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John Gibbons is an environmental journalist and commentator who has been speaking about climate change in Ireland for over a decade. The Lie of the Land is his first book.

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Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

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Mercedes Kelly

Princess Angeline lives on a paradise island in the South Seas. Married to Prince Hari and accepted into the native culture, she has a life of sensual fulfilment which she shares with her hedonistic friends. When Hari's gorgeous young manservant, Adam, is kidnapped and taken to nearby Monkey Island, Angeline sets about planning his rescue. 
 
Adam is being held captive by the Powerful One - a woman of almost superhuman desires - and is being used as her sex slave on the far shores of the Lake of Lost Love. With the help of her friends Kelila and Isadora, Angeline plots to confront the fearful ruler of Monkey Island and return Adam to the Ile de Paradis.

Lake of Lost Love

Janine Ashbless

Avril Shearing is a landscape gardener brought in to reclaim an overgrown woodland for the handsome and manipulative Michael Deverick. But among the trees lurks a tribe of environmental activists determined to stop anyone getting in, led by the enigmatic Ash who regards Michael as his mortal enemy. Avril soon discovers that on the Kester Estate nothing is as it seems. Creatures that belong in dreams or in nightmares emerge after dark to prowl the grounds, and hidden in the heart of the wood is something so important that people will kill, or die, for it. Ash and Michael become locked in a deadly battle for the Wildwood - and for Avril herself.

Wildwood

G Edenbridge

Medieval Britain: Frank du Bois, an orphaned young nobleman, abandons his hopeless love for Rob, a young woodcutter, believing they are half-brothers. But, through a mysterious journey that includes his induction into a bizarre phallic cult, the Brothers of the Tree of Life, Frank learns all bout sex magic. He learns, too, the obscure details of his past and concludes that he and Rob may not be related after all. .

Brotherhood

Joe Stretch

Are you ready to come together? 
 
Are you tired of typing out your interests and hyping up the details of your everyday life? Imagine then a social network that touches and loves, sweats and farts. Imagine romance in real time. Imagine humans licking rather than double clicking each other. Imagine the Wild World. Are you ready to come together? 
 
Lonely, horny and young, Janek, Anka, Roger and Joe find themselves being dragged out of their isolated existences and towards the promise of a perfect future - in the Wild World. Sex lives and real lives and written lives merge and tangle like wires until reality begins to crumble and the sky falls in...

Wildlife

Martine Marquand

Jo is too young and adventurous to submit to the stifling morality of the religious mission house where she's grown up.When her friend Emmi runs away to live in a pagan community in the depths of Yorkshire, Jo follows, keen to open her mind and body to the realities of the wild, untamed sex they practise there. 
 
Michael is the charismatic leader of the group, who promises her the ultimate exploration of her newly awakened animals passions.As the summer heat intensifies, and preparations begin for their orgiastic midsummer festival, Jo is expected to play a central part in the cult's increasingly bizarre rites.Will she ever re-adjust to normal society?

Animal Passions

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

Allie Oleander

Anything goes in the woods… 
 
Drowning in student loan debt, Claire Collins is about to be made an offer she can’t refuse: spend thirty days indulging corporate lawyer Shane Underwood’s primal desires in exchange for $30,000. All she has to do is give him the hunt of his life. 
 
Claire’s perfectly happy to swap her boring summer serving job for wild, kinky sex. But once they cross the tree line, she realizes how little she knows about the man paying her to be his prey. 
 
Shane is different in the woods. Brutal. Devastating. Feral. 
 
That’s okay with Claire—she is, too. And she’s sinking her teeth a little deeper into Shane’s heart every time he catches her.

Willing Prey

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

Aishling Morgan

This novel is populated by strange half-human creatures like Tian-Sha, the tigranthrope, a beautiful blend of girl and tiger. 
 
In this bizarre fantasy world a complex plot of erotic intrigue is played out against a background of arcane ritual and nightmare symmetry.

Tiger, Tiger

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

Fleur Reynolds

A lush, erotic historica novel set in 16th century Peru... 
 
Left in the care of a debauched viceroy , the young princess lnez is determined to find an escape route from her guardian's vile clutches. She leaves her palatial home and sets off into unknown territory, hot on the trail of her lover, the insatiable Lorenzo. Rescued from certain death by a group of Amazonian warriors, Inez is recognised as a tribal queen and is initiated into the ways of the forest people. 
 
Simultaneously, a young English woman is searching for her brother: the licentious adventurer, Lord Andrew Parsons. Deep in the heart of the forest, the young princess has discovered a young man whose capacity for the more esoteric physical enjoyments seems unlimited. Very soon, all their paths will cross.

