A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy and is known as @agatharoza on Wattpad.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

A.E. Waite

A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children. Angelica is also the author of Hunt A Killer, a PERFECT SCORE novel, under the pen name A.M. Ellis, which she wrote as an IP for Scholastic in the US.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

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Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

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Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready--a global organizational transformation and coaching practice--that helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include Johnson &amp; Johnson, Microsoft, Lloyds Bank, Citibank, Boeing, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Dropbox, and charity: water. 
 
He is also the founder of Murmur--a SaaS startup that helps teams scale culture through the magic of working agreements. The Murmur platform will allow every team on the planet to define and share their ways of working. 
 
Dignan is the author of Brave New Work (2019) and Game Frame (2011), co-host of the Brave New Work podcast, and a friend to misfit toys.

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Aaron Edwards is a senior lecturer in defence and international affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, specialising in terrorism and counter-insurgency. He is the author and editor of several books, including Defending the Realm: The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars Since 1945, and has lectured all over the world on aspects of national and international security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Aaron Robertson is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His translation of Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Rina Kent

From New York Times Bestseller and BookTok sensation Rina Kent comes the first generation of the thrilling Legacy of Gods series. 
 
The princess isn’t supposed to dethrone the king. 
 
Elsa 
He told me he’d destroy me - and he did. 
I might have lost the battle, but the war is far from over. 
They say it takes just one move to dethrone a king. 
No one warned me he’d drag me down with him on the way. 
 
Aiden 
If Steel’s little princess wants a war, then she’ll get one. 
There’s only one rule: follow mine - or none at all. 
So go ahead, sweetheart. 
Show me what you’ve got. 
 
 
Readers cannot get enough of the Royal Elite series: 
'This book had me feeling so many things' *****reader review 
'I would recommend this book a thousand times!!!' *****reader review 
'Rina Kent's universe is consuming me' *****reader review 
'Can't stop thinking about this' *****reader review 
'A rollercoaster of a read' *****reader review 
'Beautifully heartbreaking' *****reader review

Steel Princess

From New York Times Bestseller and BookTok sensation Rina Kent comes the first generation of the thrilling Legacy of Gods series. 
 
The villain isn’t supposed to be king. 
 
I have a simple plan. 
Finish Royal Elite School and secure a place at my dream university. 
But one glance from the school’s king blows my strategy up in smoke. 
One glance and he suffocates my air. 
Because everything about Aiden King is black. 
Black mind. Black heart. Black soul. 
I should’ve remained quiet and endured the time I have left. 
I didn’t. 
I made the irrevocable mistake of provoking the king on his throne. 
And now, I’ll pay the price. 
Being hated by Aiden King is dangerous. 
But being wanted by him is lethal. 
 
Readers cannot get enough of the Royal Elite series: 
'This book had me feeling so many things' *****reader review 
'I would recommend this book a thousand times!!!' *****reader review 
'Rina Kent's universe is consuming me' *****reader review 
'Can't stop thinking about this' *****reader review 
'A rollercoaster of a read' *****reader review 
'Beautifully heartbreaking' *****reader review

Deviant King

Paisley Hope

Aiden Foxx runs the Disciples of Sin motorcycle club with strict control and zero tolerance for weakness. A former Navy SEAL turned outlaw king, he lives by one rule - trust no one. 
 
Then Mia Tyler walks into his bar. Platinum hair, ocean eyes, and a body that tempts him to break every vow he’s ever made. 
 
Foxx knows Mia is dangerous. He knows she’s hiding something. But when suspicion collides with desire, resisting her becomes impossible, even after he discovers she’s a rival with her own deadly agenda. 
 
When war ignites, Foxx must decide: is she the enemy who could destroy him. . .or the only woman who might save him?

Foxx

The third in a dark hockey romance series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Legacy of Gods series.

Tempting Venom

E L James

More than 100 million copies sold worlwide, this is a series that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 
 
Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a US publishing house. 
 
But desire for Grey still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, she cannot resist. Soon she is learning more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding lover than she ever thought possible. 
 
