Alex Kapranos

Alex Kerr is an American writer and Japanologist whose previous books include Lost Japan and Another Kyoto (with Kathy Arlyn Sokol). He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan.

Alex Kerr

Alex Kershaw

Alex Kingston is TV royalty, celebrating 45 years in the business, from her debut in Grange Hill in 1980 to the title role (and BAFTA nomination) in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, starring in over 150 ER episodes and becoming part of Doctor Who folklore as River Song. Her appearance in Doctor Who was meant to be a one-off but she became a regular and remains a fan favourite.

Alex Kingston

Alex Kirk grew up in the seaside town of Cleethorpes, which has brilliant beaches and the best fish and chips in the entire world. 
 
He has worked in a fish finger factory, as a plumber, a gardener, an English teacher, and for the last twenty-five years as a screenwriter, actor and comedian. Alex has written comedy shows for both radio and television, as well as being part of the writing team behind the wonderful Paddington 2 and Wonka. As an actor he has appeared in many TV productions such as My Family, Fresh Meat, The Detectorists and Coronation Street. 
 
He now lives in London with his family and a cat called Jonesey. This is his very first book.

Alex Kirk

Alex Laird is a medical herbalist with more than 20 years' experience. Trained in biomedicine and plant pharmacology, she treats patients in the only NHS herbal clinic based in a UK hospital at Whipps Cross. Alex is a visiting lecturer, and has published clinical research, and is the co-founder of the charity Living Medicine.

Alex Laird

Alex Latimer is an author and illustrator living in Cape Town, which is why he regularly has to shoo baboons out of his lounge. 
 
Alex's book Lion VS Rabbit won the Hampshire Picture Book Award 2014

Alex Latimer

Alex Livingston

Alex Manson-Smith is a journalist and copywriter. She has written lifestyle features for The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Evening Standard and Observer, as well as award-winning commercials for Google, YouTube and Nike.

Alex Manson-Smith

Alex Marshall grew up in the area where London sinks into Essex. He's an award-winning journalist who has been writing about music and politics for over a decade, and who has been published in the Guardian and by the BBC, amongst others. He started investigating national anthems back in 2008. This is his first book.

Alex Marshall

Alex Maunder

Alex McBride is a criminal barrister. He is the author of the 'Common Law' column in Prospect magazine and has contributed to the New Statesman and various BBC programmes, including From Our Own Correspondent.

Alex McBride

Alex McCarthy was born in Cardiff and grew up in South Wales. An alumna of London Contemporary Dance School, she worked as a dancer and choreographer for a number of years on stage, TV and film. In 2017, following a career change and several years of writing, Alex began to write this novel. She has a daughter and stepdaughter, and lives in Wales.

Alex McCarthy

Alex Michaelides was born in Cyprus to an English mother and a Greek-Cypriot father. He has an M.A. in English from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. 
 
The Silent Patient, his first novel, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and debuted at no. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has sold more than 7.5 million copies worldwide. The rights have been sold in a record-breaking 50 countries and it has been optioned for film by Plan B. His second novel, The Maidens, was an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been optioned for television by Miramax Television and Stone Village. His third thriller, The Fury, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller, and a Waterstones Thriller of the Month pick.

Alex Michaelides

Alex Montgomery

Alex Morris

Alex North was born in Leeds, where he now lives with his wife and son. He studied Philosophy at Leeds University, and prior to becoming a writer he worked there in their sociology department. The Whisper Man was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and is being published in more than 30 languages.

Alex North

Alex O. Imas is Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago School’s Booth School of Business. He is the recipient of the 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Review of Financial Studies Rising Scholar Award, the New Investigator Award from the Behavioral Science and Policy Association, the Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award from the Society of Judgment and Decision Making, the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Alex O. Imas

Alex Owen

Alex Patrick was born in the Kentish town of Dartford in the South-East of England and has been drawing for as long as he can remember. His lifelong love for cartoons, picture books and comics has shaped him into the passionate children’s illustrator he is today. Alex loves creating original characters - he brings an element of fun and humour to each of his illustrations and is often found laughing to himself as he draws.

Alex Patrick

Alex Pavesi lives in Surrey, where he writes full time. He previously worked as a software engineer and before that obtained a PhD in Mathematics. He enjoys puzzles, long walks and recreational lock picking. His debut novel Eight Detectives has been published in more than twenty languages, and was picked by the Sunday Times and the New York Times as one of their books of the year.

