Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. 
 
 
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series – The Detective (Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) – is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing), the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell. The Shadow (A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.

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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

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

Portia Da Costa

The long-awaited sequel to Gothic Blue 
 
Paula Beckett has a problem. The spirit of the wicked and voluptuous sorceress Isidora Katori is trying to possess her body and Paula finds herself driven by dark desires and a delicious wanton recklessness. 
 
Rafe Hathaway is irresistibly drawn to both women. But who will he finally choose? Feisty and sexy Paula, who's fighting impossible odds to hang on to her very existence or sultry and ruthless Isidora who offers him the key to immortal life?

Gothic Heat

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

Monica Belle

Talented chef Juliet Eden imagines she has the perfect marriage to Toby - a titled aristocrat - and no need to stray from her vows of fidelity. Yet when temptation comes in the form of rough sex with the barely civilised gamekeeper, Ian Marsh, she finds it surprisingly easy to give in. 
 
Naughty Juliet persuades her husband to accept an invitation to a boating holiday, only to discover that the hosts are also offering the lure of saucy delights. Neither Juliet not Toby is able to resist. But once on board, there's a clash of sexual personalities. There's a foxy minx called Annabelle in the crew, and she's got her eye on Toby. However, everyone is determined to get to grips with the notorious rogue who calls himself the spanking Major. It's full steam ahead for an orgasm-packed excursion

Wild By Nature

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

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

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

Laura Thornton

Clarissa Cornwall is a respectable university lecturer who has little time for romance until she encounters the insolently sexy Nicholas St Clair in her class on erotic literature. Suddenly her position – and the age gap between them – no longer matters as she finds herself becoming obsessed with this provocative young man. He likes playing power games and she begins to take more and more risks in an effort to satisfy her sexual appetite for his fit young body. But as the tables are turned, and Nick encourages Clarissa to explore her own erotic horizons, who actually ends up teaching whom?

The Name of an Angel

Lisette Allen

An erotic historical novel set in Ancient Rome 
 
Catrina, an orphan adopted by the pagan Celts, has grown into a beautiful young woman. Luad, the lecherous Druid Leader, is training her in the way of the priesthood, but Catrina is not happy. When the tribe captures a handsome Roman legionary called Alexius - with every intention of killing him - she finds herself strongly drawn to his masculine charms and vows to leave the uncivilised clan. 
 
But she is shocked when Alexius escapes, taking her sacred silver amulet with him. Pursuing him to the Roman city of Eboracum, Catrina realises that decadence is rife, with slaves and gladiators. Carried away by the wild sensuality of the Romans' exotic lifestyle, she discovers the true nature of her desires, and those of Alexius.

The Amulet

Vivienne Lafay

In Renaissance Italy, Carla Buonomi is determined to find a new life for herself where she can put her artistic talents to good use. Dressed as a boy - albeit a very pretty one - she travels to Florence and finds work as an apprentice to master craftsman, Piero Cortoni. All goes well until she is expected to perform licentious favours for her employer - who discovers her gender bending secret. In an atmosphere of repressed passion, Carla has to ensure that Piero keeps his word. If the Guild of Apothecaries finds out, she will face not only expulsion but also severe and humiliating punishment.

Artistic Licence

They come from different worlds. but their paths are destined to cross. 
 
Liam is a working-class journalist fighting a passionate battle against environmental injustice. Rebecca is a spoilt rich girl used to having whatever and whoever, she wants. They are thrown into a dangerous intimacy with each other when Liam - on the run from an irate enemy - is forced to hijack Rebecca's car. Using his rugged charm, he manages to access her true sexuality - something no man has ever done. The usually cool Rebecca is forced to make a choice between her sophisticated but bland lifestyle and the exciting but unpredictable world offered by her charismatic captor.

Risky Business

Mercedes Kelly

Janet McKinnon has been incarcerated in the Sultan's harem for two years. Rosemary McKinnon has recently joined her. Both women were married to a handsome but dissolute Scottish missionary based in Kenya, whose sexual tastes ran contradictory to his religious calling. 
 
Mathilde Valentine is settling into life as a medic in McKinnon's East African mission post. It's a place of mystery and danger and is warned by the rugged game warden - Olensky - to be wary of her new employer. Ignoring his advice, Mathilde is soon sent to the harem, where she has to deal with the demanding Sultan, his sadistic brother and the Sultan's spoilt and sexually rampant son. Meanwhile Olensky - her 'lion lover' - is plotting to bring about her escape. But by the time he makes it to the harem, will she even want to be rescued.

The Lion Lover

Photographer Christabel is drawn to psychic phenomena and dark liasons. When she is persuaded by her husband to take a holiday at a mysterious mansion house in the country, she foresees only long days of boredom. But Nicholas, her deviously sensual husband, has a hand in the unexpected events that begin to unravel. He is keen to ensure that Christabel's holiday is eventful and erotic and she is soon drawn into a web of eroticism with Nicholas's young male PA. Within this unusual and kinky threesome, Christabel learns some lessons the jaded city could never teach her.

Shadowplay

Sian Lacey Taylder

An erotic, Gothic thriller set in rural Dorset in the late 19th Century, a period when educated women were beginning to question their sexuality. 
 
