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Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne, Australia. He travelled to England in 1937 and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He died in 1983.

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Alan Pollock is a playwright, translator and screenwriter. His numerous plays include One Night in November, Pigs and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Alan Pollock

Alan Root was born in London in 1937 but moved to Kenya as a young boy. He dropped out of school at sixteen but soon found himself behind the camera. He married Joan Thorpe in 1961 and together they produced an array of award-winning wildlife films including Baobab: Portrait of a Tree, commissioned by David Attenborough, Safari by Balloon, The Year of the Wildebeest and Castles of Clay, which was nominated for an Oscar. Alan won over sixty awards during his career, including an Emmy, three Lifetime Achievement Awards an OBE. Alan Root died in August 2017.

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Alan Shearer CBE  grew up in Newcastle, leaving home as a  teenager to pursue a career in professional football with his first  team, Southampton. He went on to  reach football stardom, winning the Premier League with Blackburn in  1995, breaking the world transfer record by signing to Newcastle United  in 1996 and achieving international success as the Captain of England.  Alan also holds the record for most goals scored in Premier League history.

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Alan Titchmarsh MBE is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend, Love Your Garden, Ground Force, Gardeners' World, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Spring Into Summer. He has written more than forty gardening books, as well as twelve novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award.

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Alan Unterman

Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker who was best known for his expertise in Eastern philosophies including Zen Buddhism and Taoism. He wrote over 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, the meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness.

Alan W Watts

Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

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Alan Watts

Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including the global bestseller The World Without Us, which has been translated into 34 international languages and was nominated for numerous awards. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times Magazine and many other places. Alan has worked on all seven continent and reported from 58 countries, and lives in western Massachusetts.

Alan Weisman

Alanna Mitchell

Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist and writer based in Spain. He writes regularly on cycling for the ‘I’, The Independent.co.uk, The Express, ProCycling and Cyclingnews. He has been reporting on the Tour de France and other top road cycling events since 1992. His first book was The Eagle of Toledo, a biography of cycling’s greatest ever climber, Federico Martín Bahamontes. He has also written Reckless, a biography of the ill-fated Luis Ocaña, the 1973 Tour winner and considered Eddy Merck’s top Grand Tour rival, and The End of the Road, an account of the 1998 Tour de France.

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Georgia Angelis

In eighteenth century Gloucestershire Lady Catherine Balfour is struggling to quell the passions which are surfacing in her at the sight of so many handsome labourers working her land. But she is also despairing of her husband's spendthrift ways. When he commissions aspiring artist Joshua Foxe to paint a portrait of the Balfour family, it is the last straw. However, Foxe is about to turn her world upside down. This man, whom she assumes is a mincing fop, is about to seduce every woman in the village - Catherine included. But she has a rival; her own wilful and haughty daughter Sophie is determined to claim Foxe as her own. 
 
This earthy story of rustic passion is a Black Lace special reprint of one of our bestselling historical titles.

The Intimate Eye

Being on the move can be an escape from convention, the eyes of those we know, and from ourselves. There are few experiences as liberating as travelling. So whether it's planes, trains and automobiles, ships or even a space station, you can count on the Wicked Words authors to capture the exhilaration, freedom and passion of modern women on the move. Original tales of lust and abandon guaranteed to surprise and thrill!

Wicked Words: Sex... On The Move

Scott

Richard is an English visitor in Hamburg, at a loose end until he meets Helena, the beautiful niece of Margaret Wagner. Together they lead him down the road to bondage, slavery and transvestism. It's all so easy, so pleasurable - until he discovers Margaret's darker side, and the strength of her hold over Helena. 
 
His plans to rescue Helena are thwarted when Margaret gives him to another of her business acquaintances for further training. This time he'll learn the real meaning of submission and obedience.

House Rules

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

Aran Ashe

Chosen to live a life according to discipline and subservience, the young Justine is introduced to a succession of lovers - each one having favourite methods of taking pleasure from her willing body. Pleasure which is often found through the demands of pain and submission. 
 
Presided over by her strict guardian, Julia, we follow Justine's initiation into a world of obedience, dominated by the less-than-genteel ladies and gentleman of the Edwardian well-to-do. 
 
Aran Ashe is also known for his popular series Chronicles of Lidir: Sagas of Erotic Domination

Choosing Lovers For Justine

Penny Birch

Naughty Natasha Linnett makes her kinky relationship with the late artist Phillippe Faucon (from Peach) a news story, and the money from the sale of his looted paintings leaves her comfortably off. Unfortunately for Natasha she arouses more interest that she bargained for. Whether photographed playing spanking games in Regent's Park or suffering serial sexual indignities at the hands of the gutter press, Natasha finds that life with the paparazzi on her tail in anything but sweet.

