Carlo Rovelli is an internationally acclaimed writer whose books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, Helgoland and White Holes, have been number one bestsellers around the world and translated into over forty languages. As a theoretical physicist, he has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time and he is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France.

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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

Ray Gordon

When young and sexually vivacious Sheena is dumped by her snobbish older boyfriend, she decides to get her revenge. So using her sexual prowess she sets out to seduce his three brothers. Her lewd language and loose behaviour prove irresistible to the men and before long she has bedded them all. But her goal of marrying into the wealthy family remains as distant as ever. In desperation, Sheena sets her sights on the father; but 'the Boss', as he is known by his sons, is determined to regain his family's honour and at the same time teach the wanton young woman a lesson in respect.

Indecent Pursuit

Penny Birch

Natasha Linnet has a weakness for older men, preferably those with sufficient confidence to take her across their knees. The directors of old-fashioned wine merchants Hambling and Borse seem ideal for the task, and they want her to work for them. It's an offer too good to refuse but she quickly finds that she is expected to give a great deal more than she had bargained for, to a great many more people and in a number of unexpected ways. Only the temptations being dangled in front of her make it possible to put up with what is being inflicted from behind. 
 
Part of the Natasha series, a classic Penny Birch romp set in the world of wine merchants.

Bare, White and Rosy

Normally, if a beautiful young woman comes to Penny Birch and asks to be taught the joys of a well smacked bottom, she would be only too happy to oblige. This time it's a little difficult, as the status and connections of the beautiful young woman wold make the tryst a scandal. But Pippa is not easily put off. To make matters worse, both Penny's girlfriends and sadistic diesel-dyke AJ, all want Pippa and aim to give her far more than a playful spanking.

Nights In White Cotton

G C Scott

Rhonda, Paul and Muriel form a love triangle with a difference. They are drawn together by their love of sex with bondage, and live a curiously intertwined life-in and out of one another's beds, now dominant and now submissive as the urge strikes them. Rhonda is the true dominant, relishing her control over the men and women she meets and takes into her circle. Paul finds himself attracted 
to her as a mistress, and at the same time he is drawn to Muriel, the submissive bank manager who loves to be restrained and ravished. They all meet at Rhonda's country house in order to fulfil their mutual desires for domination, submission, pain and pleasure

Whipping Triangle

Wendy Swanscombe

Fleeing the gathering storm-clouds of war in 1939, a party of British débutantes are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island, where they meet a distinguished French scientist claiming descent from the Marquis de Sade. But who is the Marquis de Sade? And what devil's brew is his great-grandson cooking far from the eyes of the world? Does he mean to use his beautiful and not wholly unexpected young guests as ingredients? In her ninth Nexus book, Wendy Swanscombe gets right to the bottom of all these darkly delicious mysteries.

The Island of Dr Sade

When Alison comes into money, she uses the small fortune to buy a country home. A house unlike any other she has ever experienced. From the discovery of a sinister playroom in the basement, to the strange men who call upon the house and request unusual and bizarre services. Alison begins to wonder about the previous owner. And herself, when she is compelled to oblige the visitors' demands. 
Both the mystery and Alison's alarm, ratchets-up another notch when she realises her country retreat was once a house of ill-repute, run by an elderly madam. And as she and her friend, Sally, sink further and further into committing depraved sexual acts with their guests, she becomes certain that the previous owner is still in control ...

Unearthly Desires

Yolanda Celbridge

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.

Sindi in Silk

Virginia Crowley

Robert and James are upstanding members of the community. They are young professionals with bigoted, conservative upper-middle-class girlfriends. When Michele - a gorgeous stripper at the notorious club Hot Summer's - sees Robert's shiny red new roadster, she is overcome by a desire to possess it. Manipulating his friends and neighbours with offerings of ever more sordid sexual delights, she engineers Robert's descent into a tangled world of erotic temptation. As his character degrades from that of an altruistic medical researcher into a drooling plaything around the manicured fingers of his keeper, Robert's fiancée and best friend try to help him; unfortunately, their involvement also subjects them to the irresistible lure of pretty toys.

Longing for Toys

Aran Ashe

Anya, a copper-haired innocent beauty is sold into slavery. Her husband, little more than a stranger to her, abandons her at the Castle. Here she is put into chains of gold and delivered to the Taskmistress for training. But not even the Taskmistress's possessive desire for her new charge can prevent news of Anya's beauty reaching the Prince. 
 
This is the first volume in the Chronicles of Lidir.

The Slave Of Lidir

The beautiful Anya, betrothed to the prince of Lidir, has set sail for his homeland. On the way, her ship is beset by pirates. Captured and put into chains, Anya is subjected to a harsh shipboard regime of punishment and cruel pleasures at the hands of the captain and his crew. When landfall is made on a mysterious island populated by dark-eyed amazons, Anya plots her escape. But she is unaware of the fate that awaits any man or woman who dares to venture ashore.

