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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Jean Aveline

Anton and Magdalena are brother and sister, separated at birth but reunited as teenagers. The forbidden nature of their love for each other only serves to intensify their passion for experimentation - for the most perverse sexual games. Working as dancers, they fall under the spell of the manipulative Sophie and the masterful Dieter, both of whom secretly foster the darkest plans for the couple.

Exposing Louisa

Doug Crandell

Brad Orville has always wanted hair - lots of it, preferably thick and wavy - but he started going bald in the seventh grade. What makes it worse is the fact that his smart and charming brother Compton has a full head of gorgeous locks, still going strong as they enter middle age. But then Compton suffers a traumatic brain injury and Brad must take care of him 24/7. Yet Compton - even in his addled state - seems to somehow thrive, marrying the woman of his dreams, Peaches, while Brad turns to booze, Internet dating, and a toupee for solace. Happiness however might be a lot closer than Brad ever imagined, and it doesn't even involve fake hair.

Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed

Robert Black

Three men are committed to Her Majesty's Prison Cairncrow on the same day. There's Paul - a young, tough inner-city robber. Simon, by contrast, is gentle, feminine, and obviously gay, and the third, John, is an ex-vicar. The prison is a corrupt and cruel institution, run by sadistic officers and bullying hard men. It's also a sexual minefield - the old-timers prey on the newcomers and the guards prey on everybody. Will the three new inmates find their niche in this brutish new environment?

Hard Time

Morgana Baron

As Charlotte travels to Europe to claim her share of her father's legacy, her thoughts turn inevitably to Veronica, her sensual, sadistic stepsister, whom she will be seeing again for the first time in years. Charlotte's fear and hatred of Veronica is tempered by insurmountable lust, and by her taste for submission, bondage and masochism. 
 
The sisters' destination is Steinreich, a tiny self governing principality which, for centuries, has been a haven for some very unlikely refugees. Its inhabitants seem happy to live according to its bizarre laws and customs and Veronica, too, seems quite at home there. 
Charlotte, however, dreads to think of what she will be forced to endure for the next month, in order to qualify for her inheritance.

Rue Marquis De Sade

Jack Stevens

The Fellowship of Iron. What is it? Who is it? Why do the men involved with it end up dead? 
 
Mike's a professional bodybuilder. Richard's an up-and-coming journalist. They're very much in love. But their world is torn apart and their lives put in danger when Mike's former lover and bodybuilding mentor is found dead, and they learn for the first time of the Fellowship of Iron. Suddenly the two young men are caught up in a vicious game of revenge, lies and betrayal that threatens to destroy their relationship as they are plunged into a world of dangerous men, sweat and pumping muscles.

Fellowship of Iron

Helena Ravenscroft

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

Lisette Ashton

Beyond the bright lights of the fairground there is a mysterious world, hidden from the visiting crowds. Operating outside of the restrictions of the towns they entertain, the fairground's owners insist on indulging their lewd and base appetites whenever and however they please. Georgia and Holly are reluctant recruits to the fairground and they soon diescover the pains and pleasures of this perverse regime, as both women endure a painful lesson in its strict rules. It's a lesson they'll never forget.

Fairground Attractions

Yolanda Celbridge

Innocent orphan Sophia joins the House of Rodings, a maid's training school deep in the Essex countryside, where she meets a cast of submissive and dominant females, all adoring or envious of her voluptuous bottom. Sophia thrives amidst the complex ranks, rules and punishments of her House's heirarchy until, saved once from poverty and penury, she willingly embraces degradation of a different sort.

The Correction Of An Essex Maid

Tania d'Alanis

When Darline Pomeroy engages the submisive young Patrick to be her boy-maid, he is made to serve her in many humiliating ways. He must wear women's clothes, paint Darline's nails and perform the most demeaning household chores; if he errs in the slightest he is whipped or caned. 
 
Darline shows off her new boy-maid to a number of her dominatrix freinds, who take great pleasure in teaching him the rules of good and ladylike comportment. But can Patrick ever hope to meet the exacting standards of these cruel mistresses?

