Alfie Small is a keen explorer, just like his older cousin, Charlie. And just like Charlie, Alfie is fearless! He loves adventures, speedboats, dragons and sword-fighting. He does NOT like wrinkly old pirates and interfering puffins. Unlike Charlie, Alfie always makes sure he gets back home in time for tea!

Alfie Small

Alfie Teale

Alfred Assollant was born in 1827. He was a teacher, journalist, writer and outspoken opponent of Napoleon III. He wrote more than thirty books over thirty years, including historical fiction, collected essays and a treatise on the rights of women, but only The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran, published in 1867, was a success. In the 1870s, his wife, son and daughter died in quick succession and Assollant found himself poverty-stricken. In 1886 he also died, all but forgotten despite the continuing success of Corcoran, in a paupers’ hospital in Paris. 
 
Sam Miller was born and brought up in London. He studied History at Cambridge University and Politics at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, before joining the BBC in 1986, for which he has worked, on and off, ever since. In the early 1990s he was the BBC World Service TV and radio correspondent in Delhi, and on his return to the UK in 1993 was the presenter of the BBC’s current affairs programme, South Asia Report. Later he became the head of the Urdu service and subsequently Managing Editor, South Asia. He was posted back to Delhi in 2002 and has remained there ever since. He is the author of Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity (2009), Blue Guide: India (2012) and most recently A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes, which was published by Jonathan Cape in 2014.

Alfred Assollant

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Alfred Hayes

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Tennyson

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Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood (1869 – 1951) was one of the most influential horror writers of the twentieth century. Transcending the boundaries of conventional writing in the genre, his tales are celebrated for their atmospheric descriptions, psychological depth, and their deep interest in phenomena outside of conventional human experience. A lover of nature, his writing is imbued with a mysticism and awe for his surroundings, and much of his work is concerned with the beauty and terror to be found in moutainscapes and dark forests. Blackwood's influence extends beyond horror literature, inspiring authors across various genres and with his evocative storytelling and philosophical insight.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ali Abdaal is a doctor, entrepreneur, amateur magician, and the world's most-followed productivity expert. 
 
Ali became intrigued by the science of productivity while juggling the demands of medical training at Cambridge University with building his business. While working as a doctor in the UK's National Health Service, Ali started to document his journey towards living a healthier, happier, more productive life online. In the years since, Ali's evidence-based videos, podcasts and articles about the human mind have reached hundreds of millions of people all around the world. 
 
In 2021, Ali took a break from his medical practice to focus full-time on his work popularising the science of human flourishing and high performance. Here, he reveals everything he has learnt from a decade studying the secrets of feeling better and achieving more.

Ali Abdaal

His Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi is the former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One of the most powerful economic and political jobs in the world, he held this post from August 1995 to May 2016. 
 
Prior to that he held a wide range of leadership positions in the Kingdom's national oil company, Saudi Aramco. He was the first Saudi national to be named President of the company in 1984 and became the first Saudi CEO in 1988. Al-Naimi joined the company, then called Aramco, as an office boy in 1947. A Bedouin, he was born in the deserts of eastern Arabia in 1935.

Ali Al-Naimi

Ali Campbell

Ali Cronin

After graduating from university with a degree in mental health, Ali Land spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia. Ali is now a full-time writer and lives in Scotland. Her first novel, Good Me Bad Me, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into over twenty languages. 
 
Follow Ali on Twitter and Instagram @byAliLand

Ali Land

Ali is a leading expert in spiralizing and launched the world-renowned blog Inspiralized.com.

Ali Maffucci

Ali McDowall is a designer, life coach, and creative mentor with a passion for helping others connect, reflect, and grow. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2008 with a degree in Design for Performance, she worked in the arts until becoming a mother in 2013. Her own journey then led her into coaching, where she now supports fellow creatives through mentoring, vision board workshops, and networking events that centre on open, honest conversation and inspiring panel talks. Ali lives in Bath with her husband and two children.

Ali McDowall

Ali Millar was born and raised in the Scottish Borders, and now lives in England with her husband and four children. She has an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Edinburgh Napier University, and has worked as a cultural producer for Summerhall in Edinburgh, for whom she has interviewed dozens of writers including Marina Warner, Rachel Cusk, Emma Jane Unsworth, and Etgar Keret. She has also chaired events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Ali Millar

Ali Pantony is a freelance writer and editor. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Grazia, BBC Three, Refinery29, Vice, Red and Evening Standard. Almost Adults is her debut novel. 
 
Ali was born in Maidstone, Kent, and lives in North London. You can follow Ali on Twitter and Instagram @alipantony

Ali Pantony

Ali Pye has illustrated more than 30 books, which have been published around the world. She is the author of several picture books, and the 'Harry Stevenson' young fiction series. Ali studied fashion at Central St Martins before taking an MA in illustration at Kingston University. She lives in London with her family, two guinea pigs and the world's greediest spaniel.