Pleasure Island

J D Jensen

"Our eyes were not permitted to look either to our left or rigth; our noses must always touch the cold marble;our rumps always to be thrust high and tightly back, our knees and feet widely placed. We would hear only th vague whisper of the Royal Sister's silk slippers as she walked slowly behind our sprawled feet. Sometimes we might just catch the faint sound of the split-bamboo cane brushing against her robes." 
Ruled by the Grand Lady, The Pavilion of The Divine Orchid Ladies is a dangerous place for sevants and concubines alike. Escape is impossible; survival an ever tenuous state. Neglected by the aging emperor, the Honourable Sisters resort to alternative but forbidden pleasures. And within this turmoil of petty jealousies, cruel perversities and formidable mistresses, the manslave Shani must so often serve as a plaything, lover, whipping boy, and so much else. His position is made even more precarious when he becomes torn between his devotion and fascination for His Royal Mistress, and his love for the maidservant, Li Mei.

Manslave

The Prince has been called away from the Castle and from Anya, his beautiful betrothed. In his absence Ildren the Taskmistress plots to regain her hold over the copper-haired, dark-eyed slave; and Anya disappears into the vaults below the Castle where she is at the mercy of the Taskmistress's harsh whims. 
 
The Dungeons of Lidir is the second volume of The Chronicles of Lidir.

The Dungeons Of Lidir

Britain, 1947. Schoolteacher Belinda Beaucui enters a twilight world of spivs, stolen nylons and flagellant parties and soon learns that post-war England is anything but austere. Teaching sultry girls in British Somaliland, meanwhile, requires rule by the cane. But when Belinda's prince enslaves her, she finds it is really her that craves a master's rod.

Belinda Bares Up

Ben Fraunce goes up to Oxford to read classics, and is sucked into the Society of Spartans: a cult of female domination specialising in the cruel punishment of innocent males, by bare-bottom flogging, and humiliating cross-dressing. When he is allowed by the Spartan dommes to spend his summer vacations on their Greek island, toiling as a naked slave, under their whips, or with his young skirted 
body used to satisfy their most lustful and decadent desires, he at last understands that no male is ever innocent.

Slave of the Spartans

Lisette Ashton

Librarian Justine is given a chance to acquire La Cost: an unpublised story that is supposedly the most disturbing work written by the Marquis de Sade. Justine's quest willl bring her face to face with extremes of punishment and pleasure. Certain to face sacrilege, sadism and subversion she knows there are no limits in the pursuit of forbidden reading.

Forbidden Reading

Jennifer Jane Pope

A secretive health farm on a remote Scottish island is the cover for an establishment devoted to the satisfaction of specialist tastes. Here the rich and famous can indulge their every desire, from SM pwer games to pony-girl carting, with perfect slave service and the utmost discretion. But why do so many of the slaves look the same?

Slave Genesis

Natasha escaped the troubles and pressures of modern life by retreating to the Channel Isles, where she plans a life of uninterrupted debauchery. But, she hasn't reckoned with the locals, who are more assertive than she bargained for, or the obsessively perverse Aaron Penshler.

What Happens to Bad Girls

Nicole Dere

Two musically gifted young cousins, Max (the girl with the boy's name) and Toni (vice versa) have been brought up under the tyrannous rule of Aunt Charlotte. Their lives are dramatically transformed when Charlotte gifts them to the charismatic Professor Labat, known as The Maestro. His talents extend far beyond his musical genius, and he prepares his protégés for a novel kind of serfdom, in which their skill is combined with erotic artistry to refresh the jaded palates of the wealthy clientele in The Pleasure Dome, mansion of the notorious Lady Letitia (Titty) Laycorn.

Instruments of Pleasure

Amanda Ware

'I demand several things from my slave,' said James. 'Total obedience and absolute silence unless I permit speech. You have already broken two of those rules, for which you will be punished.' 
 
The beautiful and submissive Caroline West is about to embark on a new life and a new career which will involve a sexual journey of pleasure and pain. Caroline and her new master, James, get married in a bizarre ceremony of fetishism and depravity. After the wedding, Caroline is introduced to a photographer and a film-maker who want to use her as a model for images of bondage and submission. It's an offer which excites both Caroline and James. 
 
Stern dominatrix Mistress Leyla is appointed as Caroline's new tutor in the art of subservience and Caroline easily falls under the dominating spell of her harsh new guardian. Once involved in filming, however, it soon becomes apparent that Caroline's former master, the cruel Clive, is involved in the production. Can James, Mistress Leyla and Caroline's new friends save her from Clive's mesmeric influence? 
 
This is the sequel to Bound to Obey and Bound to Serve.

Bound to Submit

Cedar View looks like any other sleepy cul-de-sac in the heart of suburbia. Trees line the sides of the road. The gardens are neat and well maintained. But behind the tightly drawn curtains of each house the neighbours indulge their lewdest and bawdiest appetites. It's not just the dominatrix at #5, the swingers at #6 or the sadistically sinister couple at #4 who have secrets. There's the curious relationship between the Smiths at #3, the open marriage of the Graftons at #7 and the insatiable lust of Denise at #8. Everyone on Cedar View has a secret - and they're all about to be exposed.

Neighbourhood Watch

Trixie, a widow, was petite, curvaceous, wealthy and sexually adventurous. Rolf, a widower, was tall, good-looking, even wealthier than Trixie and had been celibate for far too long. His son and Trixie's daughter made a handsome couple. Both relationships seemed to have been made in heaven, except that Rolf lusted after the daughter as much as he did the mother. Penny, he discovered, only looked pure. Beneath her innocent exterior, she was ten times as kinky as her mother. Penny was sweet, alright - as sweet as sin.

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