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.

Adam Hills

Adam Howling

Adam J. Kurtz

Adam Jacot de Boinod

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.

Adam Larkum

Adam Lashinsky

Adam Macqueen

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 Rackley

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.

Adam Robinson

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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Everyman's Pocket Classics complements highly successful Pocket Poets series, offering the best prose writing in a handy pocket-sized format. Like all Everyman Library books, each title is printed on a cream-wove, acid-free paper with full cloth sewn binding, headbands and silk ribbon marker. Eminently collectable and great gifts.

A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology has a full-cloth binding and silk ribbon marker. Accounts of ardour and transgression also flow from unexpected pens: an astonishingly explicit scene from an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant's heated tale of a young peasant woman offering her breast to a starving stranger on a train. Hunger is the fierce undercurrent to these stories: the gnawing lust of one lover for another, or the greedy pursuit of a particular inclination. The elegant depravity of an eighteenth-century French aristocrat, the dreamlike seductions of an Egyptian jinni in the form of a snake, the brutal anonymity of a highway truck-stop encounter--the stories in this richly varied collection reveal that the urge to articulate sexual desire is as inventive as it is timeless.

Erotic Stories

Emma Holly

Behind closed doors, the wicked play... 
 
Charity Wills is a heartbreaker, and she is determined to fund her education by any means necessary. 
 
B. G. Grantham is obsessed with the unattainable – the thrill of being refused the one thing he craves. 
 
Invited to stay with the erotic-minded recluse in his mansion, Charity provides the challenge he so desires. And with the arrival of Eric Berne, her sexy ‘keeper’, she finds herself tempted by both men...

Strange Attractions

Portia Da Costa

Marrying a billionaire? 
 
It’s every girl’s fantasy but ever since meeting brooding sexy tycoon, John Smith, Lizzie has never been entirely sure of his true feelings for her. 
 
Has he proposed marriage because he truly loves her or just to keep her in his bed?

The Accidental Bride

Evie Hunter

Passion will have its way ... 
 
When museum curator Sinead O'Sullivan is charged with stealing the Fire of Autumn, a dazzling ruby with a history of violence and treachery, bail is set at one million Swiss francs. Investigator Niall Moore is hired to stop her fleeing and to find the jewel. 
 
Their sexual chemistry is electric but logic says to ignore it. Desperate as she is to convince Niall of her innocence, Sinead cannot reveal everything she knows. And the feisty red-head's improbable tale tells him that she is not to be trusted. 
 
Yet it's impossible to ignore the carnal heat between them. Niall, an expert interrogator, uses every trick of the trade - and every weapon in his erotic armoury - to get at the truth. Sinead, a fast learner, counters his every move with one of her own. Thief and thief-taker fight for dominance and there can be only one winner. 
 
But what happens in their red-hot game of cat-and-mouse when criminals chasing the precious jewel come after Sinead ... and the stakes become deadly?

The Pleasures of Autumn

Erotic Romance

L. Marie Adeline

Hidden desires are set free in SECRET Shared – the intoxicating, intensely sexy second novel in the internationally bestselling S.E.C.R.E.T series. 
 
Cassie Robichaud has come a long way from the invisible, insecure woman she was a year ago. As she takes her place as a guide for S·E·C·R·E·T – an underground society dedicated to helping women realize their wildest, most intimate sexual fantasies – Cassie tries to put the bittersweet memories of the man who was almost hers behind her. 
 
But while helping a new member, Dauphine, to live out the passionate adventures she’s kept buried for so long, Cassie’s connection with one of the male recruits may unravel the one thing she’s afraid to leave exposed: her heart. Can a passion formed in fantasy ever become love in Cassie’s reality? 
 
An irresistible, erotically charged and unforgettable romance series, perfect for fans of E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy and Sylvia Day’s Bared to You.

Secret Shared

(S.E.C.R.E.T. Book 2)

Eden Bradley

Are you ready for the dark side of love…? 
 
The moments when Ava Gregory feels her most beautiful and complete are when she is tied up and bound. 
 