Ali Pye

Ali Recanati, the farmer's wife, joined Farmer J with a branding obsession, strong views on pickles and an eye for everything beautiful and bold. Now CMO and co-pilot of the brand, she brings the creative spark and mischief to Farmer J — from breakfast raves to the perfect field tray.

Ali Recanati

Ali Sethi

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Ali Smith

Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent, served on the front lines against Al Qaeda and gained an international reputation as a top counter-terrorism operative and interrogator. He has been profiled in The New Yorker and featured in books, newspaper articles, and documentaries around the globe.

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Pleasure. Pain. Decadent indulgence and darkly bizarre eroticism. 
 
It's all there, in a a sizzling collection of extracts taken from the best-liked Black Lace books. The accent is on strong female characters who have a sense of sexual adventure and a liking for adult fun. These girls kick ass! 
 
With the accent on contemporary settings and women who know what they want - in bed and in the workplace - The Best of Black Lace is a celebration of this most popular series of women's erotic fiction.

The Best Of Black Lace

Wendy Harris

Pam and Janice, bitter rivals since schooldays, now work alongside each other for the same employer. Pam's having an affair with the boss, but doesn't stop Janice from flirting outrageously with him. There are plenty of hot and horny men around to fight over, however, including bad-boy Flynn who is after Pam! Whatever each of them has, the other wants, and things come to a head in an uproar of cat-fighting and sexual bravado.

The Bitch And The Bastard

Juliet Hastings

An erotic historical set in ancient Egypt. 
 
Marked from birth with the symbol of Amun, the young, Naunkhte must enter a life of dark eroticism as a servant at his temple. She becomes the favourite of the high priestess but, when she's accused of an act of sacrilege, she is forced to flee to the city of Waset. There she meets Khonsu, a prince of the Egyptian underworld, whose prowess as a lover is legendary. But fate draws her back to the temple and she is forced to choose between two lovers - one mortal and the other a god!

The Hand of Amun

Crystalle Valentino

Venetia Halliday is a go-getting entrepreneur who's trying to make it in London's fiercely competitive restaurant business. Her new chef - East End wide-boy Micky Quinn - is tricking his way into her business and her bed. He's cheeky, well-built, horny and confident - and Venetia's polished and calm appearance is being ruffled by his rogueish charm. 
 
Venetia is determined that her Camden Town restaurant will take the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award. But with barriers broken down in every area of her personal life and wild sexual abandon on the menu, can she keep her mind on the job on hand, or will her 'bit of rough' snatch the glory from under her nose? 
 
Black Lace erotic fiction - the best adult stories and erotic books for women

The Naked Flame

Brigitte Markham

After an unsuccessful attempt at seduction by her friend Laura, Mary escapes to the French chateau where her flatmate, Philippe, is spending a holiday. The count at the chateau has some curious ways of entertaining his guests, however, and the naïve Mary and Philippe are soon initiated into new and perverse ways of loving. 
 
Laura, worried about Mary, follows her to France and joins in the bizarre games at the chateau. But what they don't realise is that the count harbours a terrible secret, which puts all their lives in danger.

The Pleasure Chamber

Lisette Ashton

Catering for every perverse taste available, the torture chamber is an S&amp;M club where no fetish is too extreme. When Sue visits, she realises that she cannot visit again - the intensity of her reactions frighten her. But others at the club will stop at nothing to share in her special education.

The Torture Chamber

Stephanie Calvin

Trapped in a loveless marriage to a brutal and peverse man, there is only one way out for the young and virginal Jessica. She must draw deep on the depraved longings of her imagination in order to protect herself. Nothing is forbidden. No methods are too extreme. She must use every opportunity the charms of her young body can win for her. But when she's finished, everyone will know that pretty faces hide the most sinful thoughts.

The Young Wife

Martine Marquand

The young Allegra di Vitali bored with life in her guardian's Venetian palazzo until the day sexual curiosity draws her to look at the depraved illustrations he keeps in his private chamber. Awakened to womanhood she tries to deny her new passion for the flesh by submitting to the life of a nun. 
 
The strange order of the Convent of Santa Agatha provides new tests and temptations, encouraging her to perform ritual acts with men and women who inhabit the cloistered world. As the Unhallowed Rites unfold, Allegra undergoes bizarre ceremonies before finally confessing to her own ravenous sexuality.

Unhallowed Rites

G C Scott

Richard and his German girlfriend Helena have cocooned themselves in the English countryside, to live out their private - and elaborate - fantasies of submission and domination. But their rural idyll is threatened by the arrival of Helena's aunt Margaret - an imperious woman with very strict house rules and some very shady friends, who always gets what she wants. And what she wants is Richard...

Whipping Boy

When the elderly Lord de Verney is killed in battle, his beautiful widow Rosamund finds herself at the mercy of Sir Ralph Aycliffe, a powerful knight who will stop at nothing to humiliate her and seize her property. He will not rest until he has enslaved her beyond hope of redemption. 
But there's a young squire about to come to the rescue. Geoffrey Lymington will risk everything to save the woman he has loved for a single night. Against the turbulent backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the battle for Rosamund unfolds. Who will prevail in the struggle for her body?

