Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Aran Ashe

Tormunil: the mysterious citadel of erotic mastery from which there can be no escape. Sianon is the beautiful love-slave whose breast weep milk: Josef the outlander who tries to save her, only to be drawn ever deeper into a vortex of perverse desires. 
 
The thwarted lovers await love and punishment at the hands of the rulers of the citadel.Here they will be called on to please the single-minded Lady Berengaria, the decadent Magus, and th e wayward Princess Janna, each of whom will seek, through intimate and unusual means, to excite and prolong pleasure on demand. 
 
In the Citadel of Servitude, every avenue of sexual love must be tested, every strange pleasure explored, and every taboo broken.

Citadel Of Servitude

Spike Milligan

Murphy is Irish and poor. Even by the standards of the poorest of the poor in Ireland, Murphy is poor. 
Set sometime between the first and second World Wars, somewhere in Ireland and sometimes everywhere else besides - at one point Murphy is kidnapped by Irish aliens who take him in a spaceship to see St Patrick choose his National Lottery numbers - Murphy's story serves only to prove that the luck of the Irish is not bestowed upon all the sons of the nation. 
Unable to hold down his job on a building site he turns to robbery but is discovered trapped inside a suit of armour, almost drowns when he falls down a wishing well and catches a particularly revolting form of bronchitis whilst on religious retreat in a particularly revolting form of monastery.As you would expect, The Murphy is rude, irreverent and hugely funny. Classic, timeless Milligan.

The Murphy

Eric Sykes

Sparks and Miller, two reluctant Desert Rats, were trying desperately to have a quiet war, but despite all of their efforts, they somehow manage to become front-page heroes. No matter what they do they come up smelling of roses.

Smelling Of Roses

Louisa Francis

1850s Australia was a harsh place. The manners of courtship left a lot to be desired and gentlemen were few and far between. When farmer Nat Durrant declares Bridie Flannagan unsuitable to be to be his wife, the feisty Irish lass vows to make him regret his words. It was he who taught her how to take pleasure from men and it's him she wants to marry. 
 
However, the dishonest activities of Bridie's father, which brought her to the notice of Nat Durrant, also bring her into contact with powerful outlaw Lucas Martin. Taken hostage to aid Lucas's escape from the law, Bridie finds herself torn between lust and honor.

Hostage To Fantasy

Charles Bukowski

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. 
 
Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. 
 
Neeli Cherkovski was a close friend of Bukowski and is the author of Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (Random House, 1991)

Factotum

Chosen to live a life according to discipline and subservience, the young Justine is introduced to a succession of lovers - each one having favourite methods of taking pleasure from her willing body. Pleasure which is often found through the demands of pain and submission. 
 
Presided over by her strict guardian, Julia, we follow Justine's initiation into a world of obedience, dominated by the less-than-genteel ladies and gentleman of the Edwardian well-to-do. 
 
Aran Ashe is also known for his popular series Chronicles of Lidir: Sagas of Erotic Domination

Choosing Lovers For Justine

Lucinda Carrington

He is an arrogant, worldly entrepreneur who always gets what he wants. 
 
And what he wants is for Genevieve to spend the next ninety days submitting to his every desire... 
 
A dark, sensual tale of love and obsession.

The Ninety Days Of Genevieve

In Sydney, Australia, in the late 1870s, vivacious young Melanie marries 
a man old enough to be her grandfather. On a trip to England, their entire journey 
is cut short by his sudden death. She inherits his entire fortune unaware 
that her late husband has a grandson in England who is very much alive 
and is planning to contest the will. 
 
The louche and hedonistic Ric Lidell and his promiscuous half-sister travel 
to Australia in a bid to get their hands on some of the money. Ric conceals 
his identity from Melanie so he can use his satanic good looks to charm her. 
However, Melanie’s former lover, the rich South African Peter van Heuren, 
is unwilling to allow the highly-sexed young widow to be taken from 
him and concocts a plan to discredit her other suitors. 
Who will win Melanie’s heart and their way to her fortune?

Contest Of Wills

Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. 
 
The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office.

Post Office

Sylvie Ouellette

When Joanna is sent away on business to Japan, she anticipates nothing unusual. However, the timing couldn't be worse: she senses that someone at work is scheming behind her back and she cannot afford to be away from her office for fear of being upstaged. On a personal level, she's just beginning to get somewhere with Harry, a young and attractive solicitor she's been pursuing for some time. 
 
As soon as she arrives in Tokyo, her sensuality is put to the test. Enigmatic messages followed by singular encounters with strangers who seem to know her every desire. She is constantly aroused, but never entirely sated. As she gradually gives in to the magic of Japan - its people and its ways - she learns that she is becoming involved in a case of mistaken identity, erotic intrigue and mysterious seduction.