Conquered

Philip Palmer

A gritty thriller set behind the Iron Curtain in 1960s Hungary 
 
Budapest, 1963. Special Investigator Bertalan Lázár and his wife, spymaster Franciska Lázár, face formidable challenges as they try to navigate a path through the dangerous underworld of Cold War-era Hungary. Catching the criminals is difficult enough, but there are other more threatening battles raging in higher places. 
 
In these 16 episodes, Bertalan must investigate the murder of a former member of the secret police, fight a turf war as he tries to find a child killer, probe a seemingly straightforward case of GBH that leads him to a rogue cop and enter the uncharted territory of Budapest's underground drugs scene after a rock musician is found dead. 
 
Written by Philip Palmer, this gripping, atmospheric drama expertly conjures up the tense, paranoid world of Communist Hungary, where dissidence was dangerous, the truth was hard to find and pursuing justice could get you killed. Leo Bill stars as Bertalan and Clare Corbett as Franciska, with Andy Linden as Tibor Farkas and Joseph Ayre as József Szabados. 
 
The episodes in this collection are: 
 
 The Wolf 
The Old Days 
Behind the Wall 
Waiting by the River 
Heroes 
Gellert Hill 
Spider's Web 
Carnaby Street 
Gypsy Dancers 
Grandmother's Footsteps 
Mad Dog 
The Light of Dawn 
The Great Society 
Red Pen 
The Great Tree Gang 
The Magical Magyars 
 
Produced and directed by Toby Swift and Sasha Yevtushenko 
Sound Design by Caleb Knightley 
 
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Bertalan Lázár - Leo Bill 
Franciska Lázár - Clare Corbett 
Tibor Farkas - Andy Linden 
József Szabados - Joseph Ayre 
Gizella - Nicola Ferguson 
Bela Fekete - Sargon Yelda 
Mr Papp - Nick Underwood 
Kitchen Porter - Richard Pepple 
Police Officer/Csaba - Sam Rix 
Lilien Racz - Adie Allen 
Milton Szilard - Philip Fox 
Kristof Szep - Samuel James 
Mr Kiraly - Robert Blythe 
Waiter/Peterke - Tom Forrister 
Mrs Tolnay - Sanchia MacCormack 
Stenographer - Kerry Gooderson 
Dmitri Dragunov - Simon Scardifield 
Márk Mészáros - Michael Bertenshaw 
András Vásáry - David Hounslow 
Priest/Copper - Christopher Harper 
Gyuri Varg/Fabenyi/Police officer/Partygoer - Kenny Blyth 
Dorina Varga - Helen Clapp 
Ministry official/Police officer/Drug dealer/Partygoer - Chris Pavlo 
Hanna Krivosik - Franchi Webb 
Zsófia/Nurse 1 - Sarah Ovens 
PuŠomori Žiga - Debbie Korley 
Mrs Kovacs/Nurse 2/Receptionist - Susan Jameson 
Gyozo Novak - Carl Prekopp 
Florian Hevesi - Luke Nunn 
Sandor Boros - Stephen Greif 
Pathologist - Jane Whittenshaw 
Cop/Detective - Stefan Adegbola 
Mother - Emma Handy 
Kulcsar - Roger Ringrose 
Draskovic - Ewan Bailey 
Billiards player/Prison officer - Ian Dunnett Jnr 
Hadik - Hasan Dixon 
Richard Miklos/Károly Miklós/Laska - Shaun Mason 
Violinist/Márton Kozma/Police Officer/Priest - Simon Ludders 
Réka Kozma/Pathologist - Jane Slavin 
Archivist/Ioveanu - Tony Turner 
Orsolya - Ria Marshall 
Receptionist - David Sturzaker 
 
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Keeping the Wolf Out

The complete BBC Radio 4 full-cast crime series

Emily Rath

The Lady has an offer. 
 
The Vicar has a Confession. 
 
Lady Madeline Blair is on a mission. Her eccentric late aunt left her a small fortune with one condition: to claim it, Madeline must marry by New Year's Eve… which is now only three weeks away! An invitation to spend Christmas at Alcott Hall provides the perfect chance to snag herself an unsuspecting beau. She will be generous with her inheritance; on the condition he agrees never to claim his rights as her husband. 
 
Five years ago, Charles Bray left Finchley and never looked back. It was too painful to dwell in the past. So, when duty calls him home, he returns, heart heavy, to a town full of ghosts. Seeking any distraction, he sparks an unlikely friendship with a quiet young lady who makes him a surprising offer too good to refuse. 
 
And then there's John . . .