Alex Pavesi

Alex Pellew

Alex Pole

Alex Renton is an award-winning writer and reporter whose career has ranged from theatre criticism, food writing and the investigation of child abuse to work as a political correspondent and war reporter in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is also the author of Planet Carnivore and Blood Legacy.

Alex Renton

Alex Richie

Alex Riley is an award-winning science writer and the author of A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It, his first book. He received a best feature award at the 2019 Association of British Science Writers Awards for his reporting on The Friendship Bench, a project that began in Zimbabwe in 2006 and has since provided mental health care to thousands of people in New York. Since leaving academia in 2015, he began writing popular science articles for magazines such as New Scientist, PBS's NOVA Next, BBC Future, Mosaic Science, Aeon, and Nautilus Magazine. He lives in Bristol.

Alex Riley

Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, then he became a graphic artist, then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally, he grew up and became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers and several screenplays, but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with designing games. Alex lives in Norwich.

Alex Scarrow

Alex Scott MBE is an award-winning broadcaster and former professional footballer. She helped Arsenal in their historic 'quadruple' season, in which they won all of their trophy competitions, and was later appointed as the team's captain. She represented England in 140 appearances with the Lionesses, retiring as the second most-capped England player across the men's and women's game. 
 
Alex is one of the UK's most in-demand presenters, appearing on The One Show, Children in Need, Sport Relief and ITV's The Games. In 2021, she made history as the first permanent female host of BBC's Football Focus. She is an ambassador for the BBC's mental health platform, Headspace, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of East London and University of Hertfordshire.

Alex Scott

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Phil Votel

Working-class Manchester: a seedy underworld populated in part by rough, butch security guards and clubowners. Amongst its denizens is Matt, recently discharged from Her Majesty's armed forces and now employed by the security firm Sureforce - a company ruled by an iron-fisted, well-muscled boss. Matt's got no complaints, though. It's good money and there are plenty of perks - including hanging with the beefiest, meanest, hardest lads in town.

Sureforce

Emily Durkheim

Tabitha went off the rails young and never quite made it back. Now she's wasting her twenties in the most enjoyable way possible - spending her lawyer father's money and living the high-life among the glittering young things of L.A. But on her 24th birthday, she discovers that this life is about to come to an abrupt end. Her father's had enough and gives her an ultimatum: grad' college by the time she's 24, or she's disinherited. 
 
Without credit cards, Tabitha finds herself enrolled at Adirondacks U, set in the wild mountains of the States' northern reaches. But Tabby still manages to discover temptation in the shape of Jake, a handsome senior, a rugged logger she meets in the woods and Mark, a professor.

The Miseducation of Tabitha Stone

Penny Birch

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

Aishling Morgan

Beautiful, voluptuous and supposedly innocent, K'Tai is also too headstrong for her own good. Obliged to flee her village in a hurry in order to avoid the application of a switch to her curvaceous bottom, she finds herself in a far worse situation, at the mercy of lascivious slavers, cruel priests and sadistic nuns, each determined to inflict, ever more severe punishments and indignities upon her. 
Part of the Scarlet Gothic series. Other titles include Whipping Girl and Sin's Apprentice.

Scarlet Vice

C Devonshire

The only thing Luke and Cassandra have in common is that they both work for the Government - he as a Director of Communications for the New Spectrum Party, she significantly lower down in the ranks. Serious and ambitious, he wants to change the world. She just wants to have fun. 
 
Cassandra, whose fondness for sexy shoes is exceeded only by her fondness for sexy men, is a woman who knows where she's going, and she certainly isn't going after Luke. But as Cassandra learns more about his mysterious past, her fascination with her new boss grow. She falls hopelessly in lust and vows that she will have him. Luke, however, is not hers for the taking, but knowing what she does about his private life, something has to give.

The Power Game

Rebecca Levene

Simon Winstone

Something very odd is happening on the university planet of Dellah, home to Bernice Summerfield, famed archaeologist, adventurer, raconteur and barfly. A long-ignored religion is rapidly gaining recruits. The faithful rejoice and talk of their God walking the land once more. And in secret rooms on campus, arcane arts are practised with dangerously successful results. 
 
Behind these apparent absurdities, something far darker is going on, something that has consequences for everyone.

