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

Adam Henson

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

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

Adam Higginbotham

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

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Adam J. Kurtz

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

Adam Johnson

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

Adam Kay

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

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Adam Mars-Jones

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

Adam O'Riordan

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

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

Adam Richardson

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

Adam Roberts

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

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

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Adam Ross

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

Adam Rutherford

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smyth

Adam Sweeting

Adam Tandy

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

Adam Thirlwell

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

Adam Thorpe

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

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Lucinda Carrington

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

A Dangerous Game

Georgia Angelis

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

Bella's Blade

Roxanne Carr

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

Bouquet Of Black Orchids

Katrina Vincenzi-Thyne

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

Dream Lover

Maria Del Rey

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

Eden Unveiled

Sophie Danson

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

Moon Of Desire

M Malone

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

No Angel

Saskia Hope

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

No Lady

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

Outlandia

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

River Of Secrets

Cheryl Mildenhall

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

Summer Of Enlightenment

Kendal Grahame

Grahame Kendal

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

The Cloak Of Aphrodite

K Grahame

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

The Reluctant Virgin

Bridget Doyle

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

Sheela-Na-Gig

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

Dark Delights

Stephanie Calvin

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

Disciples Of Shame

Kit Mason

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

A Multitude of Sins

Penny Birch

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

Penny Pieces

Natasha Linnet is the perfect modern girl - single successful, independent and capable of putting men in their place with a single word. Yet she has a single desire, and not one that she could ever admit to smart friends. She wants to be spanked, and not just by her girlfriend or any of her male admirers. Instead she needs proper discipline, and from someone strict enough to take her across their lap, pull down her expensive silk panties and slap her bare bottom raw. First, though, she has to find someone who will see her not as the aloof young woman she appears to be, but as what she is underneath - a spoilt brat. 
 
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 in this series featuring Natasha are: Temper Tantrums, Dirty Laundry, Peach, When she was Bad, In Disgrace, What Happens to Bad Girls? and Bare, White &amp; Rosy.

Brat

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

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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

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Blacklist

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

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Born Wicked

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

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Brotherband

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

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