Jasmine Blossoms

Robin Hunter

A thoughtful and civilised man shouldn't have to make this choice. 
 
Until the day his wife and children are gunned down by 
terrorists, Simon Quarry knows what kind of man he is. 
 
When the politicians and diplomats look the other way, he 
becomes a hunter, guided by rage as much as by the desire for 
justice. Wanted by the terrorists he's targeting as well as by the 
police he’s evading, Quarry's grief for his murdered family 
becomes the engine of his revenge. 
A revenge that exacts a heavy price.

The Fourth Angel

Anya, the copper-curled heroine of The Chronicles of Lidir, has fled the Castle and the erotic slavery of the Taskmistress to seek refuge in the wilderness of the forests which surround the land of Lidir. Searching for her Prince, she finds instead the company of men-at-arms, who take her as their plaything and their slave before abandoning her to the care of the beautiful and wickedly sensual Aruline. 
 
The Forest of Bondage is the third volume of the four-part Chronicles of Lidir and continues the story begun in The Slave of Lidir and The Dungeons of Lidir.

The Forest Of Bondage

Tormunil can be an exceedingly harsh place for pretty young serving girls. Destined for a life of sexual slavery at the hands of merciless overlords, the chosen ones are taken to the Abbey - a place where strength is learnt through obedience to those who follow the path of the Twisted Cross. 
 
Taken into this strange world, the young and beautiful Sianon and Iroise are allowed few privileges. Tormented to the peaks of pleasure, but punished if they seek release, their only hope of escape lies with the handsome young traveller who has fallen for their charms. If he can enter the Abbey unnoticed, he may be able to rescue them. But if he is caught, he faces an inquisition beyond the realms of his darkest dreams.

The Handmaidens

Thomas Ligotti

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable - but there will be a terrible price to pay once his work is done. 
 
Destined to be a cult classic, this tale of corporate horror and demonic retribution will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been disgruntled at work.

My Work Is Not Yet Done

Ginny Leigh is caught in a stifling marriage but that doesn't stop her from enjoying the attentions of the virile young men in the neighborhood. 
 
Dan Berrigan is on the run. Previously a successful gold miner, he's forced to flee Melbourne when he's falsely accused of a serious crime. 
 
In Wattle Creek, the headstrong Ginny is making life-changing plans. When she puts in a bid to put an old staging inn - a watering hole for ruffians and gold prospectors - it's only a matter of time before Dan and Ginny meet. Their lust for each other is immediate, and when they find gold in the hills, their happiness and prosperity seem certain. But Ginny's salacious past is waiting to catch up with her. Can she outwit those determined to ruin her with scandal?

Gold Fever

Christine McGuire

Carla Norton

Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured, lively twenty-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to Southern California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and chilling crime. Cameron and Janice Hooker had literally made her their slave - and forced her to endure all of Cameron's twisted sexual perversions. 
 
During these seven years the Hookers had two children, entertained their friends at home and held down jobs - while Colleen was held captive in a coffin-like box under their bed. 
 
This is also the story of Christine McGuire, a young, inexperienced deputy district attorney who prosecuted Cameron Hooker for kidnapping and successfully explained why Colleen - who had numerous chances to escape - stayed captive for so many years.

Perfect Victim

1870s Australia. Dita Jones is engaged to Jonathon Grimshaw, the most eligible bachelor in Sydney's polite society. When the young couple are shipwrecked, Dita is thrown into a world where survival instincts and natural urges triumph over civilised manners. 
 
After they're rescued Dita cannot readjust to society life, and fellow castaway Matt Warrender cannot forget the woman who has inflamed his lust. However, an ironic twist of fate throws Dita into the path of wealthy stud farmer, Jas McGrady, who claims her for his bride. 
 
But Dita's new husband has a dark secret and his respectability is a cover for malevolence and hatred. In the rugged terrain of outback Australia, kidnapping, murder and revenge are played out with dramatic consequences - and the path of true love is destined not to run smoothly.

Desire Under Capricorn

George R. R. Washington

‘There was a bloodied knife on Allbran’s bed. Lady Gateway Barker knew what she had to do; what all the royals in Summerseve did when somebody tried to kill a member of their family: gather up a bunch of people and horses, and go from one place to another.’ 
 
This is the hilarious parody of the George R. R. Martin bestseller A Game of Thrones.