Where Angels Fear

Juliet Hastings

Tess Challoner has made it. She is going to play Carmen in a new production of the opera that promises to be as raunchy and explicit as it is intelligent. But Tess needs to learn a lot about passion and desire before the opening night. Tony Varguez, the handsome but jealous Spanish tenor, takes on the task of her education. But when Tess finds herself drawn to a desirable new member of the cast, she knows she's playing with fire. If Tony finds out she's playing fast and loose with his affections, then life could begin to imitate art - with dramatic consequences. 
 
A gripping story of art, love and jealousy from Juliet Hastings - one of the most popular Black Lace authors.

Aria Appassionata

Conceit and Consequence follows Lucy Truscott and her three female cousins through a series of romantic entanglements- some more bizarre than others - with spankings and other assorted humiliations inflicted on the girls by the bossy Lucy on the way. 
Smuggling, swashbuckling and sodomy mix in a plot that's tighter than Mr Darcy's breeches. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga. Other titles include Purity, The Rake and Beastly Behaviour.

Conceit and Consequence

Devon,1939. Recalcitrant RAF officer Alexander Gorringe dreams of a cushy wartime billet. Together with his vindictive and perverted uncle, Reginald Thann, he devises a plan to have just that. Girls in uniform, military discipline and a very bizarre dairy farm feature in the latest story from the author of the Cream series. Titles in this series include Devon Cream and Peaches and Cream.

Cream Tease

Strange things are happening in the sleepy Devon spa town of Tawmouth, where women are having increasingly bizarre dreams. Are they the product of unfulfilled sexual yearnings, or do they herald the return of a fantastical prehistoric deity, as Nich Mordaunt, scholar of erotic pagan ritual, believes? 
 
Seaside smut meets the deeply perverse as peeping Toms, craven submissives and dastardly doms all face elemental forces far beyond their own imaginings. The perfect beach read!

Deep Blue

Julius Culdrose

Julius Culdrose has spent over four decades delighting in every aspect of the female bottom - the different shapes and sizes, the possibilities for presentation, the aesthetics, the uses - and now reveals his explicit experiences and frank thoughts. 
This is not only an epic journey to the extremities of bottom adoration, but will explore, reveal and tantalise the reader with the most highly detailed fetish literature actually written by genuine enthusiasts for genuine enthusiasts.

Derriere

When submissive minx Penny Birch finds herself chastised by the matronly Marjorie Burgess in front of her colleagues, the situation is so outrageously old fashioned that Penny assumes the older woman is playing an erotic game with her. Doubly humiliated when she is caught gratifying herself over the experience, only to find that Marjorie was entirely serious, Penny comes up with an unusually kinky face - and job - saving solution.

Fit To Be Tied

This classic book in the Penny Birch series features some of bad girl Penny's dirtiest antics ever. After going a whole month without doing anything naughty, she is desperate to be even more filthy, despite her imminent departure to Brittany where she is instructed to set up a university field course. Once there, her academic responsibilities get pushed aside for more deliciously rude indulgences. This time, however, she will encounter a French voyeur called Tom,whose penchant for dirty fun will shock even Penny and her playmates.

Plaything

Someone has been performing the Black Mass in an old, abandoned chapel at Stanton Rocks. The local priest, Tom Pridough, is convinced it was Nick Mordaunt, local high-profile pagan, and his friend, the stunning brunette Juliana. Tired of the churchman's confusion of diabolism with his own nature-worship, Nick too sets out to find out who is responsible, and all three become embroiled in a weird and perverse world of sex-magic beyond their darkest imagination. 
Part of the Nick Mordaunt series: fantastic fetish erotica featuring occultist Nick Mordaunt. Titles in this series include Natural Desire, Strange Design and Cruel Shadow.

Satan's Slut

A shiver passed through her body as she thought of what favours she might offer, and how she could hint at what she desired, yet still feign reluctance and into the most delightfully improper acts. She knew enough to populate her imagination with highly vivid scenes. A man was not strictly necessary, although she wanted one very badly indeed. 
In a foggy Victorian London, gambler Edward Trent manages to lose all his worldly goods and the right to Nell's virginity to the money lender Daniel Quilty. Charles Truscott rescues Nell from her fate but cannot resist taking advantage of both her innocence and her voluptous body, as does just about everybody she meets as she flees London for Plymouth with Quilty in pursuit. 
Part of the Truscott Saga series - historical erotica following the depraved adventures of the Truscott family from the eighteenth century onwards. Other titles in this series include Demonic Congress, The Rake, Purity, Velvet Skin, Conceit and Consequence, Beastly Behaviour and Portrait of a Disciplinarian.

