Alan Curtis

Alan Cutler

Alan Davies

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Duff

Alan Durant is the author of books for a wide age-range, from picture books such as Burger Boy, Angus Rides the Goods Train and Always and Forever to top-end teenage thrillers (Blood, Flesh and Bones). Having worked as a copywriter at Walker Books, he is now a full-time author. 
 
He's married, with three children and lives in Brighton. He does a lot of school visits throughout the UK and abroad and also runs writing workshops.

Alan Durant

Alan Edge

Alan Ereira

Alan Garner

Alan Gilbey

Alan Gordon is the founder and director of the Pain Psychology Center in California, a leading treatment facility for chronic pain sufferers that sees over 1,500 patients from around the world every year. Debilitated by chronic pain throughout his body for several years and frustrated by the lack of effective treatment, Gordon developed the ground-breaking Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) – a highly effective system of psychological techniques that rewire the brain’s neural circuits to turn off “stuck” pain signals. He is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California.

Alan Gordon

Alan Grant

Born in 1926 in New York City, Alan Greenspan worked as a Juilliard-trained professional musician before studying Economics at New York University, where he earned his PhD. From 1974 to 1977, he served as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Gerald Ford. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of the bestselling The Age of Turbulence and The Map and the Territory 2.0.

Alan Greenspan

Alan H Guth

Alan Hansen was one of Britain's most respected football players and is now one of the most outspoken and popular football pundits.

Alan Hansen

Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright who has written several plays for BBC radio including The Lighthouse and The Gold Farmer. His play A Good Night Out in the Valleys launched the new National Theatre Wales in 2010 and he has also been awarded a prestigious Creative Wales Award.

Alan Harris

Alan Hill

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.

Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hooper is a founder and Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, 
University of Exeter, and is also a visiting Professor at Bristol Business 
School. He has been a CEO in the public sector and now consults widely on 
senior management development and the management of change.

Alan Hooper

Alan Isler was born in England in 1934, emigrating to the US at the age of 18. After serving in the US army he went on to study literature at Columbia University, and taught for much of his adult life. Isler was the author of several novels including Kraven Images, The Bacon Fancier, Clerical Errors, The Living Proof and The Prince of West End Avenue, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994. Isler died in 2010. 
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Alan Isler

Alan J Wilson

Alan Jenkins

Alan Johnson was born in May 1950. He is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Johnson was the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle until his retirement from politics in 2017. 
 His first book, This Boy, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize in 2013. His second, Please Mister Postman, won the National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year in 2014. His third, The Long and Winding Road, was published in 2016 and won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir.

Alan Johnson

Alan Jones

Belfast-born twins Alan and Gary Keery love cereal. As creators of The Cereal Killer Café, the trendiest new eatery on Brick Lane, they have turned that love of the nation’s favourite comfort food into a thriving business. The opening of their first café saw extraordinary interest with press and broadcast coverage from all over the world. The café was voted best new restaurant by Hot Dinners in 2014. A second café is opening in summer 2015.

Alan Keery

Alan Langford

Alan Lerner

Alan MacDonald

Alan Macdonald

Alan Macfarlane

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Cat Scarlett

Carter, manager of an exclusive all-female pool tour, discovers Roz in a backstreet pool hall. When he sees her bending to take her shot, he can't resist putting his marker down to play her. But when he signs Roz up to his tour, she discovers that the dominant Carter has a taste for the perverse, enforces a strict training regime, and that an exhibition match is just that.

The Player

Patty Glenn

In order to win back her inheritance, bad girl Martha will agree to anything to help her stay on the straight and narrow - including accepting a dangerous job and a marriage proposal from a dark strapping stranger with almond-shaped eyes and a taste for the nasty. She's been living on the wrong side of the tracks, slumming it with Hollywood hustlers, but now it's reckoning time. 
 
Private investigator Joaquin Lee reckons he can help Martha to get what she wants, and when the sexual attraction is this intense, she's not about to argue. But is Lee really as honest as he makes out? Or is he looking to pocket a cut of her money for himself. 
 
A dynamic battle of wills between two very stubborn, very sexy characters.

The Reluctant Princess

Mathilde Madden

The first in a werewolf paranormal trilogy from the acclaimed author, Mathilde Madden 
 
Eleven years ago a powerful ancient werewolf ripped Iris's life apart. One full moon night it attacked the two people she loved most in the world, killing her twin brother and leaving her boyfriend Alfie changed forever. Iris and Alfie vowed revenge on the Beast, but when Alfie began to show a twisted loyalty to the creature who had made him, Iris lost him too. 
 