Then she meets Desmond Hale, a master in the ancient Japanese bondage art of Shibari. He takes her to the very edge of ecstasy. But having learned the beauty of surrender, dare Ava risk her heart? 
 
The Beauty of Surrender is a hot erotic romance which will delight fans of E L James, Sylvia Day and Portia Da Costa.

The Beauty of Surrender

Lori Perkins

When things go bump in the night... 
 
Heat up those cold, dark Autumn nights with this collection of steamy short stories of paranormal intrigue... 
 
Full of fangs, claws and superhuman passion, these tales are guaranteed to give you goosebumps! 
 
Black Lace Books – the leading imprint of erotic fiction for women

Trick or Treats

Peter Birch

Richard, Matt and Julia have been involved with the London BDSM scene for a long time. But they find themselves jaded as what used to be dark, edgy pleasures are now too easily accessible and lack mystique. 
 
But when they meet Jason, ‘Master Stern’ and ‘T-bone’ all that is about to change. All three men are polygamists, each the alpha-male among a group of women. Arrogant, self-assured and convinced of their own status, the men are about to show Richard, Matt and Julia the true pleasures of polygamy.

The Girl Thieves

Cheryl Mildenhall

The reading of her father's will presents Angelique with a few surprises. Not only was he not her real father, he left her a large amount of money and a share in a hotel. But it is a hotel with a difference, with secret passages and rooms where staff and guests can act out their erotic fantasies.

A Sense Of Entitlement

Cleo Cordell

In 1570s Spain, Carlotta was the devil's creature and scheming, covetous Don Felipe was obsessed with her. A pity that she loathed him. When cheated out of her inheritance, Carlotta hires the help of a rugged buccaneer, and she exacts much pleasure in wrongfully taking back what is rightfully hers.

The Crimson Buccaneer

Alison Tyler

‘I knew what I wanted – Someone who wouldn’t laugh or scowl or turn away in disgust when I confessed my darkest fantasies. Someone who had a brush, and a belt, and a set of cuffs and was not afraid to use them.’ 
 
Based on the author’s real life experiences, this is a fictional account of a submissive and her quest for the perfect dominant. Dark Secret Love is a modern-day Story of O with a kinky fairy-tale twist.

Dark Secret Love: A Story of Submission

Carrie Williams

Will the student become the master? 
 
When aspiring writer Genevieve Carter takes a job for Anne Tournier, her favourite erotic novelist, she fast becomes her muse. 
 
Led into a world of temptation with a number of hot men, Genevieve finds that some pleasures are too hard to deny. 
 
But while her mistress is happy to encourage her bad behaviour, she’s not prepared for Genevieve to become her rival...

The Apprentice

Black Lace Classics

Anne Tourney

When Jordi stumbles across a blog that recounts the sexual adventures of a sultry love-addict named Dana, she feels her identity begin to shift towards that of the fearless and enticing blogger. Dana's adventures grow wilder by the day and Jordi can't stop herself from slipping into the digital world to sample its stolen delights. Will Jordi be able to go back to the realities of flesh-life – and the possibility of true love – after spending time in Dana's sexy virtual skin?

Kiss Between My Lines: A Rouge Erotic Romance

When Charlene Mitchell waves goodbye to the glitter of LA and moves to a small Californian beachside town, she is charmed by its close-knit community – until she makes out with a local firefighter and becomes the subject of gossip. Soon, it seems that everyone in the town knows about Charlene's scandalous sex life. 
 
Unable to squash the rumours, Charlene takes matters into her own hands. If the residents of Raysville thought a passionate firestation kiss was hot news, they will be blown away by what she has in mind...

Rumours: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Zak Jane Keir

Rosa's has tried to put her kinky days behind her, and built a new life as the landlady of a popular pub. But the past isn't easily forgotten. It seems like her beautiful new barman Daniel really needs a strict Mistress to take him in hand, and it's Rosa he has a deep submissive crush on. 
 
