Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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Salman Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. His lessons on YouTube have revolutionized learning, garnering billions of views globally. Recognized as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, Khan is also the founder of schoolhouse.world, Khan Lab School, and Khan World School, and the author of The One World Schoolhouse. He holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Carrie Williams

Let down by her travelling companion at short notice, Nadia Kapur reluctantly agrees to take her recently divorced mother, Valerie, on her gap-year trip to India. However, her mother turns out to be anything but the conservative presence she had feared. As the two women explore India's most exotic locations, it is Valerie who experiences a sexual reawakening with a succession of lovers and Nadia who is forced to wrestle with her own inhibitions and repressed desires. The landscape and the people ultimately work their transforming magic on both mother and daughter, causing Valerie to think again about her ex-husband and tempting Nadia with the possiblity of true love.

Chilli Heat

Madelynne Ellis

A decadent regency romance for fans of EL James and Sylvia Day 
 
When eighteenth-century young lady Bella Rushdale finds herself fiercely attracted to handsome landowner Lucerne Marlinscar, she does not expect the rival for her affections to be another man. However, the handsome and decadent Marquis Pennerley has desired Lucerne for years and, when they are brought together at the remote Lauwine Hall for a country party on the Yorkshire Moors, he intends to claim him. This leads to a passionate struggle for dominance - at the risk of scandal - between the highly sexed Bella and the debauched aristocrat. Ultimately it will be Lucerne who will choose the outcome - and his decision is bound to upset somebody's plans.

A Gentleman's Wager

Fredrica Alleyn

Dangerous liaisons... 
 
Esther Reid is the darling of stage and screen. But when her boyfriend publicly dumps her for a younger model she finds herself slipping from the limelight. 
 
Throwing herself into a new role working for the prestigious – and amazingly hot – theatre director Christopher Wheldon is the ideal way to forget her troubles. And Esther soon finds herself caught in an erotic drama offstage as well as on... 
 
Fredrica Alleyn also writes as Marina Anderson and is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Haven of Obedience, as well as The Bracelet

Dramatic Affairs: Black Lace Classics

Eden Bradley

Welcome to Exotica… Leave your inhibitions at the door 
 
Lilli DeForrest is hoping for a week of pampering and relaxation, but when the beautiful Rajan steps into her suite, the attraction is immediate. Rajan is her ideal lover: tender, commanding and intensely erotic. 
 
But, as Lilli is about to discover, his masterful touch is just the beginning… 
 
An utterly delicious erotic romance perfect for fans of E.L. James and Sylvia Day

Exotica

Janine Ashbless

A tale of forbidden love from the talented author of the bestselling Cruel Enchantment 
 
In the ancient temple city of Mulhanabin, the voluptuous Malia Shai awaits her destiny. Millions of people worship her, believing her to be a goddess incarnate. She is, however, very human and consumed by erotic passions that have no outlet. 
 
Into this sacred city comes General Verlaine - the rugged gladiatorial leader of the occupying army. Intimate contact between Veraine and Malia Shai is forbidden by every law of their hostile peoples. But she is the only thing he wants - and he will risk everything to have her.

Divine Torment

Zoe Le Verdier

Newspaper photographer Julia Sargent should be happy and fulfilled. But flattering minor celebrities is not her idea of a challenge, and she's also having doubts about her impending marriage to stunning-looking actor, David Tindall. 
In the midst of her uncertainty comes an invitation to a school reunion. Seven years earlier, Julia and her friends wrote down their future goals. When the group meet up, adolescent passions are rekindled - as are bitter rivalries - and between old flames Nick and Steve. She cannot resist one last fling, but Steve will not let Julia go. Not until he has completed the final goal of his own seven-year list

The Seven Year List

Stella Black

Stella Black has a 1969 Pontiac Firebird, a leopard-skin bra and a lot of attitude. Partying her way around Hollywood she is discovered by Leon Lubrisky, the billionaire mogul of Pleasure Dome Inc. He persuades her to work for him and she soon becomes one of the most famous adult stars in America. 
 
 Invited on chat shows, dating pop stars and hanging out with the Beverley Hills A-list. But dark forces are gathering and a political party is outraged and determined to destroy Stella any which way they can. Soon she finds herself in dangerous - and highly sexually charged - situations, where no one can rescue her.