Now, Alfie is back in Oxford where Iris - still haunted by her dead brother - is heading up the Vix, a shadowy organisation dedicated to killing his kind. But Alfie needs Iris's help or what the Beast did to him that night may yet prove fatal. His only hope of keeping his deadly beast under control is the Silver Collar - an ancient artefact currently owned by the Vix. But Iris isn't prepared to help Alfie secure it until he agrees to defy the rules of his kind and help her avenge Matthew's death.

The Silver Collar

Yolanda Celbridge

Coming to sexual submission is not to be rushed. You start at the beginning, and develop at your own pace, often understanding what appears on your canvas only after it's there. Sometimes Trudi Fahr, a twenty-two year old nubile from America's West Coast, lies awake at night, awed by her own desire to be punished, humiliated, teased and shamed. To punish her tormentors, and herself too, she wants them to hurt her even more. Sometimes it's the wildest who most want to be tamed.

The Taming Of Trudi

Sarah Veitch

Charlotte was looking forward to her holiday in the sun. Two months on a remote tropical island with her rich, handsome boyfriend: who could ask for more? She is more than a little surpised, then, when she arrives to find that the island isin fact a vast correction centre - the Training Grounds - presided over by a sworthy and handsome figure known only as the Master. But greater shocks are in store, not least Charlotte's discovery that she is there not as a guest, but as a slave ...

The Training Grounds

Sachi

James Burke's mastery of the Tao of sex made him a prince of the Excalibur, a Tokyo host club that catered to wealthy women with particular tastes. He brought intense pleasure through the universal 
force of chi. His world was sublime until a secret society learned of his skill and sought the dark side of his Tao: the power to inflict pain. They mean to have it or destroy him.

Tokyo Bound

Tabitha Flyte

Sally's in a pickle. Her conservative bosses won't let her do anything she wants at work and her long-term boyfriend Will has given her the push. Then she meets the beautiful young Marcus outside a local college. Only problem is he's a little too young. She's thirty-something and he's a teenager. 
 
But Sally's a spirited young woman and is determined to shake things up at the office and in her personal life. When Mr Finnegan - her lecherous old-fashioned boss - discovers Sally's sexual peccadilloes, he's determined to get some action of his own. He involves the equally perverse Miss Penny Feather and it isn't too long before everyone's enjoying naughty - and very bizarre - shenanigans.

Tongue In Cheek

Zoe Le Verdier

Anna Caplin is an ambitious TV reporter. When her boss offers her a chance to infiltrate a secret medical institute, she grabs the opportunity, not realising the institute specialises in sexual experimentation. It isn't long before Anna finds herself involved in some highly unorthodox situations with Doctor Galloway - the institute's director. 
 
The she meets the attractive but melancholy Frank, Doctor Galloway's son, who knows the secrets on the institute. Will Anna discover them before her taste for games of submission and control grows into an insatiable hunger?

Undercover Secrets

Alaine Hood

Hailey is an up-and-coming biologist, and sexual evolution is her passion. Natural selection works best, she believes, when a woman has lots of options. Between her studies and her job as a bike messenger, Hailey hasn't had time to do much more than be a voyeur watching the nocturnal habits of her own species in the city's nightclubs. 
 
Everything changes when she meets Noah and Cade, two very sexy men who will overturn her views on human mating games. But Hailey knows a lot more about animal passion than they realise and, before they know it, she's the one doing the hunting - with Cade, Noah, and a rugged big cat handler named Rick as her prey.

Unnatural Selection

Wendy Swanscombe

A beautiful dark-haired lesbian lawyer from central Europe travels to the legend-haunted realm of Transmarynia, where she is to help a mysterious blonde stranger prepare for residence in Bucharest. What she discovers is beyond her most erotic nightmares. Bram Stoker's tale of obsession and desire is turned on its head and comes up dripping with lust. Read it and stiffen with much more than fright.

Vamp

Suki is 21-years-old and drifting. A waitress in a Midlands transport cafe, she lives alone in a motor-home and sleeps with women. Haunted by the memory of her dead girlfriend, a bisexual American with SM tastes, she takes to the road, heading north to where they first met. Whilst there Suki is drawn back into the seductive decadence of her old life, to experience what she's secretly been missing for years.

What Suki Wants

Holly Graham

Young, well-groomed and spoilt, Olivia Standish is the epitome of a trophy wife. Her husband is a successful politician, and Olivia is confident that she can look forward to a life of luxury and prestige. Then she finds a video of her husband cavorting with call girls and engaging in some very bizarre behaviour, and suddenly her future looks uncertain. Realising that her marriage is one of convenience and not love, she vows to take her revenge. Her goal is to have her errant husband on his knees and begging for mercy.