A Game of Groans

Cat Scarlett

Indigo, bookseller and CP-loving submissive, is obsessed with an antiquarian work of sadomasochism which eluded her father all his life. Caned, roped and shamed through the fleshpots of Europe, she will suffer any indignity to prevent Dervil Badon and his transsexual slave Natasha from getting their hands on her prize. But Dervil has no intention of allowing a mere submissive to own the legendary Book of Punishment.

The Book of Punishment

YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN 
 
Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.

Women

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

Bob Powers

The Just Make a Choice Adventure Series is narrated by 'You', i.e. every ambivalent thirty-something on the planet. You want to make choices and define your life but what if you get it wrong? What if you can't go back and do it over again? 
 
In You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero the pretty girl you went out with last night has been kidnapped and you're expected to save her. Trouble is, what if saving her from the kidnappers will look like some sort of commitment? 
 
Luckily, every chapter offers you a variety of chances to save the girl, or to give up and run away. By making choices about the fate of Julia, you will also find yourself re-evaluating your life in a way you've been trying to avoid since leaving school. It's your story. All you have to do is make a choice!

You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero

A 'Just Make a Choice!' Adventure

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. 
 
Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he's been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine - who's meant to be dead - but he's also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow - which may or may not be real.

Pulp

A Novel

Robin Baker

Presumed dead, a group of undergraduate students who go missing on a deserted Pacific island emerge one year later in two groups of ragged (and naked) survivors. All but one of the surviving women have conceived, and two students, plus their professor, are said to have died. 
 
In the glare of the world's media, every survivor sticks to the same unconvincing version of events. Piece-by-piece the narrator examines the evidence and conducts interviews with the survivors, to work out exactly what happened on the island during that year. Slowly, a disturbing picture emerges of feral humans driven by rivalry and sexual tension ...a 'Lord of the Flies' scenario for adults that suspiciously seems to test the dead professor's theory that by nature people are no different from apes in the wild.

Primal

A collection of extracts from a dozen stories by popular and established Nexus authors. This includes the story of a jaded young woman looking for excitement who becomes the slave of a cruel and dominant mistress.

New Erotica 3

An Anthology of Sensuous Writing

In this last of Spike's hilarious reinterpretations of the classic works of litarature, all the familiar faces of Robert Louis Stevenson's original version appear: Squire Trelawney, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver. But they are joined by Groucho Marx - and Long John's parrot plays a starring role. This rip-roaring adventure of the hunt for buried treasure unravels faster than Ben Gunn's pants, with plenty of laughs along the way. Rude and irreverent as ever, Spike's rendering of this classic tale is as chock-full of gems as Cap'n Flint's treasure chest.

Treasure Island According To Spike Milligan

Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion, Dr Watson, are working together once more to solve the mystery at Baskerville Hall. This time, however, there's something fishy about the hound, a woman cries in the night, Guiness and Newcastle Brown are taken intravenously and the Berlin Philharmonic keep running out of things to play...

The Hound Of The Baskervilles: According to Spike Milligan

Norman.Lucas

In this book crime reporter Norman Lucas, with help of forensic psychiatrist Dr Arthur Hyatt Williams, examines the cases of thirty sex killers including - 
* Pauline and Juliet, the teenage lesbians whose bizarre fantasies ended in murder 
* Peter Kuerton, the 'Monster of Dusseldorf' 
* Sylvestre Matuschka, the Hungarian multiple-killer who found sexual satisfaction amidst the carnage of train crashes 
* Gordon Cummins, the 'Ripper of the Blitz' 
* Neville Heath, the 'Casanova Killer'

The Sex Killers

David Southwell

There was once only one Mafia, now every country seems to have its own. Until fairly recently gangsters kept to their territories, but crime - like every other business - has been quick to take advantage of the global economy. Business, it seems, is good, with over $150 billion laundered each year in Europe alone. London crime firms sell Lebanese heroin provided by Turkish gangs, Colombian cocaine obtained from Nigeria, and crack produced by Jamaican Yardies. Arrangements with the Mafia, the Triads, the Yakuza, the Russian Mafiya and the South American cartels allow a tide of misery to enter the UK through the back door. 
 
Dirty Cash looks at modern organised crime, from the street gangs whose daily business includes drug dealing, prostitution and robbery, through to the gigantic organisations behind it all. The vicious war between crime and law enforcement is raging all around us, and it's a war we can't afford to lose.

Dirty Cash

Billy Childish

Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s, Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse. Stumbling onward into adolescence he lays bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men, This striking first novel, or 'creative confession', is at turns hilarious and harrowing. Laced with lindes of unforgettable poetry it is that rare and wonderful thing - a book which had to be written.

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