In Disgrace

Jessica must draw deep on the depraved longings of her imagination in order to protect herself from her perverse husband. Nothing is forbidden. No methods are too extreme. But when she's finished, everyone will know that pretty faces hide the most sinful thoughts 
 
The training at Cloughton Wyke Hydro is more severe than Prudence is prepared for, involving as it does strict discipline, tight rubber uniforms and an education in the application of bizarre and exotic treatments. 
 
Ruthless and beautiful, Hera leads the Black Garter with a merciless hand. Her elite group of prefects secretly patrols the Kilgrimol Finishing School for Young Ladies. They help her to administer cruel and degrading punishments whenever Hera deems it necessary. New recruits are subjected to humiliating initiations, but the treasured prize of acceptance makes it a sacrifice worth enduring. 
 
These are just three of the stories featured in the fifth volume of the very best of erotic writing from Nexus. Also included are stand-alone stories from Penny Birch, Aishling Morgan, Maria del Rey and Jennifer Jane Pope.

New Erotica 5

Extracts from the best of Nexus plus four original stories

Yolanda Celbridge

Sultry ebony beauty Nipringa, and innocent blonde Candi Crupper, are both English girls living in Brazil, and studying at Dr Rodd's Acadamy, with its traditional English regime of bare-bottom caning. they escape to Rio for romantic adventure, but find the boys there just as enthusiastic about spanking them. Fleeing to the comfort of a seaside villa in the far north, they find themselves in thrall of the whip-wiedling master, who enslaves them on his tulipwood plantation.

Punished in Pink

Jacqueline Masterson

Fudge and her mistress, Clarissa, belong to the Thames Valley Punishment Club, which puts on a series of kinky events at a refurbished army camp. Fudge is jealous when Clarissa seduces a young scaffolder, revealing his submissive side. 
But at least Fudge does not have to endure the camp for male re-education, where the Oxford Bluestockings, rivals of the TVCP, take measures to change Scott the scaffolder's tabloid-reading ways.

The Punishment Club

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

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

G C Scott

Harriet is a very special kind of agony aunt, helping clients to live out their bizarre fantasies of bondage and domination. When her servant Tom finds her tied up one day he decides to reverse roles, leaving her confused about her true desires. Harriet's friends are keen to see her satisfy her passion for servility with Tom, but she is now wary of him. Will they ever enjoy the delights of discipline together again?

Agony Aunt

Under normal circumstances, no woman as stunning Barbara Hilson would have trouble finding a man. But Barbara's requirements are far from normal. She needs someone who will take complete control; someone who will impose himself so strongly upon her that her will dissolves into his. 
 
Fortunately, if she can't find a man to give her what she wants, Barbara has other options: an extensive collection of bondage equipment, an imagination that knows no bounds, and, in Sarah, an obliging and very debauched friend.

A Matter Of Possession

Nineteen-year old Isabelle, a refined young woman has fetishistic tastes and a deep sexual yearning which she's yet to fulfil. The pleasures of domination and the female form are obvious to her, but now, in her first term at university, she's to discover that there are many more excitements of the flesh. 
 
As she journeys down the pathways of willing sexual degradation, Isabelle's sexual education is about to begin. 
 
Follow Isabelle's adventures in The Indulgence of Isabelle, The Indecencies of Isabelle, The Indiscretions of Isabelle and The Indignities of Isabelle.

The Indignities Of Isabelle

Tesni Morgan

An amoral and unprincipled - but charismatic and good-looking - young man calling himself Jack turns up to a Halloween party dressed as the Devil. The lady of the house is Kim Buckley, a beautiful but shy young woman who is vulnerable to the flattery of others, despite being married to a wealthy business consultant. Jack calmly announces he's the illegitimate and unacknowledged son of Kim's recently deceased father. She had no idea he existed. 
 
Feigning a brotherly interested in Kim, he is actually out to seek revenge on her for being the pampered only daughter of their rakish father. Things are complicated by the fact they have a mutual powerful sexual interest in each other and, although Kim is filled with shame and guilt at this unnatural obsession, she finds herself being drawn into his gameplan for success.

The Ties That Bind

Jilly Cooper

Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta's selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalowin the Cotswold village of Willowwood. 
 
Etta's life is transformed when she finds a horribly mutilated filly wandering in the woods. She names her Mrs Wilkinson and nurses her back to health. The filly charms everyone in the village, and when tests reveal her to be a spectacularly well-bred racehorse a village syndicate is formed to put the filly into training. 
 