Alcott Hall

Karen S Smith

When newlyweds Emma and Kit speed away on their matching Ducati motorbikes, Emma knows not to expect a conventional honeymood. From the moment they meet a biker gang and the leader takes a shine to Emma, events take a turn for the bizarre. For the first time in her life she will be pushed to her limits as the gang's idea's for how to have a good time get more and more outrageous. With hard-drinking rock bands, hunky stuntmen, booze-fuelled biker festivals and a whole lot of kinky behaviour on the agenda, Emma's taste for adventure is tested to the max - and Kit's not about to step in and save her from the wild bunch as he's having too much fun himself! 
 
A wild, leather-clad, biker orgy, this high-octane spin across the continent is set to send the blood racing.

Sleazy Rider

When newlyweds Emma and Kit speed away on their matching Ducati motorbikes, Emma knows not to expect a conventional honeymoon. From the moment they meet a biker gang and the leader takes a shine to Emma, events take a turn for the bizarre. For the first time in her life she will be pushed to her limits as the gang's ideas for how to have a good time get more and more outrageous. With hard-drinking rock bands, hunky stuntmen, booze-fuelled biker festivals and a whole lot of kinky behaviour on the agenda, Emma's taste for adventure is tested to the max - and Kit's not about to step in and save her from the wild bunch as he's having too much fun himself! 
 
A wild, leather-clad biker orgy, this high-octane spin across the continent is set to send the blood racing.

Honeymoon Games

Yolanda Celbridge

Beautiful dominitrix Severe Campaign far exceeds her corporal punishment brief in shaming and enslaving Luke Redruth. Later, he becomes discipline master at Lick's Girl's school, while Severe still delights in caning men at nearby Crushards Acadamy. Yet lustful pupils and staff conspire to have them both sent to a Brazilian plantation marshalled by flagellant police girls.

Licked Clean

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

Penny Birch

Bad Girl!' Angel added, and slapped Sophie's now fur-clad bottom. 
Amber Oakley is suspicious when dominant couple Morris and Melody Rathwell invite her to judge their fetish club's puppy-girl show; but what could go wrong? It's not as if they're asking her to compete. She goes, little suspecting that the event will lead her into the clutches of a fanatic for treating girls as pets to strip-wrestling in baked beans, and an over-endowed puppy-boy! 
 
Follow Amber's adventures in A Taste of Amber and Jodhpurs and Jeans.

Petting Girls

Wendy Swanscombe

Without time to draw breath from the dignities already heaped on them, the three sisters of Disciplined Skin - blonde Anna, redhead Beth, raven Gwen - are plunged into the new tortures and humiliations gleefully devised for them by their mysterious leather-clad captor Herr Abraham Barengelt. Putting its heroines through ordeals that range from mild to perversely bizarre, Beast is sure to confirm the reputation its author has already established for surreal erotic depravity that entertains as much as it arouses.

Beast

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

Roxanne Carr

It is 1851. Maribel wants to see the Wild West; Dan is the frontiersman into whose care she is entrusted. Her campaign to seduce Dan is interrupted by her dalliance with a US cavalry man, who enjoys her skill with her whip and lariat. Then she is taken captive by a lustful native chief's son.

Western Star

Edie Bingham

Hailed as one of the best paranormal erotic romances of the year... 
 
Beautiful tour guide Kami Osbank is known in her Turkish village as a seductive, formidable young woman. But she is so much more than that. Incredibly fit, strong and sensual. she is actually a member of an ancient race known as The Pride. She should stay with her own species, but Kami wants to live in the contemporary world and have fun, where sexual experience is part of a loving relationship. The only problem is that when Kami gets aroused she morphs into a demoness and more than one British holidaymaker has fallen for her deadly charm. 
 
Everything changes when English tourist Mark Healey arrives in Turkey. Mark is different from the other men, and he and Kami find an instant mutual attraction that shocks and stuns both of them. Yet Kami dare not go too far, or Mark's life may be in danger.

The Pride

Monica Belle

Felicity is a girl with two different sides to her character, each leading two very separate lives. 
 
There's Fizz - wild child, drummer in a retro punk band, and car thief. 
 
And then there's Felicity - a quiet, polite, and ultra efficient office worker. 
 
But as her attractive, controlling boss takes an interest in her, she finds it hard to keep the two parts of her life separate. Will being with Stephen mean choosing between personas and sacrificing so much of her life? But then, it also appears that Stephen has some very peculiar and addictive ideas about intimacy himself.

The Boss

Angel Blake

Stories of pagan orgies lead a journalist to a remote Scottish village. What White finds there goes beyond his darkest fantasies. 
 