Stella Does Hollywood

Will the student become the master? 
 
When aspiring writer Genevieve Carter takes a job for Anne Tournier, her favourite erotic novelist, she fast becomes her muse. 
 
Led into a world of temptation with a number of hot men, Genevieve finds that some pleasures are too hard to deny. 
 
But while her mistress is happy to encourage her bad behaviour, she’s not prepared for Genevieve to become her rival...

The Apprentice

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Portia Da Costa

The Waverley Grange Country Hotel: where even the most innocent can submit to their deepest desires… 
 
After spying her neighbours having a kinky rendez-vous in their back garden, Annie Conroy is intrigued, and decides to check in to the hotel well known for its erotic and alluring guests. 
 
Under the stern but playful eye of exotic Master Valentino, Annie quickly discovers the hidden depths of her own sensuality, and surrenders herself to his power games. But dare she give her heart to a man who only answers to ‘Master’…? 
 
Give in to temptation with Suite Seventeen, an erotic romance from Portia Da Costa, the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep

Suite Seventeen

B is for Bondage… 
 
When Kristina spots her best-friend wearing a pretty new bracelet, little doesshe know that her new piece of jewellery hides a multitude of erotic secrets. 
 
Enticed by her friend’s saucy tales, Kristina finds herselfjoining a very discreet society, and meeting the dark and mysterious Tarquin Rashid who promises to fulfil all her fantasies, if she’ll only submit to his every whim... 
 
Fredrica Alleyn also writes as Marina Anderson and is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Haven of Obedience, as well as Cassandra’s Conflict and Cassandra’s Chateau

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Erotic Romance

Cleo Cordell

An intense exploration of exoticism and the boundaries of erotic desire. 
 
Willing captive Marietta is settling into an opulent life of privileged captivity as favoured concubine in the handsome Kasim's harem. But when she is kidnapped by Kasim's enemy, Hamed, her new-found way of life is thrown into chaos. Reunited with her beautiful slave lover, Gabriel, she suffers the torments of a tainted desire. 
 
Kasim, too, has to face the toughest challenge of his life, For the only way he can win back Marietta from the clutches of Hamed and the arms of Gabriel is to agree to spend time as Hamed's plaything. Will his honour - and, indeed, his flesh, stand the test?

The Senses Bejewelled

Crystalle Valentino

Welcome to the world of the elite... 
 
As a model, Jemma is used to being the centre of attention. And when Dominic Vane, the world-famous photographer, asks her to pose for him, she knows it’s not just her pictures he’s interested in. 
 
But in a world where pleasure is pursued above all else, will falling for Dominic’s masterful touch come at too high a cost? 
 
From the glamorous South of France to the luxuries of Monte Carlo, A Private View will take you on a wild journey of sexual discovery. A classic Black Lace romance.

A Private View

Kimberley Raines

Eugene, born poor but grown-up handsome, answers an ad to be a sex slave for a year. He naively assumes his role will be that of a gigolo, and thinks he will easily make the million dollars he needs to break into Hollywood. However, on arrival at a secret destination in the Middle East he discovers his tasks are somewhat more challenging. He will be a pleasure slave to the Mistress Olanthe - a demanding woman with high expectations who will put Eugene through some exacting physical punishments and pleasures. Undergoing humiliations that few men could handle, Eugene is in for the shock, or reward - of his life.

Slave To Success

Are you ready for the dark side of love…? 
 
The moments when Ava Gregory feels her most beautiful and complete are when she is tied up and bound. 
 
Then she meets Desmond Hale, a master in the ancient Japanese bondage art of Shibari. He takes her to the very edge of ecstasy. But having learned the beauty of surrender, dare Ava risk her heart? 
 
The Beauty of Surrender is a hot erotic romance which will delight fans of E L James, Sylvia Day and Portia Da Costa.

The Beauty of Surrender

Madeline Moore

Winner takes all... 
 
When Victoria Ashe lures an ex-lover to her London hotel room, their passion is reignited with startling intensity. She's out to prove to Ray that intimacy can be just as exciting as the thrill of the chase. Ray Torrington might actually agree if it weren't for King Bai Lon, a Hong Kong bombshell who doles herself out one delicate morsel at a time, always in public. And Penny, a champion poker player known as 'The Flame of London', also has her sights on the saucy jackpot of winning King Bai Lon. 
 