Captivating vast crowds as she progresses from point-to-point to major races, she brings fame and fortune to the syndicate, until, at last, she is entered in the greatest jump race of them all. Can Mrs Wilkinson win the Grand National? And can Etta gain her heart's desire?

Jump!

Another joyful and dramatic romp from Jilly Cooper, the Sunday Times bestseller

Joyful entertainment from the Sunday Times bestseller

Esme Ombreux

When the sensations finally ceased Tess heard La Patronne saying, 'You see, my dear? Jem is never wrong. Tess will flourish in my little house.' 
 
'I have to agree,' the Chatelaine said, 'She is yours. For the time being, I assume I may punish her again before you take her away from Paris? You know how I like to put these statuesque blondes through their paces.' 
 
'Of course my dear. You may deal with her as severely as you wish. But do remember that for Tess the real punishment is being made aware of how much she deserves to be punished. In my House she'll learn the true meaning of shame.' 
 
Drawn from her sheltered life when her housekeeper Tess goes missing, Amanda goes to France in an attempt to find her. During her search Amanda meets Michael, an artist with bizarre sexual tastes who awakens in her a taste for the shameful delights of discipline and introduces her to a secret society of hedonistic perverts who share her unusual desires. 
 
Amanda revels in her new-found sexual freedom, voluntarily submitting to extreme indignities of punishment and humiliation, but does not realise until too late the full extent of the society’s depraved and perverted plans. Can Tess and Michael save her from the ultimate degradation the society has in store?

Amanda In The Private House

Expelled from school for spanking a head mistress, Amber Oakley finds herself in disgrace and is sent to work on a farm. Introduced to the strange delights of the world of pony-girls, Amber soon decides that she wants to be a pony-girl mistress. Unfortunately, others would like to see her at the other end of the reins, and when she loses a bet she's been groaded into by Morris Rathwell, a property developer who sees himself as the king of carting, she finds herself in a very difference role from the one she'd anticipated. Worse still, she finds the role more enjoyable that she ever would have imagined. Can she ever hope to fulfill her ambition?

A Taste of Amber

When Lorna Erskine inherits Hinton Priory - deep in the heart of rural England - she thinks she is set for a life of tranquillity and pastoral bliss. She's wrong. Her closest neighbour, Ryder Tyrell, is not the country gentleman he seems to be and is trying to lure Lorna into his elite cult of sexual excess. 
 
A ruthless businessman also has Lorna in his sights, and wants to build an exclusive leisure centre on her land. He sets out to seduce her - as does the darkly handsome architect who has been hired to restore the Priory; he has his own private reasons for wanting to possess her: body, mind and soul. The village is seething with intrigue, which can only escalate when Lorna discovers that paganism is thriving on her doorstep. Can she hold on to the Priory and her sanity?

Country Matters

Rosemary Maddox is TV's most popular gardening presenter. Her career and business are going brilliantly but her sex life is unpredictable. Someone is making dirty phonecalls and sending her strange objects in the post, including a doll that resembles her dressed in kinky clothes. 
 
And when she's sent on an assignment to a bizarre country house, things get even stranger. The owner of the house is a peculiarly eccentric and masterful character, and plans to add Rosemary to his collection of beautiful things.

Earthy Delights

Kerri Sharp

Black Lace has been the publishing sensation of the decade. This is the first imprint to recognise women's erotic writing as a genre and it has given women the opportunity to write their fantasies, using their language. Black Lace books have explored areas of sexual fantasy where other women's fiction has feared to tread. 
 
This is the first anthology of extracts from Black Lace with an exclusively contemporary theme. Seduction and mystery and darkly sensual behaviour are the key words to this unique collection of sensual writings from the female imagination. Worlds of secluded passion collide with unbridled erotic exploration, and scintillating characters delight in the thrill of total surrender to pleasure and decadent indulgence.

Modern Love-Anthol Erotic Writing

Robyn Russell

A stylishly sensual, erotic thriller set in the languid heat of an Italian summer. 
 
Attractive but stern Boston academic, Donatella di'Bianchi, is in Italy to investigate the affairs of the Collegio Toscana, a school of visual arts. But her efforts are hampered by one man, the director, Steward Temple-Clarke. She is also sexually attracted to an English artist on the faculty, the alluring but mysterious Ian Ramsey. 
 
In the course of her inquiry, Donatella's life is thrown into danger, but she receives help from Kiki Lee and Francesca Antinori. As the trio investigates the menacing mysteries surrounding the college, Donatella's new friends open her eyes to a world of sexual adventure with artists, students, and even the local police...