A Scandalous Affair

Esme Ombreux

Fetishism and initiation are the central themes of this story in which Eloise Highfield embarks on a series of extreme experiments with a painter of erotic subjects. Meanwhile her charge, Anne, is keeping a diary of what goes on.

An Education in the Private House

Fleur Reynolds

Sapphire Western is a beautiful young investment broker whose best friend Zinnia has recently married Jethro Clarke, one of the wealthiest and most lecherous men in Texas. Sapphire and Zinnia have a mutual friend, Aurelie de Bouys, whose life is no longer her own now that her scheming cousin Jeanine controls her desires and money and just about everything else in their socialite world. In an atomosphere where being decadent is commonplace Jeanine and her hedonistic associates still manage to shock and surprise. Will Sapphire remain aloof, or will she be drawn into Jeanine's  games of depravity and deception?

Bonded

Arabella Knight

Lustful desires provoke the girls of these tales to shamefully perverted pleasures. The pest, the predator, the pilferer - each with appetites for dark delights. Tempted, they feast upon forbidden fruit, but they cannot escape paying painful penalties. All must submit to discipline as they are sternly brought to heel.

Brought To Heel

Emma Donaldson

Saucy story of clandestine goings-on aboard a luxury liner. 
 
Young beautician Laura works in the exclusive Shangri-La beauty salon aboard the cruise ship Jannina. Although she has a super-sensual time with her boyfriend, Steve - who works the ship's bar - there are plenty of nice young men in uniform who want a piece of her action. Laura's cabin mate is the shy, eighteen-year-old Fiona, whose sexuality is a mystery, especially as there are rumours that the stern Elinor Brookes, the matriarch of the beauty salon, has been seen doing some very curious things with the young Fiona.

Cabin Fever

Astrid Fox

Young filmmaker Tesser Roget is a girl who takes no prisoners. An American slacker chick, living in London, she dresses in funky clothes, looks hot and knows it. She likes to have sex, and she frequently does. Life on the fringe is very good indeed, but when she meets artist Jamie Desmond things take a sudden swerve into weird. Her outsider lifestyle is threatened by disgruntled ex-lovers, big-business corruption and, worst of all, cinematic sabotage of her precious film. With all this on the go, and a libido that craves regular attention, Tesser is a very busy girl.

Cheap Trick

Yolanda Celbridge takes her brand of robust fetish fiction to the USA once more as nineteen-year-old Cherri discovers her ability to submit to even the most arduous punishments, and to suffer the most extreme indignities until, try as she might, the girl can't live without them. And in the wide-open spaces of North America, she doesn't have to worry about what the neighbours will think. A novel of craven submission and lustful hijinx from the author of The Taming of Trudi.

Cherri Chastised

Mercedes Kelly

Floradora is a lion tamer in a Mexican circus. She inhabits a curious and colourful world of trapeze artists, snake charmers and hypnotists. When her father dies owing a lot of money to the circus owner, the dastardly Lorenzo, Flora's life is about to change. 
 
Lorenzo and his accomplice - the perverse Salome - share a powerful sexual hunger, a taste for bizarre adult fun and an interest in Flora. They soon lure her into their games of decadence. When Flora meets a charming young man who wants to marry her, the evil pair start scheming against it. They want to keep Flora for their own pleasure. Can she escape? Will she even want to?

Circo Erotica

Crystalle Valentino

Rosie Cooper, an impoverished, self-employed landscape gardner, is booted off her job by an over-fussy client. Although it's unprofessional, she decides to visit the woman a few days later, to contest her dismissal. She arrives to find a rugged, male replacement behaving even more unprofessionally by having sex with the client in the back garden! It seems she's got competition - a rival firm of fit, good-looking blokes are targetting single well-off women in West London. When the competition's this unfair, Rosie will need all her sexual skills to level the playing field. 
 
Black Lace erotic fiction - the best adult stories and erotic books for women

Coming Up Roses

Aishling Morgan

This novel traces the history of the innocent but wilful Octavia Challacombe as she is corrupted by the wicked Maray family. Along with Polly Endicott and a group of other buxom Devon girls, she is cajoled and teased into providing increasingly perverse services for the Squire and his family. 
Part of the Cream Series. Other titles include Peaches and Cream and Cream Tease.