The Society of Sin was conceived on a hot and sticky summer's evening inside a mansion house on a large country estate when, after an opium-fuelled night of passion, Lady P and her close friend Samantha Powerstock succumbed to desires they had both repressed for years. Now, a year later, they have invite a select few to join their exclusive association. But only genuine hedonists need apply. 
 
Prospective members are interrogated over a sumptuous dinner then given an assignment which they must fulfil. Failure to do so results in instant expulsion and the prospect of being 'named and shamed' in the exclusive circles they currently frequent. However, successful completion of the task opens for them a Pandora's box of pain and pleasure.

The Society Of Sin

Katrina Moore

When Californian Nadine has her allowance stopped by her rich uncle, she becomes desperate to maintain her expensive lifestyle. She joins forces with her lover Mark, and together they conspire to steal a vast sum of money from a successful but flashy businessman. 
 
But sexual stakes rise when Nadine and Mark try to put the blame on their target's own girlfriend and make their escape. Naturally, their getaway doesn't go entirely to plan, and the situation escalates when they're pursued across the desert and into the casinos of Las Vegas. Full of sexual intrigue, this action-packed erotic novel is reminiscent of film noir.

Packing Heat

Olivia Christie

A lavish erotic historical set in 20th century France 
 
Paris, 1935. Devastated by the sudden death of her husband, exotic dancer Georgia d'Essange wants to be left alone to grieve. However, her stepson Dominic has inherited his father's business and demands Georgia's help in running it. 
 
The business is an exclusive clube where women of means can indulge their sexual whims with men of their choice and take advantage of the esoteric delights Parisian nightlife has to offer. 
 
Dominic soon proves eager to take his father's place but Georgia's first lover, Theo Sands - now a rich, successful artist - appears on the scene. In an atmosphere if increasing sexual tension, can everyone's desires be satisfied?

Dance Of Obsession

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

Olivia Knight

The moment she starts her doctorate in Oxford, Sarah is beset with mysteries. An old portrait in her rented house bears an uncanny resemblance to her.Her new lover insists he's a ghost. Her attractive, sinister supervisor refuses to let her see manuscripts on witchcraft. An ordinary hill on the meadow fills her with fear - and not just her, but also the man with whom she falls in love. Every time she has sex, she hallucinates strange places and other times. Through sex, magic and orgasmic visions, she must fight betrayal to learn the truth behind the secrets.

The Ten Visions

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

Judith Roycroft

Faron Lonsdale is an ambitious young reporter, always searching for the scoop that will rocket her to journalistic fame. In search of a story about celibacy she infiltrates St Peter's, a seminary for young men who are about to sacrifice earthly pleasures for a life of devotion and abstinence. What she unveils are nocturnal shenanigans in a cloistered world that is anything but chaste. And the high proportion of good-looking young men makes her research all the more pleasurable. But will she reveal the secrets of St Peter's to the outside world, or will she be complicit in keeping quiet about the activities of the gentlemen priests?

Confessional

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

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

Alison Tyler

Art historian Lissa and doctor Colin meet at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where they are both promoting their latest books. At the fair, and then through Europe, the two lovers embark on an exploration of their sexual fantasies, playing intense games of bondage, spanking and dressing up. Lissa loves humiliation, and Colin is just the man to provide her with the pleasure she craves. Unbeknown to Lissa, their meeting was not accidental, but planned ahead by a mysterious patron of the erotic arts.

Learning To Love It

Fredrica Alleyn

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

The Bracelet

Erotic Romance

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

Spirited adventurer Bliss Van Bon is set for three months travelling around South America. When her travelling partner breaks her leg, she must begin her journey alone. Along the way, there's no shortage of company. From flirting on the plane to being tied up in Peru; from sex on snowy mountain peaks to finding herself out of her depth with local crooks, Bliss doesn't have time to miss her original travel companion one bit. And when brawny Australians Red and Robbie are happy to share their tent and their gorgeous bodies with her, she's spoilt for choice. 
 
However, there is political intrigue afoot and Bliss finds herself caught between her lovers' agendas. Will she help Red and Robbie save the planet, or will she stick with Carlos, whose wealthy lifestyle has dubious origins?

Going Too Far

Sylvie Ouellette

Judith is an inexperienced young nurse, fresh out of college, when she is hired to work at the exclusive Dorchester Clinic, specialising in cosmetic care for its very wealthy clients. It isn't long before she realises the staff are regularly engaging in recreational pursuits of a decidedly lewd nature, with each other and their patients. 
 
From the nursing supervisor, the strange and commanding Mrs. Cox, to the clinic's well-toned gym instructor, Judith becomes enthralled by her new colleagues and the things they get up to. Learning to mix medical care with the special treatment that's on offer, she's only too willing to practice her new skills on the seductive Doctor Edouard.

Healing Passion

Charlotte Royal

A lavish erotic historical set in Japan... 
 
When Annabel Smith is driven to jumping overboard from her father's Elizabethan sailing vessel, she expects to die but is instead washed up on the shores of feudal Japan and into the hands of brutal warlord Nakano. Enchanted by her naked blonde beauty, Nakano takes her to Shimoyama, his fortress home where the Mamma San is to teach Annabel the art of giving pleaser. 
 
Shimoyama is a world of political intrigue and Nakano's brother warns Annabel of the dangers that surround her. Will she ever be accepted as a barbarian Geisha, given that her sexual appetites are ravenous and go against the rules?

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