The scene is set for a high-stakes game of sexual exploration. When the wild card keeps changing it's difficult for even the most accomplished player to know who's bluffing and who is telling the truth. But in this lusty tournament of champions, the winner takes all.

Wild Card

Deanna Ashford

Helen Dawson is a dedicated doctor who has taken a short-term assignment at an exclusive private hospital that caters for every need of its rich and famous clients. The matron, Sandra Pope, ensures this includes their most curious sexual fantasies. When Helen forms a risky affair with a famous actor, she is drawn deeper into the hedonistic lifestyle of the clinic. But will she risk her won privileges when she uncovers the dubious activities of Sandra and her team? 
 
This story of naughty nurses getting busy behind the screens will set temperatures soaring!

Doctor's Orders

Can a student become the master? 
 
Uninspired by her mundane office job, Joanna Darrell decides to throw herself into a new way of life that revolves around giving and receiving punishment. 
 
Drawn in by a chain of coincidences, like Alice in a decadent wonderland, she enters a parallel world of perversity and unusual pleasure. But can her experimenting really become a way of life? 
 
From Portia Da Costa, the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep and How to Seduce a Billionaire

Master of the Game

Olivia Christie

In 19th-century France, Gilles de la Trave persuades Colette, a young and beautiful peasant girl from one of his estates, to become his mistress and live the life of a Parisian courtesan. However, it is his son Victor that she loves and expects to marry. In a moment of passion and curiosity she confesses her sins to the local priest, unaware that the cure has his own agenda: one which involves himself and Victor. Shocked, Colette takes the only sensible option for a young girl from the provinces she flees to Paris to immerse herself in a life of wild indulgence and luxury!

French Manners

Leonie Martel

Sex and scandal in Westminster! 
 
Kirsten Caine, femme fatale and sexual subversive, is an uncompromising deviant. She exacts her pleasures through the disciplinary art of male humiliation, where attention to aesthetic detail is lovingly realised and punishment is not given lightly. 
 
Simon Charlesworth, cabinet minister, is undergoing a crisis. Party politics, domestic routine and thoughts of morality have recently begun to crush his soul and he hungers for authentic experience and excitement - but he doesn't yet know what form this might take. 
 
When these two very different personalities meet by chance one evening in a bar in Victoria Station, London, the wheels are set in motion for a descent into sexual excess and an exploration of the human condition at its most primal. Through a series of humiliating and extreme adventures Charlesworth reaches for the oblivion of erotic ecstasy. But there is a price to pay - a price that sees him undone by his own desire.

The Private Undoing of a Public Servant

Laura Hamilton

Yasmin and U seem like the perfect twenty-first century media couple. She's a scriptwriter for soaps and he's a magazine editor with a knack for tapping into the latest trends. Then, one evening, U confesses to Yasmin that he's 'having a thing' with a nineteen-year-old violinist - the precocious niece of Yasmin and U's old boss, the formidable Pandora Fairchild. Amelia, the violinist, turns out to be a catalyst for a whole series of erotic experiments that even Yasmin finds intriguing. In a haze of absinthe, lust and wild abandon, all parties find answers to questions about their sexuality they were once too afraid to ask.

Fighting Over You

Justine Elyot

A brand new sizzling collection of linked short stories by the highly acclaimed author of the ebook sensation, On Demand 
 
They include the actress/director of a new production of Kiss Me Kate discovering the fun of a real life ‘taming’, a sizzling BDSM ménage, an innocent’s first day at a private fetish club and a very kinky encounter with a famous screen star.

Seven Scarlet Tales

Monica Belle

Young, gifted and falling for Mr Wrong... 
 
Poppy Miller is an exceptionally bright and ambitious student at a top British university. Determined to make her mark in politics, she has her mind set on finding a husband with similar aspirations to herself. Stephen Mitchell, a second-year law student seems to fit the profile and the young pair begin a tender love affair and plan a future together. But then Dr James McLean, a rakish don, appears on the scene. 
 
Poppy can't help feeling drawn to the older man, and the campus stories about his colourful past and masterful character only increase her fascination. She knows that a liaison with the darkly seductive McLean will change the course of her life, but perhaps deep down that is what she wants after all? Poppy has to make a choice: should she go with her head or with her heart? Her romantic notions or her baser instints...

