Aleksandar Zolotic

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. He graduated in Physics and Mathematics from Rostov University and studied Literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. The publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Novy Mir in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels Cancer Ward and The First Circle. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle The Red Wheel. In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008.

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Alena Tkach is an award-winning Ukrainian freelance illustrator who studied Graphic Arts at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. She works mostly as children’s book illustrator and 2D artist. Alena loves llamas because they are cute and sweet, and when they jump it's really funny. Follow Alena on Instagram @alena.tkach.

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Alex Bellos is a journalist, broadcaster and puzzle master. He read Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University before becoming a journalist and writer. Alex was born in Oxford and grew up in Edinburgh and Southampton and lived in Brazil for five years as a foreign correspondent for the Guardian before returning to the UK He is the author of 8 books about puzzles and mathematics and currently writes weekly puzzle column for the Guardian.

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Alex Dekker served as a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces 'Green Berets' for nearly 20 years, first with 5th Special Forces Group and then as a special operations team member assigned to the United States Army Special Operations Command. He has deployed multiple times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations worldwide, and has attended multiple advanced tactical and technical schools within the U.S. Special Operations community and interagency. Alex has traveled to dozens of countries for work and personal adventures and has spent years living abroad. He is an avid student of history who has participated as a volunteer in numerous archaeological digs, is an Arabic speaker, and holds a Masters in Applied Intelligence from Georgetown University. When not traveling, Alex lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Savannah, a former CIA Operations Officer, their children, and their German Shepherd Donovan.

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Alex Evans is Campaigns Director at Avaaz.org, a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC), and has nearly twenty years’ experience in climate and development policy. Alex has worked as Special Adviser to two UK Secretaries of State for International Development (Hilary Benn and Valerie Amos), as an expert on climate change in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and with think tanks including Chatham House and the Brookings Institution. He has also worked as a consultant on futures and foreign policy for organizations from Oxfam to the US National Intelligence Council. 
Alex lives in North Yorkshire and is married with two children.

Alex Evans

Alex Ferguson was born and brought up in Govan, Glasgow. He has always been a controversial figure, never far from the limelight, from the time he led an apprentices’ strike before entering full-time football. As a player with a reputation as uncompromising centre-forward his clubs included Glasgow Rangers, Dunfermline and Falkirk, and he became a spokesman for the player’s union. His first appointment as manager was with East Stirling, from where he moved to Love Street, where St Mirren’s crowds under his dynamic leadership rose from 3,000 to 12,000. He joined the Pittodrie set-up as manager in 1978.

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Dominic Arrow

Jonathan Carey works with young unemployed men at St Mark's - a drop-in centre in a run -down area of North London. It's a part of the city where the only grown industries are outside the law - and the men he cares for are often left to choose between lives of idleness or violence. Until they begin to explore a third alternative, finding pleasures in each other that they never imagined. 
 
Stewart is one such man, dividing his time between the increasingly sensual games at St Mark's and a mysterious gang in which sex plays as important a role as crime. As Jonathan too is sucked into the erotic interplay between the young men in his charge, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the aloof Stewart. But can Jonathan save him from the dark allure of the criminal underworld?

Rough With The Smooth

Arabella Knight

Under the stern tutelage of Madame Seraphim Savage, Susie is training to be a corsetiere. A keen student of fashion, Susie soon discovers that at the Rookery - Madame's private establishment - discipline, correction and other special services are always in vogue. Madame's clients, it seems, appreciate the stripe of a cane as much as they do the cut of a tight-fitting basque. 
 
Intrigue abounds, as do jealous rivalries, but Susie's appetite for the pleasures of punishment seems boundless. And that's just as well, as Madame's cardinal rule - that the customer always comes first - is strictly enforced.

Susie in Servitude

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

Sarah Fisher

The chauffeur stood still for a moment, then moved his broad hand up towards the button on his tight uniform jacket. His voice was low and hypnotic. 
 
'I can give you anything you want, Francesca,' he whispered. 'And I think I know what you want.' 
 
