet Hastings

1186, the Holy Land. 
 
Thibault of Lontjoie wants his lovely sister, Melisende, to stay unwed. But her heart is set on Thibault's castellan, Robert, whose chivalry, prowess and beauty have made him her heart's desire. But even if her brother were willing, Robert is too poor to make a suitable match for a noblewoman, and too honourable to take advantage of her. 
 
This means that Melisende must seduce Robert - a challenging task for a virgin. She sets about using her sensual body and her ingenious mind to cope with whatever fate can throw at her; capture, exposure, betrayal and shame. In her brother's castle and the Emir's harem, she exerts her resourcefulness and employs her appetite for pleasure to secure the prize of her forbidden crusade.

Forbidden Crusade

Julia Marlowe

After meeting the enigmatic and persuasive Gilles de Ravennes at her ex-husband's party, Ariane Fontaine takes him on board as a partner in the exclusive club she has created at her luxury home in Paris. It's a place where the rich and ribald can indulge their most erotic fantasies. 
 
When shy young teacher, Fleur Prentice, falls for Gilles' Rasputin-like charms at a London jazz club, she has no idea what she is letting herself in for. Gilles and Ariane draw Fleur into a life of bizarre sex and rituals of discipline, played out at the Theatre of Dreams. 
 
Complications arise when Gilles secretly invites Fleur to his country house to test the limits of her sexually submissive nature. Ariane steps in quickly, deciding their covert behaviour needs correction. In doing so, however, she learns more about the hidden side of her own erotic temperament than she'd previously imagined.

Intimate Games

Roxanne Carr

The young Cirina has grown up knowing only the life of caravanserai. Venetian artist Antonio Ballerei is making his way across the Gobi to reclaim a priceless Byzantine jewel. When the two of them meet, their passion for each other finds all too brief expression. 
 
When Tartar warriors take Cirina to the pleasure palace of the Kublai Khan, she is intoxicated by the splendour of her surroundings. Her taste for sensual indulgence awakened, she is overjoyed to find Antonio already there. Embarking on an erotically charged mission to recover the jewel together, they find adventure and danger are never far away.

Jewel of Xanadu

Jean-Philippe Auborg

Moving to London to start a new career, shy young Philippa is happy to accept a houseshare with a young couple, Jack and Jenny, little realising the extent of the depraved games of bondage and submission they like to play. When she wakes one night to hear Jenny's cries of pleasure as Jack chastises her, she goes to investigate. 
 
And so begins Philippa's journey, an initiation into new realms of perversion, taking her to the limits of her own ability to submit - and to the heights of debauchery.

Journey from Innocence

Katrina Vincenzi-Thyne

Historian Julia Symonds is beginning to lose her patience with David, her patronising and overbearing fiancé, as they cruise around the Mediterranean. Then she is approached by the charismatic - and sexually sophisticated - Rupert and Merise, who need her help in their quest for the lost treasure of Ancient Troy. 
 
The exact location of the city's remains is a secret, known only to a ruthless criminal fraternity, and Julia must call upon her powers of seduction to extract the necessary information from its ringleader. Her previous shyness and inhibitions forgotten, she soon finds herself relishing the ensuing game of sensual deceptions - and the numerous other pleasures to which her new associates introduce her.

Odyssey

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

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

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

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

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.

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Tim and Biscuit, two unlikely friends, always seem to get themselves into difficult situations. From their first meeting in Cliffhanger, where bookish Tim is forced to endure an activities camp, to Buried Alive, where a quiet camping holiday turns out to be full of surprises, there is never a dull moment with these two around.Jaqueline Wilson’s hilarious duo of books catalogues their escapades, triumphs and failures, with a good helping of snacks along the way!

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