Devon Cream

Juliet Hastings

Priss and Diva, 30-something best friends, are taking the holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand. After a spell of relaxation they approach the week-long `mountain trek' brimming with energy and dangerously horny. It's Priss' idea to see if, in the course of one week, they can involve every member of the 12-person trek in their raunchy adventures.  Some are pushovers but others present more of a challenge!

Down Under

Robert Black

The year is 1885, and Dr Reynard, a brilliant young surgeon, is desperate for excitement. A chance meeting with Lord Spearman opens up a whole new world of sexual adventure. Swept along, Dy Reynard finds blackmail threatening to destroy him, and an even darker menace in the fog-bound streets.

Dr.Reynard's Experiment

Robyn Russell

When graphic artist Tanya Trevino creates a sexy alterego in the form of Katrina Cortez, private investigator, she begins to wish her own life were more like that of her comic-strip character's. Gorgeous Stephen Sinclair, who works with Tanya, is her kind of man. Trouble is, she has just moved in with her high-flying bank manager boyfriend who expects her to fit in with his precise routine and play the part of the executive girlfriend. 
 
In her quest to gain Stephen's attention Tanya must transcend the personality traits that prevent her from obeying her desires. She must take risks. She must become more like Katrine Cortez - voluptous wild woman!

Drawn Together

Young academic Catherine de la Tour is not content. Her lover James is a thousand miles away and she needs to get a grip on her work, her man and her life. When she accepts a post as artist-in residence at Cambridge she thinks it'll be just the break she needs. But once there she soon gets involved in the world sex lives of both her male and female students.

Dreaming Spires

Savannah Smythe

When Rachel's husband abandons both her and his taxi-cab business and flees the country, she is left to pick up the pieces. As Rachel transforms the business into an exclusive chauffeur service for discerning gentlemen, she also has to manage an increasingly complicated love life with two very different men. 
 
What she does not know is that one of them, the sophisticated and very married Adrian, is a jewel thief, while her other new lover has exotic tastes in sexual experimentation. As Rachel is lured into an underworld lifestyle of champagne, diamonds and lustful indulgence, she finds a familiar face is involved in some very shady activity!

Driven By Desire

Sophie wants money, big money. After twelve years working as a croupier on the Carribean cruise ships, she has devised a scheme that is her ticket to Freedomsville. But she can't do it alone; she has to encourage her colleagues to help her, and some of them are a little reluctant. Persuasion turns to seduction, which turns to blackmail. Then there are prying passengers, tropical storms and an angry, jealous girlfriend to contend with. And what happens when the lascivious Captain decides to stick his oar in, too?

Full Steam Ahead

Lyn Wood

Fiona finds herself on a word-games holiday with her best pal. At first it seem like a boring way to spend the week away. Then she realises she's on a treasure hunt with a difference. Solving the riddle embroils her in a series of sexy situations as the clues get ever more outrageous. It's a race to the finish with people cheating, partnerships changing and lots of the competitors getting off with each other. Fiona needs an analytical mind and an encyclopaedic knowledge of sex to be in with a chance of winning. And she can't do it all on her own.

Game For Anything

Yvonne Marshall

Lucy has been submissive for as long as she can remember, but she knows that she'll have to change if her marriage to tycoon Don Langford is to survive. A former lover can help her, but on one condition - that she reports to a Japanese brothel for training. When she returns to confront Don, it is Lucy who gives the orders.

Grooming Lucy

Wayward wives, female voyeurs, and women who have a weakness for kinky clothes and men much younger than them. They're all here, in this collection of sexy stories by one of Black Lace's best-liked authors. 
 
Zoe le Verdier isn't afraid to explore the most explicit female fantasies. A range of sexual fetishism to sex with a stranger and lusty interludes with your car mechanic. 
 
Zoe's stories all have present-day settings and feature strong women who aren't afraid to take the plunge and enjoy themselves. These powerfully erotic tales push the boundaries of women's erotica and are unashamedly hot!

Insomnia

Erica Martin Thriller

Eternal Ones

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Everyman's Children's Classics has more than 50 titles in print. It offers the finest editions currently available of the world's greatest children's books in handsome, full cloth hardcover bindings. 
 
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Luce doesn’t like the sound of the Sword and Cross reform school, and it lives up to all her expectations. Until she meets Daniel. He’s perfect, but what she doesn’t realise is that they have met before. Many times. He is a fallen angel, and each time they meet they are torn apart, Luce dying and Daniel forced to live on without her. They think that they have found a way to break the curse, but they will have to make great sacrifices along the way. Love never dies in this darkly romantic series which spans centuries in its storytelling.

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