Behind an overgrown garden by the sea, a mysterious crumbling mansion harbours a tantalising secret. This fortress of grandeur is home to fading society beauty Alicia Moffat, her inscrutable chauffeur and a remarkable collection of priceless erotica. 
 
Francesca Leeman - a young writer - is commissioned to catalogue this very private collection. She finds her new acquaintances cultured, enigmatic - and a very perverse. In an atmosphere of perpetual stimulation, Francesca finds a strange security in their games of voyeurism and pleasure.

A Private Collection

Penny Birch

Penny Birch is a very naughty girl, and this collection of stories shows just how far she'll go to prove it. 
It begins with her sexual awakening and goes on to cover the most erotic episodes of her life as her love of sexual submission develops and becomes increasingly complex. 
Always enthusiastic, she delights in the strange and imaginative, often finding herself tied up or having her bottom spanked. As these accounts of her perverse pleasures unfold, you'll come to realise just how bad she really is.

Bad Penny

Jay Russell

Hard-boiled, hard-bodied black British private eye Alton Davies can't believe his eyes or his luck when he finds muscular African-American gangsta rapper Banji-B lounging in his office early one morning. Alton's disbelief - and his excitement - mount as Banji-B asks him to track down a stolen videotape of a post-gig orgy in which his homeboy, the notorious laydeez man Karamel, plays a starring and revealingly man-pleasing role. 
 
Alton has just twelve hours to catch up with the thief: exotic dancer Champain Blue. And while the rappers cruise the London streets in their twenty-foot Caddy, hungry for sex and distraction, Champain keeps one well-lubricated move ahead of an increasingly stretched and desperate Alton. The tension is mounting as time - and Karamel's reputation - ticks away.

Booty Boys

Lisette Ashton

I'm giving you a last chance to take the east options,' Frankie explained.' This is your last chance to escape before I start to use my special toys on you.' 
 
Number three shivered but remained silent. 'I'll cane you,' Frankie continued. 'I'll beat you. I'll humiliate you so badly that your shame will sting worse that the welts I leave on your backside.' 
 
Set on its own island, far away prying eyes, the castle is a haven for the perverse. Three slave owners, each with a reputation for dominating the indomitable, are gambling to attain ownership of the castle. Testing their skills to the limit, each tries to prove their mastery and show themselves worthy of this ultimate prize. The dance of submission is the ultimate proof of tat mastery and they each strive to beat others in a race to teach their slaves the steps.

Dance Of Submission

Jack Gordon

When Robert McLeod and his flatmate Angelo travel to a remote Scottish island, they anticipate a relaxing holiday in Robert's newly inherited cottage. Kelpie Island has a strange, rocky beauty, the natives are friendly, and welcome the blond Englishman and the coffee-skinned Argentinian with open arms. 
 
But all is not what it seems. Robert's secret feelings for the handsome Angelo continue to grow, whilst Kelpie Island and its inhabitants are keepers of a more ancient secret, their hospitality hiding a deeper motive. 
 
As Angelo becomes increasingly beguiled by the domineering rulers of the island - and Robert wrestles with pangs of jealousy while assuaging his desires with its willing inhabitants - it becomes apparent that there is more to the island's traditions than either man could ever imagine.

Dark Rider

Tesni Morgan

Amber, Sue and Diane - three women from an English market town - are successful in their businesses, but all want more from their private lives. When they become involved in the Silver Banner - an English Civil War re-enactment society- there's plenty of opportunity for them to fraternise with the handsome muscular men in historical uniform. Thing is, the fun-loving Cavaliers are much sexier than the puritan Roundheads, and the tensions are rivalries are played out on the village green and in the bedroom. 
 
Great characterisation and oodles of sexy fun in this story of three friends who love dressing up for a romp.

Heat Of The Moment

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.