Darline Dominant

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

Maria Del Rey

Behind a facade of professional respectability, a certain group of wealthy individuals is playing some very adult games.  Games of master and servant where willing submissive suffer degradation and punishment in the most refined surroundings.  Called on to find Anita Duncan, by a man who says he's her boyfriend, private investigator Pamela goes undercover to find out why Anita has disappeared.  Drawn into a underworld of dark desire, she cannot believe what she's witnessing - and enjoying.

Underworld

Pan Pantziarka

Detective Chief Inspector Anthony Vallance and television journalist Sarah Fairfax meet for the first time in this novel. Vallance is investigating a death at the country mansion where Sarah is attending a course. Although they form low opinions of one another, they are drawn to each other.

A Moment Of Madness

Amanda Ware

Caroline West is facing up to the absence of her master, Liam, as he battles to save himself from bankruptcy. When the cruel and manipulative Clive offers her a means of helping him, on the condition that she becomes his slave for three weeks, she does not hesitate and is soon signed over to him. 
 
Falling into Clive's trap, Caroline undergoes all manner of humiliations before being handed over to her former mistress - Lynne - for even more severe training. Unbeknownst to Clive, Lynne is a friend of Liam and is convinced that Caroline is betraying her master. Poor Caroline now has to face harsh treatment at the hands of Lynne; treatment which she finds is more and more to her liking.

Bound to Serve

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

Innocent Roger is embroiled in a world of lustful secrets. His voyeuristic host and his wife, their daughter and their maid all conspire to humiliate him by imposing severe corporal punishment. However his virility satisfies the County Ladies and earns their respect becoming the true mark of an English Gentleman.

Training of an English Gentleman

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

Peter Slater

A young Spanish cello player, Ramon, journeys to the castle of master cellist Ernesto Cavello in the hope of private tuition from the great musician. Ramon's own music is technically perfect, but his playing lacks a certain essence - and so, Maestro Cavello arranges for Ramon to undergo a number of sexual trials. 
 
This is a modern day Gothic novel full of dark sensuality and eroticism - and distinctly Catholic decadence.

Maestro

Saskia Hope

He stood tall and handsome in his leathers, his eyes raking her nakedness and sex-soaked body. Fee felt a thrill of danger. The pirate was a superb and ferocious lover. And an altogether wild and unpredictable man. 
 
The pirates live by rules Fee Cambridge has never heard of. Her home is an upper level, deluxe pleasuredome of technologically advanced comfort. Theirs is the harsh outer reaches of the decaying city, where lawlessness abounds in a sexual underworld. Bored with predictable husband and pampered lifestyle, Fee is determined to sample life and lust on the wild side of town. Needy for the rugged sexuality of urban outlaws, she leads a double life of piracy and privilege. Will her taste for fevered adventure and shady activities get her too deep into danger?

Outlaw Lover

When Sloaney Prudence Riding has a sudden fall from grace as her trust fund runs out, she decides to get a job - and what could be more worthy than becoming a nurse? The training at Cloughton Wyke Hydro is rather more severe than she is prepared for, however, involving as it does strict discipline, tight rubber uniforms and an education in the application of bizarre erotic treatments. Nurse Riding's further instruction in the sophisticated use of medical restraints is interrupted by a hunch that her long-lost twin sister is nearby. Can Prudence ever hope to find her?

The Discipline Of Nurse Riding

In this new collection of erotic tales, ten women, each with their own wild fantasies and dark desires, reveal their most provocative confessions . Nothing is out of bounds and passion is pushed to its very limit. 
 
Hard Hat - a sexy builder turns out to be the tall, dark and silent type 
Model Misbehaviour - supermodel Anna Lamb has a memorable catwalk experience, thanks to her rockstar boyfriend Joey and some very special lingerie 
Toy Story - two housemates find a very special kind of toy in the house 
Bossy - power games in the office show the boss who's really in charge 
Car-ma Sutra - fantasies about sex in public lead a young married couple to an unexpected midnight encounter 
Steaming - a stressed businesswoman gets the gold-standard treatment at a very special sauna 
A Working Girl - hard up for cash, a young magazine assistant decides to become an escort, but first she has to attend a private interview... 
Ash - Nina picks up skinny indie kid Ash at a gig, but there's more to him than meets the eye 
All Tomorrow's Parties - when artist David meets dancer Charlie, and discovers she is a virgin, he furthers her education in more ways than one 
Waterbaby - a young woman discovers that keeping it all in can lead to new heights of ecstasy. 
 