The Old Perversity Shop

Henry Truscott is a dissipated rake even by the standards of the late eighteenth century. When the beautiful Eloise catches his eye, he expects either to be thrashed by her footmen and dumped in a ditch or to take his full pleasure in her magnificent curves. he gets more than he had anticipated, in every way, trading seduction and revenue and finally using her and her maids in an increasingly perverse manner as they are pursued across France by bloodthirsty revolutionaries. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga.

The Rake

Henry Truscott, hero of The Rake and Purity, returns in Velvet Skin to continue his habits of indulgence and dissipation. 
There are ample opportunities in eighteenth-century Devon for an imaginitive aristocrat to pursue his perversions. Even so, Henry manages to find himself in trouble - like being caught pony-carting on his own land by the local vicar, for example. But the fiendish, rapacious Lewis Stukely makes Truscott look like a monk - and Stukely has designs on Suki, Truscott's beguiling new servant-girl. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga.

Velvet Skin

Penny's friend Natasha Linnett is a minx, and when she's bad she's very, very good. When a dominant, wealthy American wine buyer takes an interest in Natasha, she realises she can pretend to secure for him some bottles of real Napoleon-era brandy. She doesn't realise, however, just how many are the bizarre and lewd sex acts in which she must collude to maintain the deception. Will Natasha manage to line her pockets as she wishes, or will she be caught out ignominiously like the bad girl she really is?

When She Was Bad

Penny Birch is currently the filthiest little minx on the Nexus list. 
All are equally full of messy, kinky fun and, frankly, no other erotic writer has ever captured the internal thrills afforded by the perverse shamings and humiliations her characters undergo! 
In Bare Behind, Penny discovers that a friend of her family, also on the fetish scene, may know more about her private passions than is good! In the search for him, she encounters the pop band Madman Klein, and she must submit to the their most perverse desires if she is to find her quarry!

Bare Behind

Truscott faces the prospect of living on his brother's charity. His efforts to make his fortune lead him along a path of debauchery and perversion, from stripping girls in a brothel to indulging three at once in a Belgravia drawing room. Meanwhile, his wife is pursued by the sadistic d'Aignan. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga.

Purity

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

Kristina Lloyd

A Gothic tale of suspense and submission, set in the Yorkshire moors 
 
A visit to Heddlestone, a remote village in the Yorkshire moors, changes librarian Kate Carter's life forever. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge and when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum, she leaves London and her boyfriend to take up the post. 
 
Jake, the strange and beautiful curator and puppeteer, draws her into his secluded sensual world, and before long she's sharing his bed and discovering a new and frightening side of love and lust. 
 
But Heddlestone is a village with secrets and Kate is haunted by a surreal holiday memory of a cool handsome man dominating a woman dressed like a crazy ballerina. The man is Eddie, Jake's brother, and when Kate is seduced by him and his reckless Ukrainian wife she becomes involved in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men, Kate moves closer to the truth of Heddlestone, sensing danger but not knowing if the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality.

Split

Mathilde Madden

An epic and fast-paced tale of lycanthropy and female werewolf hunters... 
 
Every full moon, Iris kills werewolves. It's what she's good at. What she's trained for. She's never imagined doing anything else . . . until she falls in love with one. And being a professional werewolf hunter and dating a werewolf poses a serious conflict of interests. To add to her problems, a group of witches decides she is the chosen one - destined to save humanity from the wolves at the door - while her new boss, Blake, who just happens to be her ex-husband, is hell-bent on sabotaging her new reltionship. All Iris wants is to snuggle up with her alpha wolf and be left alone. He might turn into a monster once a month, but in a lot of ways Iris does too.

The Silver Crown

Annabel Lee

When Melinda Carr inherits property from her Great Aunt Laura there are some surprises in store for her. Not only is it in Morocco, it's also luxurious, richly furnished and worth a small fortune. 
 
Her business affairs manager, Khalil, is keen for Melinda to make the most of her property. He's also intent on bringing out her wanton side, and giving her the opportunity to test her voracious sexual appetite to the limit.

Two Weeks In Tangiers

Natasha is feeling deprived of kinky sex. Unfortunately, she walks straight into the flabby embrace of the awful Monty Hartle, whose main joy in life is the humiliation of women. Before long, Natasha finds that she can't handle the filthy Monty, and that what her therapist, Gabrielle, really wants is not work-related at all! 
 