Full Exposure

Portia Da Costa

An erotic paranormal romance... 
 
At an archduke's reception, a handsome young nobleman falls under the spell of a malevolent but irresistible sorceress. Two hundred years later, Belinda Seward also falls prey to sensual forces she can neither understand nor control. Stranded by a thunderstorm at a remote Gothic priory, Belinda and her boyfriend are drawn into an enclosed world of luxurious decadence and sexual alchemy. Their host is the courteous but melancholic André von Kastel; a beautiful aristocrat who mourns his lost love. He has plans for Belinda - plans which will take her into the realms of obsessive love and the erotic paranormal.

Gothic Blue

Anna Lieff Saxby

An erotic 18th Century-set romp. 
 
The year is 1720 and Lady Celine Fortescue is summoned by her father, Sir James, to join him on St Cecilia, the turbulent tropical island which he governs. But the girl who steps off the boat into the languid, intoxicating heat isn't the same girl who was content to stay at needle work in a dull Surrey mansion. 
 
On a moonlit light, perfumed with the scent of night blooming flowers, Celine liaises with Liam O'Brian, one of the ship's officers to whom she became secretly betrothed on the long sea voyage. Their plans are thwarted , however, by her father and at the hands of Lord Odo Wraxall, a debauched rake with a penchant for nubile girls. Celine is thrown into confusion by Wraxall, whose arrogance and cruelty betray his preference for darker pleasures. 
 
Exotic and opulent, this story of indulgent luxury is stimulation for the senses and not without a wicked streak of humour.

Lord Wraxall's Fancy

Esme Ombriuex

When Olena, nubile and much-appreciated guest at the secretive flagellant community that is the Private House, is kidnapped, Supreme Mistress Jem Darke and her lover Julia, chief of the guards, are unusually at a loss as to what to do. But Talia, the fey, submissive but resourceful leader of the forest people, who live a bucolic but perverted life on the House's large estate, has evidence that leads to Madame la Patronne, Jem's rival in the arts of dominance. Jem, Julia, Talia and her lover Anne agree a plan of pursuit. Their actions lead Talia straight into deep sexual waters: how far will she be required to submit to Madame la Patronne, whose imperious sexuality knows no limits? And even if Talia's tormented odyssey brings her to Olena, will either even want to return?

Playthings Of The Private House

Lisette Ashton

Stranded alone and penniless in the heart of the Amazon basin, Emily thinks things can't get any worse. It is only when she meets the captain of the Amazon Maiden that her dark journey truly begins. The captain expects only one thing from his crew: absolute obedience. Insubordination is not tolerated; punishment is delivered swiftly and mericlessly. Captivated by the beautiful Emily and her arrogant defiance, the captain is determined to enjoy her submission. 
 
Trapped on board the boat, Emily is forced to submit to the captain's every carnal desire. Throughout the journey she learns the true meaning of servility and the true pleasure of subjugation. Aware that she in enjoying this discipline, the captain uses all techniques available to break her indomitable spirit. But beneath her mask of servitude, Emily is plotting revenge.

Amazon Slave

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

Adriana Arden

The privileged girls of the exclusive Fernleigh Risa Estate, in England, look down with contempt on the residents of shabby Cheyner Close, and wage a secret war of vandalism and harassment against them. But they underestimate the ingenuity and determination of those they so despise. When the residents strike back, the girls find revenge is both sweet and very painful.

Captives of Cheyner Close

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

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

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The First Festivals series invites children to explore the world's culture from the comfort of their home, encourages the development of hand-eye coordination and is recommended for children aged 2 and over.

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Foul Play

DICK FRANCIS was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys and author of forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), the biography of Lester Piggott and his own autobiography (The Sport of Queens). He was rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world. 
 
 Since his death, his son FELIX FRANCIS has taken over the literary reigns from his father and Dick's legacy lives on through the Dick Francis novels. The Francis flair is clear for all to see in these national treasure thrillers, and readers will appreciate the sporadic reappearance of beloved series characters Sid Halley and Jeff Hinkley.

Francis Thriller

Frank Behr

Once a Detective Inspector in the Nottinghamshire Force, Frank Elder has retired to an isolated cottage in Cornwall, and is trying to live the quiet life. The past, however, is never far behind him.

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Jean Plaidy combines imagination with facts to bring the French Revolution alive in this dynamic historical fiction series. From Louis XV’s debauchery to Marie Antionette’s demise, it is clear there was only one way this was going to end.

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