Natasha, Rosa's new best friend, wants to help her rediscover her inner dominatrix, particularly now that legendary fetish club The Scarlet House is about to relaunch. 
 
But Rosa's previous ventures on the scene ended badly, and Daniel's relationship with the drummer in his band is closer than he's letting on. It seems like everyone's got a dirty little secret deep inside...

Black Heart

Cyrian Amberlake

In this extraordinary novel Jennifer describes in detail and with painful clarity her Initiation at the hands of the Professor and his beautiful wife. She learns, one by one, the Devices of discipline; the Areas of her body on which punishment is inflicted; and the Positions that she must adopt to receive chastisement. 
 
She soon becomes a willing pupil, and eager to learn; nonetheless her frequent errors earn her extra strokes, and she starts to wonder whether her Initiation will ever end.

Jennifer's Instruction

Lisette Allen

A lavish erotic historical set in 18th Century Russia... 
 
St Petersburg. Summer 1788. The beautiful and decadent Russian capital is in a state of turmoil because the Empress Catherine, well-known for her lascivious appetite, is on the look-out for a new lover. And her entire court is indulging in the tantalising quest to find someone suitably young, handsome and virile. 
 
Nadya, newly arrived in the city on a quest of her own, soon finds herself drawn headlong into a web of intrigue and lust because, it seems, she has just found the perfect man: a gorgeous Swedish seafarer called Axel. Nadya wants him for a lover but so, too, does everyone else. Things are further complicated by escalating hostilities between Russia and Sweden and it isn't long before treachery and sedition add to the sexual tensions and intrigues already rife at the imperial court.

Nadya's Quest

Arriving in India in the early days of the Raj, Amy Spencer realises the stuffy world of the British Army wives is not for her. Taking tea and playing croquet hold a little appeal for a young woman entranced with sensual delights on offer elsewhere. 
 
She is shown places where the other women dare not venture - where Tantric mysteries and the Kama Sutra come alive. And it's only a matter of time before she's besotted by the charms of Ravinder, the Maharaja's exquisitely handsome son, who will show her the pathway to absolute pleasure.

Path Of The Tiger

'The imprint that has legitimised erotica for women.' 
Publishing News 
 
This is the long-awaited first anthology of Black Lace erotic short stories. The book contains 20 unique, original and arousing tales guaranteed to ignite and excite. With contributions from women from Europe, America and Australia, this compendium provides a variety of settings and themes. Explicitly sexual and highly entertaining, Sugar and Spice is a kaleidoscope of female fantasy. This is unashamed erotic indulgence for women.

Sugar & Spice

Roxanne Carr

Since its inception, the Black Orchid Hotel has gone from strength to strength with many contented female clients passing through its doors. As joint owner of this luxury pleasure palace, Maggie can have her every need satisfied at any time. 
 
But she has begun to tire of her sophisticated lovers and is encouraging the attentions of the more rugged men in the area, including the local fire officer and a notorious biker. However, Maggie had better watch out. There's one new friendship which may prove to be too hot to handle.

The Black Orchid Hotel

A tight knot of desire uncoiled in Gwendoline as Jonathan pressed against her. This was the feeling her maid had told her about. Now Gwendoline was about to discover for herself how it felt to have a man inside her. 
 
The 19th century, a time of exploration and discovery, and the young and spirited Gwendoline Farnshawe is determined not to be left in the parlour making conversation. Especially when the handsome and celebrated anthropologist, Jonathan Kimberton, is planning a trip to Africa. 
 
Revelling against Victorian society's expectations of a young woman, and lured by the mysterious ritual and exotic climate of this exciting continent, Gwendoline sets sail with her entourage. She is bound for a land of unknown pleasures which are destined to awaken her true sensuality. 
 
By the author of The Captive Flesh and The Senses Bejewelled.

Velvet Claws

Aishling Morgan

Set in an alternate world of gothic eroticism, Sex Toy follows the fortunes of the city states of Suza, led by the flagellant but fair Lord Cornus and his Ladyship, the beautiful Tian-Sha. When a slaver, Savarin appears among the pleasure-loving residents of Suza, they soon find that Savarin's kiss is more punishing than they had thought.