In Hot Pursuit

Maria Del Rey

Paradise Bay is an idyllic resort on a remote and beautiful island, where sex and desire are taken to extremes. It is the place where Alice, secretary to the beautiful and powerful Joanne, comes to terms with her inner feelings of submission. It is the place where icy journalist Amanda Trevelyan discovers the shocking erotic secrets of the famous and temperamental artist Jean-Pierre Giradot.

Paradise Bay

Yolanda Celbridge

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

The Women of Maldona are an ancient order devoted to physical perfection, Sapphic love and strict discipline. Unfulfilled by her mundane London existence, their leader, Jana, selects the most nubile and obedient of her slaves and sets out on a quest for adventure. 
 
In an ancient castle on a deserted Aegean island, Jana and her dedicated followers set about recreating their passionate rituals of punishment and reward. But her reign as Supreme Mistress comes under threat from a flagellant girl goddess who calls herself Aphrodite. In the scorching Mediterranean heat, it is only a matter of time before their rivalry comes to a head in the most sensual and physical of battles.

The Island of Maldona

Laurell K Hamilton

Some know her as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Others as Merry Gentry, LA private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, her life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. 
Among her own kind, she has confronted enemies, endured the treachery and malevolence of her kith and kin, and honoured her duty to conceive a royal heir...all so she could claim a throne. But now she's turned her back on court and crown in favour of exile in the human world. 
However, while she may have rejected the throne, she cannot abandon her people. Someone is killing the fey. The LAPD are baffled and Merry is worried: her kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. And it's not just these murders that concern her. It appears mortals who she once healed with magic are now able to perform miracles themselves - a phenomenon that's wreaking havoc on relations between man and fey and provoking suspicions of forbidden powers. 
So much for leaving blood and politics behind her. Merry had dreamed of a quiet life, but evil knows no borders and it seems nobody lives forever - not even the immortal...

Divine Misdemeanors

(Merry Gentry 8)

Primula Bond

Janie and Sally escape to the English countryside hoping to get some sun and relaxation.They soon become the focus of attention for the local farmers, who are well built, down-to-earth and very different from the boys they have been dating in town. 
 
When Sally's ex-lover rents out a country house nearby, and Janie's childhood playmate Jack buys the farm next door, the girls are spoilt for choice as to whom they will leash their charms. But will everyone get what they want? 
 
From the best-selling author of The Silver Chain, part of the Unbreakable trilogy.

Country Pleasures

Rupert Thomas

The year is 1924. James Cardell has just left school and is preparing for Oxford. However, before the strict routine of university life begins, he is allowed to spend the summer holidays with his cousins in a tiny village in the Kent countryside. There he can pursue his frowned-upon love for painting, and begin to explore his secret obsession with the male physique. 
 
Through his cousin's guidance and the mysterious activities of the village lads, James comes to discover the pleasures of his forbidden impulses. There is one boy in particular whom he longs to possess - the beautiful, muscular Gabriel. Before long, they both find themselves entwined within a web of youthful folly and dark erotic initiation.

Customs Of The Country

Hilary James

Emma, having been denied every dignity by her mistress, Ursula, is now required to sacrifice something even more precious: access to her own pleasure. Confined under her skirts and desperate for the unique attentions of her beautiful, strict guardian, Emma learns what it's like to be denied release from her torment. 
Taken from the tranquillity of an English country residence to Ursula's North African harem, Emma is introduced to a world where the bizarre has become the everyday. And this is no ordinary holiday. Emma is to experience discipline and pleasure that will change her life forever.

Emma Enslaved

In the fifth volume of Emma's storym Henry, Emma's masterful lover, suddenly re-enters her life. But Emma's Mistress, Ursula, and Sabhu the gigantic Haitian slave-trainer are supervising Emma so closely that her delightfully subservient dalliances with Henry are soon discovered. 
Determined to enforce her dominance over her pretty little slave, Ursula sends Emma to a rehabilitation centre. Under the stern tutelage of the Headmistress and the Major, Emma learns complete obedience to her Mistress's strange desires.

Emma's Humiliation

Becoming Ursula's slave is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to Emma. She is whisked away to the confines of an English country residence, where beautiful but cruel mistresses preside over a bevy of young and wayward girls. 
 