Discovering an ancient cult whose women debase themselves for their bestial lovers, he is soon bewitched by an exotic dancer called Miriam and May, the wild girl of the woods who must be trained and tamed. And when White discovers their shameful secret, he must choose between them and their puritan enemies : designers of the most exquisite tortures.

Called To The Wild

Thirteen girls relate their filthy experiences with spanking fanatic Percy Ottershawm, from his headmaster's daughter to Penny herself. 
 
From 1950 to 2000, his life was dedicated to getting his girlfriends across his knee, pulling down their tight white cotton knickers and spanking their bare bottoms. Otherwise, he is polite, considerate and every bit the gentlemen, always willing to indulge the girls' wildest fantasies, from wetting their knickers in the street to being tarred and feathered.

Tight White Cotton

Felix Baron

The auction catalogue read: Lot # 217. A tin trunk, circa 1860, containing a number of esoteric volumes, many with curious woodcuts, all in poor condition 
The trunk held the secret diaries of Sir Richard Francis Burton, soldier, spy, explorer, linguist, diplomat, master of disguise, the greatest swordsman of all time, hero, scoundrel, rake. His deeds are legendary, from single-handedly routing a score of attacking tribesmen to translating the Kama Sutra after having tested every single position it describes. 
Long periods of Burton's life have been shrouded in mystery. His lovely wife, Isabel, burned many of his papers, 'to protect his reputation.' Now it can be revealed that Burton's remarkable skill with the sabre was exceeded by his incredible sexual prowess. During the period of his life that he describes in The Persian Girl, he futtered his way from London to the Himalayas, coupling with two women at once, as an hors d'oeuvre, then taking his pleasure from gorgeous trios and beautiful quartets until his magnum opus - an extended orgy with a dozen female participants, with Burton as the only male. 
After that, saving the British Empire from a perfidious Russian plot was easy.

The Persian Girl

Evie Hunter

When reporter Abbie Marshall needs to escape Honduras, a private jet carrying a Hollywood A-lister is her only way out. She has a ride home with Irish actor Jack Winter - notorious womanizer and all round bad boy. Having little interest in Hollywood, Abbie is shocked to be shaken to the core by Winter's blazing beauty and provocative mind. 
 
After the plane's nose-dive into the remote rainforest forces them to fight for survival, Abbie catches tantalizing glimpses of the complicated man behind the movie star image. And the more she sees of him, the more he touches some primal part of her that she is determined to suppress. But after a moment of terror leads to a devastating encounter with Winter's shadow side, Abbie's detachment is shattered. 
 
On returning to normal life, Abbie cannot forget what happened between them, nor ignore the shocking rumours about the star's private life. Her struggle to make sense of her torment leads straight back to Winter, who is just as obsessed by her. But if they are to have a relationship, Abbie knows she must embrace his hidden desires ... and accept her own. 
 
No longer caring about anything but their intoxicating love affair, Abbie is drawn deeper into the dark heart of Winter - and the secret that threatens to destroy everything ...

The Pleasures of Winter

Gabrielle Salinger has been sent to track down Sabrina, a voluptuous and dominant young woman who has fallen under the influence of elderly sybarite David Anthony. Gabrielle soon discovers that the couple are already in France, getting up to all sorts of lewd mischief. Accompanied, but not really helped, by her girlfriend Poppy, Monty Hartle and the boys from the Razorback Paintball, Gabrielle is soon beginning to wonder if she's bitten off more that she can chew. By the time she's being hunted through the woods in bunny costume, she's sure that she has.

Naughty Naughty

Lukas Scott

The Midwest, 1849.Hot on the Trail is the story of the original American dream, where freedom is driven by wild passion. And when farmboy Brett skips town and encounters dangerous outlaw Luke Mitchell, sparks are bound to fly in this raunchy tale of hard cowboys, butch outlaws, dirty adventure and true grit. 
 
Find out how wild the West really could be - a place where men were men and pleasure was theirs for the taking.

Hot on the Trail

After the destruction of most of the northern world in a long-forgotten war, Madagascar survives as the most powerful country on Earth. Silk stockings become the most precious currency, which only bare-breasted noblewomen and vampire girl slaves are allowed to wear. Sindi, having been a whip-wielding mistress, herself becomes enslaved, and a smuggler of illicit stockings from Zanzibar. The prince of Madagascar is victorious in the war against his twin brother, the prince of Zanzibar -- but both men fall in love with her. And when it is time for the victor to choose a princess, only the girl whose legs fit the one pair of silk stockings, from the old times, will do. It is Sindi. She becomes Whip mistress of the Islands, Princesse du Fouet, and Dame des Bas Sacrés, Lady of the Sacred Stockings.

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