The Choice

The bad boy or the rock star? 
 
Jenna Diamond and her bad-boy lover Jason are enjoying an exciting and sensual fling. But he has skeletons from his past which prove challenging to overcome. 
 
And when Jenna’s rock-star husband returns, desperate to make amends, she is faced with a difficult decision: she must choose between her new life and her old, between her heart and her head… 
 
The conclusion to the thrillingly erotic Diamond trilogy, from the author of On Demand

Diamonds Forever

Suki Cunningham

Jo Bell is a feisty journalist with just one weakness - her boss, Jerome. When he sends her on a features assignment to a stately English home, she finds herself sucked into an erotic battle of wills with the owners of the mansion - who have their own weaknesses. Young, posh and decadent Alicia will go to any lengths to prove her sexual superiority, and her seemingly shy brother is keeping his own proclivities too quiet for Jo's liking. As the estate is used as a film location for an historical drama, all manner of boundaries are pushed to the limit. Soon, even Jerome is brought into the siblings' games of degradation and punishment - acted out in private and in front of the cameras.

Release Me

Eve Berlin

Alec Walker should come with a warning. 
 
A man who lives on the edge, he is famous for his love of dangerous sports, kinky sex and independent women. 
 
Dylan Ivory has come to interview him for her latest book but instead he issues her with a challenge – and the perfect way to do her research. 
 
Part 1 of The Edge Trilogy, a dark sensual romantic series, perfect for fans of E.L. James and Sylvia Day, from the acclaimed author of The Dark Garden

Pleasure's Edge

Sultry and mischievous Angela McKie loves dressing up in fetish clothing inspired by Victorian decadence. Perfecting an air of occult seciness, she enjoys teasing men to distraction, She attracts the lustful attentions of two very different people: Stephen Byrne is a serious young politician with a bright future; Michael Merrick is a cartoonist for a horror comic. Both want her and set out to get her, but quickly discover they have bitten off more than they can chew when they allow themselves to be suduced by the maverick Ms McKie.

Black Lipstick Kisses

Give in to desire... 
 
Kara Crawford doesn’t expect to find anyone who can fulfil her dark fantasies until she experiences one of the most incredible nights of her life with a man she’s always admired from afar. 
 
Dante De Matteo may be a master of control now, but his troubled past means he won’t let anyone ever get too close... 
 
A dark sensual romantic novel perfect for fans of E.L. James, from the acclaimed author of The Dark Garden and Pleasure’s Edge

Desire's Edge

It’s going to get hot and steamy this Christmas... 
 
Sandy Jackson still dreams of the sexy stranger who came to her rescue years before. 
 
And when she meets Jay Bentley again she doesn’t recognise him. Horrifically wounded in a car crash, Jay has both physical and psychological scars and is more Beast than Prince Charming. 
 
But he has not forgotten their earlier encounter either... And all he wants this Christmas is Sandy in his bed... 
 
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep and the ‘Accidental’ series 
 
(previously published as Kiss it Better)

The Gift

Various

A Wicked Words collection - saucy and compelling short stories 
 
Themed around the universal female love of shopping and spending,with an emphasis on fashion. But it's not all queues, credit card bills, heavy bags, fitting rooms and surly assistants - our characters find time for a great deal of naughty fun while out in the boutiques, superstores and malls of the everyday town and city. 
 
Includes stories by Maya Hess, Kristina Lloyd, Fiona Locke, Mathilde Madden and Portia da Costa.

Wicked Words: Sex And Shopping

Megan Hart

Lauren Dane

Four days in Vegas. Two sexy and determined men. One penthouse suite ... And no reservations. 
 
Christmas isn't so merry for Kate and Leah. Kate's romantic winter holiday is destroyed by the sudden and uninvited presence of Dix's annoying ex-wife, while Brandon's super-perfect family and a diamond ring send Leah running for Sin City with Kate in tow. 
 
But Dix and Brandon both know what they want. In hot pursuit, the men show up in Vegas, ready to use every sensual trick they have to convince Kate and Leah to take a gamble on forever. 
 
The sizzling sequel to Taking Care of Business.

No Reservations

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