This corrective regime demands the ultimate sacrifice in return for forbidden pleasures of absolute fulfilment. Emma surrenders every dignity to learn the discipline necessary for her training.

Emma's Secret World

Anne Tourney

Sometimes the best fix for a lacklustre life is a road trip to Vegas. 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.When her stepsister Heather calls her from Nevada, begging for a ride home, Amity goes to the rescue and soon finds out that she'll have more than one travelling companion. Daniel, Zack and Randy are the members of 3-Way Dream, Amity's favourite band of all time. After their first flash of success, they dropped off the charts. Now they're back, playing in Vegas and sharing a hotel room with Amity's over-sexed stepsister. The moment Amity sees Daniel, the gorgeous guitarist whose fingers used to strum her in her fantasies, she wants him more than ever.  Can she win Daniel from her stepsister and convince him that she's the one who should be driving his dreams?

Head-On Heart

Jasmine Archer

Tasmin has won a photographic assignment to collaborate on a book of nudes with her mentor, Leandra. Thing is, the job is in Los Angeles and Tamsin doesn't want her sophisticated American friend to know how sexually inexperienced she is. 
 
Tamsin sets out to learn all she can before leaving the UK. But her initiation into experimental sex play at the hands of her best friend's Adonis-like flatmate does not prepare Tamsin for Leandra's outrageous lifestyle. Along with her husband, Nigel, and an assortment of kinky friends, Leandra introduces Tamsin to some very different ways to have fun. As the weeks go by, the young photographer becomes less and less innocent as her dominant instincts are awakened

Learning The Hard Way

Ann Summers

In this second collection of sexy secrets as told to hostess Madame B, we discover a world of delicious and dangerous delights. No fantasy is too extreme, no indulgence or scenario off limits. 
 
Velvet Underground - an everyday Tube journey takes an erotic turn for a young woman 
Digits - the telephone provides the ultimate release for two strangers 
The Magic Toyshop - a mysterious saleswoman opens a young customer's eyes to new pleasures 
Buckle My Shoe - Nick is an unashamed foot fetishist; but has he met his match? 
Hard Cell - the prisoner/guard relationship is taken to extremes of passion 
Statuesque - Englishwoman Kelly enjoys a very special midnight feast while on a cooking holiday in Italy 
The Lure of the Greasepaint - best friends Jade and Tania get closer than they ever expected as extras in an orgy scene 
Fourplay - on a second honeymoon in the Seychelles, Alex and Jessica meet attractive Australian couple Laura and Brad, and have a holiday they will never forget 
The Sinner - when her car breaks down, a reporter seeks shelter at a monastery, where she meets the shy Brother Michael... 
Rockstar 2 - model Anna Lamb and her rockstar boyfriend Joey love taking sexual risks in public, and at a masked club for the rich and famous they show everyone else what they're missing. 
 
With private indulgences stripped bare for all to see, Madame B's White Hot &amp; Wild Whispers ensures that nothing remains a secret any more.

Madame B's White Hot & Wild Whispers

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

Abi Titmuss

TO INDULGE ...TO ENJOY ... TO SHARE 
What does Abi Titmuss really fantasise about? 
Who are the men - and women - that turn her on? What is she really thinking about during her most intimate moments? 
For the first time, Abi Titmuss invites you to share her ten most private erotic fantasies. revealing and empowering each fantasy gives you a unique and sensational insight into a woman in touch with her vibrant sexuality. 
Beyond the gossip, behind the rumours, beside the bed - Ten Fantasies shows how a stimulating, vivid erotic imagination can enhance your life.

Ten Fantasies

Introduced to the joys of bare-bottom discipline by lustful ladies, naval cadet Philip Demesne, posted to the Far East, painfully learns true submission from the voluptuous dominatrix Galena, aboard her private carriage on the Trans-Siberian Express. 
 