Pleasure Toy

Because sometimes a hot partner just isn’t enough… 
 
In November 2012 we brought you Quickies: Sex Toys, a deliciously erotic collection of kinky play stories. But our Black Lace authors had so many more tales of enhanced fun in the bedroom that we had to give you a second edition! 
 
More Sex Toys contains even more short stories that feature exciting toys and even steamier occasions for you to enjoy.

Black Lace Quickies: More Sex Toys

A collection of erotic short stories

Seduced by a billionaire… 
 
After being mistaken for a high-class call girl when they first met, Lizzie now enjoys a fiery relationship with John, her gorgeous and incredibly rich older man. Devoted, romantic and devilishly kinky, John knows exactly how to satisfy her every need. 
 
But John has a dark side – and a past he won’t talk about. He might welcome Lizzie in his bed – and out of it – but will she ever be anything more than a rich man’s mistress?

The Accidental Mistress

A straight-up businesswoman, a flighty art student and a bad-ass goth, Lauryn, Chloe and Veronica all have one thing in common – they long to escape their mundane lives. 
 
And Joel, a freelance journalist who can’t help but find all women irresistible, ends up falling in love with all of them. Whose fantasies will come true?

Lying in Mid-Air: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Laura Thornton

When Sasha comes across an old diary belonging to the late Lady Amelia Asher, the centuries-old manuscript transforms her life drastically. From the mundane and unappealing, Sasha finds herself erotically reawakened and she begins to push the boundaries of pleasure that she has never before experienced. 
 
Influenced by the diary’s tales of sexual exploits Sasha becomes more and more like the fervent Lady Amelia, but she is unaware that the passionate and powerful author is far from gone. Amelia’s ghostly presence lingers and Sasha’s climaxes become other-worldly…

Haunted

Virginia Lasalle

Candida has a new job at a secret government establishment high in the Bavarian Alps. But this is no ordinary mission, and her terms of employment are most irregular. Top-secret investigations are being conducted into female arousal and pretty, highly-sexed young women like Candie are needed to help research. If all goes well, Candie will be trained for a very special mission. She has only to obey the institute's strange rules. 
 
However, the girls cannot resist being naughty. There are so many tempting distractions - not least with each other. Then there's Sister Serena, who performs the intimate medical examinations, and Herr Direktor who oversees the whole project. With so many delectable lovelies in their charge, they too are prone to temptation.

Candida's Secret Mission

Kerri Sharp

This is the second of the Pandora's Box anthologies of erotic writing by women. The book includes extracts from the best-selling and most popular titles of the Black Lace series, as well as four completely new stories. 
 
Pandora's Box 2 is a celebration of four years of this revolutionary imprint. The diversity of the material is a testament to the many facets of the female erotic imagination. This is unashamed erotic imagination.

Pandora's Box 2

A trip of a lifetime... 
 
Amity's music career is going nowhere, her temporary job has slammed to a halt and her vintage convertible Thunderbird is starting to look like her next address. So when her stepsister, Heather, calls from Nevada begging for a ride home, Amity goes to her rescue. 
 
Only, on arriving, she learns that she will have more than one travelling companion… three more in fact: Daniel, Zack and Randy, the members of Amity’s all-time favourite boyband. 
 
But can she tear them away from the lustful gaze of her stepsister and convince them that she's the one who should be driving their fantasies?

Head-On Heart: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Dissatisfied with the lack of romance in her life, Dori returns to her hometown with the hopes of healing her wounded heart. But the small town has changed: it is restored to its former beauty. And not only that, much to her chagrin, Dori finds she’s been transported back to the 80s! 
 
She now has the opportunity to fully make the most of her teenage years. She even ends up dating a young teacher from her local high school. With time on her side, Dori not only has the chance to save her town from ruin, but also her heart …

Melt With You: A Rouge Erotic Romance

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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.

Boudica

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Bridge

Bridget Jones's Diary

Brief Encounters

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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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