A powerful, believable story of `mischievious Natasha on a humiliating, exhilatating, wet-knickered thrill ride through rural France. Titles in this series featuring Natasha are: Brat,Temper Tantrums, Dirty Laundry, Peach, When she was Bad, In Disgrace, What Happens to Bad Girls? and Bare, White &amp; Rosy.

Dirty Laundry

When naughty Penny Birch is walking in the woods one day, she is surprised to find a couple pony-carting. Penny is so excited by watching this new form of adult fun that she has to pleasure herself on the spot. Realising how keen she is to discover for herself what it is all about, she begins to investigate this bizarre world of whips and harnesses, of crops and restraints. 
 
Firstly punished by the mysterious pony-girl enthusiasts for misbehaving in the woods, she is soon accepted into their fold after demonstrating her enthusiasm for being made to act in a lewd manner. But will she ever be able to win the highest accolade in their world of kinky games - the honour of being a pony-girl?

Penny in Harness

Lisette Ashton

When private investigator Jo Valentine is called upon to help a coven which is being forced out of its village, she is immersed in a world of orgiastic pagan ritual, lesbian SM and bizarre throwbacks to the days of sadistic witchfinding practice. The next volume in Lisette Ashton's Black series of bestselling erotica.

The Black Flame

William Doughty

Just why would Mary go back to David and his bizarre bathroom? Whatcould be crazier than designing and equipping a luxurious bathroom for the soapy, slippery domination of women? Yet she has returned to submit to watery domination, while dressed in fetish garments of plastic 
and rubber. And having seen the bathroom, can her friends - Jack, Carol and Faye - resist plunging into slippery submission?

Aqua Domination

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

Gabrielle Marcola

It's not a common occurrence that a gorgeous hunk ties you up, robs the house you're stayng in, and kisses you breathless. Unless you're Maggie Quinton, that is: savvy, sexy architect working on a remote island off Florida. In Maggie's case, the buff burglar keeps coming back in search of an item he claims the apartment's owner stole from him. 
 
Flustered and aroused, Maggie calls in her jet-setting sister for moral support, but flirty, dark-haired Diane is much more interested in the island's ruggedly handsome police chief, 'Griff' Grifford. And then there's his deputy, Cosgrove, with his bulging biceps and creative uses for handcuffs. Can the lovely sisters keep from uttering the terrible 'c' word - commitment - to men that are a little too wild to be good for them?

Bedding The Burglar

I Like Birds

I Wanna Be Your Girl

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

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Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides

Following a horrific car accident in which she was the only survivor, seventeen year old Mia is faced with a choice. Does she stay, living with her grandparents and her loving boyfriend, or does she leave? She makes a difficult decision, leaving  it all behind her, breaking Adam's heart. Three years later, and the pair find themselves thrown together in New York, reminding Mia of her past and everything that she left behind her. If I stay and Where She Went are simultaneously tragic and hopeful, exploring grief, romance and memory.

If I Stay

In Our Time

In The Night Garden

In Their Own Words

Ink and Iron

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Inspector Maigret

DI Tony McLean of the Lothian and Borders Police knows Edinburgh like the back of his hand - an invaluable advantage when simultaneously pursuing depraved and dangerous criminals, and dodging overbearing superiors. Alongside a few trusted colleagues like DS 'Grumpy Bob' Laird and DS Kirsty Ritchie, McLean is an unorthodox force to be reckoned with . . .

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Iron Seas

Charismatic, handsome, and fiercely loyal, Isaac Bell is a no-nonsense private detective at the Von Dorn Detective Agency. Travelling all over early 20th century America in pursuit of justice for his clients, chasing down a steam train in a sports automobile is all in a day's work for Bell. And while he's on the trail of thieves, killers, and sometimes much worse, he'll have to use his every last wit to stay ahead of those he seeks, and to stay alive. . .

Isaac Bell

Witness the political struggles and tragedies of Queen Isabella, King Ferdinand and their children as ambitions take over in a time of civil war.

Isabella & Ferdinand Trilogy

It's Time to...

Izzy Dobson

I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again

Mo Hayder's Jack Caffery series is not for the faint-hearted. 
DI Jack Caffery specialises in the most gruesome, twisted and terrifying crimes. Against the clock to find the killer before the next murder is committed, Caffery is young, unshockable and driven.

Jack Caffery

Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

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