Escaping from her lash, he is kidnapped to serve in an English School of female domination, transplanted to the emptiness of Siberia to escape do-gooding restrictions on corporal punishment. His male arrogance utterly crushed, Philip gladly submits to total enslavement by women with unlimited flagellant discipline.

The Confessions of an English Slave

Having taken up residence as principal of St Agatha's Academy for Young Ladies, the elegant and perverse Miss Constance de Comynge is determined to make her establishment the envy of all others. 
 
The most beautiful and lascivious of her students join the select 'swish' club where they learn the art of administering and receiving a variety of invigorating punishments. Their passion for discipline soon finds favour with a number of gentlemen in the locale.

The Governess at St Agatha’s

Fleur Reynolds

When Ottile Duvier inherits the family home in the fashionable Garden district of New Orleans, it's the ideal opportunity to set her life on a different course and flee from her demanding aristocratic English boyfriend. However, Ottilie arrives in New Orleans to find that her inheritance has been leased to one Helmut von Straffen - a decadent German, known for his notorious Mardi Gras parties. Determined to claim what is righfully hers, Ottilie challenges von Straffen - but ends up being lured into strange games in steamy locations.

The House In New Orleans

Delver Maddingley

The glamorous world of erotic publishing is the setting for the Captain's latest salacious venture, and, as ever, he enters into it with gusto. But the Jack of all trades can't do everything by himself: he needs writers, editors, illustrators and models. Given the Captain's predilection for female company, it's hardly surprising that most of these turn out to be women, and they soon strike up a good working relationship. So good, in fact, that some of the books begin to seem tame by comparison...

The Palace of Eros

Sex is deviant. Disgusting. Depraved. Sex is banned. And yet despite the law, and the Moral Guardians who police it, a sexual underworld exists which recognizes no rule but that of desire. Into this dark world of the flesh enters Detective Rey Coover, a man who must struggle with his own instincts to uncover the truth about those who recognize no limits. Erotica, science fiction and crime collide in one of Maria del Rey's most imaginative and explicit novels.

The Pleasure Principle

Journalist Selina Rawe eagerly infitrates Her Majesty's Prison at Auchterhuish, where corporal punishment is mandatory for wayward girls, along with more specialist treatments from a gorgeous resident nurse, while the lustful Hebridean mariners provide little - or perhaps too much - relief. Sapphic governess Miss Gurdell worships the bottom beautiful, and Selina is horrified to learn that hers is the tastiest of all.

The Smarting of Selina

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Hairy Maclary and Friends

Meet Nathan Byrn. 
 
He's half White Witch, half Black Witch 
His mother was a healer, his father is a killer 
He's been kept in a cage since he was fourteen. 
 
If White Witches are good 
And Black Witches are evil... 
What happens if you are both?

Half Bad

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Intellectually brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music and cuisine. And a pure sociopath. This is the series that launched the world’s number one villain – Hannibal Lecter.

Hannibal Lecter

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Heartbreaking romances from Rebecca Yarros

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Henry Pratt is the epitomy of the great British underdog. Nothing is ever simple in his world, just when it seems things are going right, life throws him another unwanted curve-ball. Join Pratt as he traverses the highs and lows of everyday life in this comic masterpiece.

Henry Pratt

Her Hidden Fire

To some a brilliant warrior, to others a devil in human form; Hereward is as adept in the art of slaughter as the enemies that gather to claim England's throne. With King Edward heirless and ailing, Hereward has been declared an outlaw. What is he willing to risk in order to save the land he loves? 
 
Hereward's tales are of heroism, treachery, rebellion and bloody battles, with William the Bastard never too far away.

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Heroes of Olympus Graphic Novels

Hetty Feather was left at a foundling hospital when she was a tiny baby. Having grown up in a loving foster family until she was five, and then finding herself returned to the hospital, she begins to question who her actual family are, and is determined to stop at nothing to find out where she came from. Jacqueline Wilson’s acclaimed series follows Hetty and her friend Diamond as they work their way up from their lowly backgrounds to become stars, overcoming loss, unkind bosses and flirtatious boys.

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