With private indulgences stripped bare for all to see, Quickies: More True Confessions ensures that nothing remains a secret any more.

Quickies: More True Confessions

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

Suzanne Blaylock

Drawn together by an accident of time and circumstance, a disparate group of women all hide behind masks of cool deception, but when their paths cross, the ice soon melts in a furnace of passion. This erotic novel explores the myth of the female icon and the truth is not often what it seems.

Ice Queen

Daphne Adams

Anna has a blast making the rounds of North London dyke pubs with her best friend Joan, but it's no cure for the rut she's fallen into with her girlfriend, Vicky. Still, life gets more exciting when she meets the enigmatic Marlene: a tall dark German who wears silk suits and smokes exotic cigarettes. She's a Dietrich-dream-come-true, even though she's the opposite of Anna's usual type. 
 
But, as Anna gingerly extracts herself from her five-year relationship with Vicky, she's not even sure if she knows what her type is anymore. And when Anna finds out that Marlene moonlights as a lesbian dominatrix, the situation can only become more intriguing. 
 
A funny, bittersweet and very sexy tale about what really happens when opposites attract.

I Married Madam

Deep in the Scottish Highlands a curious training academy teaches young women how to pound a beat.  Young miscreant Jean Welsh hopes to quell her submissive, promiscuous sexuality by donning their strict uniform.  Instruction in the use of restraints, training in the art of flagellation and practical experience in the special use of truncheons characterise the Glenlassie approach to police training - but the recruits are solely being siphoned off by a nearby pony-girl training establishment and a unique medical clinic.

Police Ladies

Rupert Thomas

Ben is 18 and tired of living in the suburbs. As there's little sexual adventure to be found there, he decides to run away from both A-levels and his comfortable home - to a new life in London. When the friend he'd hoped to stay with is away, Ben is forced to spend the night on the streets, cold and afraid. He's befriended by Lee, a homeless Scottish lad who offers him a friendly ear and the comfort of his sleeping bag. 
 
Both young men become involved in a web of prostitution and sexual conspiracies, but Ben alone is taken hostage by a mysterious client and held ransom. Lee takes it upon himself to unravel the mystery, help Ben escape and uncover the identity of the kidnapper. 
 
By the author of the bestselling Customs of the Country.

Street Life

Sarah Veitch

When Leanne Dell inherits a former boardinig school, now an advertising agency, part of the deal is that she has to share it with an unknown partner. Arriving at the grand house, she finds herself a voyeur to a scene of bizarre chastisement. Her co-partner, Adam Howard, is administering a sound spanking to his pretty young assistant. In the weeks that follow, Leanne learns some lessons of her own; that her handsome new partner in business is a devotee of corporal punishment, and that arousal and shame are two sides of the same coin.

Lingering Lessons

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

G C Scott

Sensing a powerful, animal drive within Tom that echoes her own, Beth decides to make Tom's initiation into bondage a swift one. His hesitant first steps soon quicken as he is drawn further into her dark and intimate web. Just when their relationship seems to have reached its peak, Beth introduces him to Harriet - and the games suddenly become even kinkier and more convoluted...

His Mistress's Voice

Scott

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

Della Shannon

Late evening, New York City: young American adventuress Faith Ballard makes a reckless and illegal parachute jump off a tall building. Evading the police, she hides in the flat of a very sexy woman. Meanwhile in London, gay but reserved clerk Joyce Wilde awakens and pleasures herself in the afterwaves of a bizarre erotic dream. 
 
What links Faith and Joyce is a tontine: an agreement and legacy set up by the late Constance Wilde - Faith's lover, Joyce's mother - and one which takes both women, along with three others, to the savannahs and jungles of Africa. There, the bonds and obligations of the tontine are played out against a background of danger, intrigue and the raunchiest sex imaginable.

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