While Grey wrestles with his inner demons, Ana must make the most important decision of her life. 
 
And it's a decision she can only make on her own… 
 
Praise for Fifty Shades of Grey 
 
‘Brought a whole new meaning to raunchy’ star reader review 
‘I literally could not put it down’ 5-star reader review 
‘Addictive, escapist and a naughtily good read’ 5-star reader review 
‘It's official - I'm addicted and obsessed with Christian Grey!’ 5-star reader review 
'The cream of the crop' Independent 
'Not only reviving the book market, but also reader’s marriages' Daily Mail 
'A phenomenon' Telegraph 
'Revolutionised the genre of erotic fiction' Observer

Fifty Shades Darker

OVER 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 
 
When Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably. 
 
Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy, and being together poses challenges neither of them had anticipated. Ana must learn to share Grey's opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity or independence; and Grey must overcome his compulsion to control and lay to rest the horrors that still haunt him. 
 
Now, finally together, they have love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of infinite possibilities. 
 
But just when it seems that they really do have it all, tragedy and fate combine to make Ana's worst nightmares come true. . . 
 
Praise for Fifty Shades of Grey 
 
‘Brought a whole new meaning to raunchy’ 5-star reader review 
‘I literally could not put it down’ 5-star reader review 
‘Addictive, escapist and a naughtily good read’ 5-star reader review 
‘It's official - I'm addicted and obsessed with Christian Grey!’ 5-star reader review 
'The cream of the crop' Independent 
'Not only reviving the book market, but also reader’s marriages' Daily Mail 
'A phenomenon' Telegraph 
'Revolutionised the genre of erotic fiction' Observer

Fifty Shades Freed

MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 
 
When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. 
 
Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. 
 
As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Christian keeps hidden away from public view. . . 
 
Praise for Fifty Shades of Grey: 
 
'Addicted and obsessed' *****reader review 
'Best book ever' *****reader review 
'Liberated, addicted, possessed and obsessed' *****reader review 
'The cream of the crop' Independent 
'Not only reviving the book market, but also reader’s marriages' Daily Mail 
'A phenomenon' Telegraph 
'Revolutionised the genre of erotic fiction' Observer

Fifty Shades of Grey

Catherine Cowles

Catherine Cowles Book 2

Chloe Liese

Two best friends. One unexpected summer. A plot twist they didn’t see coming. . . 
 
Bookseller Thea never thought she'd meet her best friend through her ex-husband. But that’s exactly how she ended up with Alex – a world renown chef and single dad who charms everyone he meets. They vowed that romance would never ruin their friendship, and two years later, they are inseparable. 
 
So much so, that when their exes invite them both on a “family” beach vacation – Alex’s daughter and Thea’s dog in tow – they reluctantly agree. 
 
Theirs didn't start as a love story. But as blistering beach days melt into slow golden evenings, Thea and Alex find themselves confronting feelings that might just lead them to the last place they ever expected: a happy ending.

Happy Ending

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a scorching standalone dark MM romance set in the world of Legacy of Gods. 
 
I’m hunting a monster. 
 
The first time I met Yulian Dimitriev, it was hate at first sight. 
He is brash, chaotic, a violence-junkie. 
In short, everything I disregard. 
As heirs to two notorious mafia organizations, we’re forced to spend time with one another. 
The more I learn about Yulian, the deeper my loathing seeps. 
Until I truly see the person within, and something forbidden sparks between us. 
When tragedy strikes, our co-existence is cut short. 
Forcing Yulian and I back to our parallel worlds that should never cross. 
But they do. 
And, once again, I’m dragged into the orbit of a man I shouldn’t want. 
Two men can’t be together in our world. 
But Yulian blurs every limit I thought existed. Soon, everything is in jeopardy. 
Our hearts included. 
Kiss the Villain is a dark MM romance. Please check the author's note for content warnings before diving in. While this book can be enjoyed as a standalone, diving into the Legacy of Gods series will give you a deeper connection to the characters.

Hunt the Villain

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