White Rose Ensnared

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories 
 
Outrageously sexy and deliciously decadent, Wicked Words short stories are the best in contemporary sexy fiction. 
 
The series is a showcase of writing by women at the cutting edge of erotic literature, pushing the boundaries of desire to bring you fantasies of unashamed indulgence. Fun, irreverent and arousing, this anthology combines humour and attitude with wildly imaginative, sensual writing.Lively and entertaining, seductive and daring. 
 
Wicked Words collections are the juiciest erotic stories to be found anywhere in the world.

Wicked Words

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories 
 
Outrageous sex and saucy seduction abound in the seventh volume of Wicked Words erotic short stories. Written by women at the cutting edge of erotic literature, the series is the best in contemporary sexy fiction. Full of arousing action, hilarious hedonism and wild encounters, this anthology combines imaginative writing with explicit indulgence, making Wicked Words collections the juiciest erotic stories to be found anywhere in the world.

Wicked Words 7

Esme Ombreux

Amid the vast acres of the Private House estate live the forest dwellers, led by the beautiful Talia, who is enthralled by a newcomer to the forest: a Whipmaker to whose discipline she readily submits. As the regime in the forest becomes ever more severe, the forest dwellers abduct Anne, the Mistress's youngest pupil, and a struggle begins for mastery of the Private House itself.

Captives of the Private House

Aishling Morgan

Peter Williams is a sales supremo who lives for the road. Infatuated by the inviting bottom on the cover of an erotic novel, Peter is determined to enjoy a spell with its owner, the lustruos Linnet, and her friends. Peter prides himself on driving a hard bargain, but with Linnet in his car, things get harder than he bargained for. 
Fry-ups, flagellation, hot tarmac and hotter sex follow as Linnet and her friends take Peter along a series of sexual byways that weren't even on his roadmap before. 
Part of the Nick Mordaunt series: fantastic fetish erotica featuring occultist Nick Mordaunt. Titles in this series include Natural Desire, Strange Design and Satan's Slut.

Cruel Shadow

William Doughty

Alice is Steve's demon dominatrix, and red-hot lover and friend. After a few years of trust, commitment and fantastic sex, the couple are invited to a very special party at the sumptuous home of the successful, dominant and very perverted Kurt. Alice's interest is piqued, and Steve learns the hard way that he does not know the extremes of Alice's sexuality quite as well as he thinks he does. Just how far does Alice's newfound taste for submission extend beyond the realms of SM fantasy into reality? And will Steve lose Alice to the assertive Kurt, or will he find the strength in himself to give Alice what she really wants?

Cruel Triumph

Tara Black

Student Judith Wilson lands a job at the Nemesis Archive, an institution dedicated to the documentation of perverse female desires, under the imperious Samantha James. Unable to accept correction at the hands of the Director, she is forced to resign. But one manuscript in particular has awoken her guilty fascination with corporal punishment, and leads her to its author and his obscure Rigorist Order in Brittany. The discipline practised there brings Judith's sexuality into a class of its own, and she returns to the Archive to bring her wayward former co-workers to heel.

Drawn To Discipline

Hilary James

In this, the sixth volume of Emma's story, Emma returns to London only to fall back into the clutches of her cruel former mistress, Ursula. Realising she has missed the bitter sweet delights of lesbian domination, she finally begins to enjoy Ursula's attentions - but this only serves to anger and humiliate the prince, who is still her master. He has plans for making her see the error of her ways - plans involving training her to be his personal pony girl, to race against the pony girls of the sadistic Sheik Farouk. But how can Emma hope to please both the Prince and Ursula?

Emma's Secret Domination

Beyond the bright lights of the fairground there is a mysterious world, hidden from the visiting crowds. Operating outside of the restrictions of the towns they entertain, the fairground's owners insist on indulging their lewd and base appetites whenever and however they please. Georgia and Holly are reluctant recruits to the fairground and they soon diescover the pains and pleasures of this perverse regime, as both women endure a painful lesson in its strict rules. It's a lesson they'll never forget.

Fairground Attractions

Anne Tourney

nfogeek Jordi can't break her addiction to her loaded laptop, her favorite source of secondhand stimulation. But when her laptop is stolen she's forced to get her fix at the library's computer terminals, and there she stumbles across a blog recounting the sexual adventures of a sultry love-addict called Dana. Jordi's and Dana's identity begin to mesh in bizarre ways and Jordi finds herself falling for Nolan, the insanely hot, renegade library page who's trying to help her figure out how she's connected to Dana. She's also drawn into a series of intense mind games with Steffan, an elusive older man who works at the reference desk and leads a secret life of his own. Meanwhile, Dana's adventures are growing wilder by the day, and Jordi can't stop slipping in to Dana's world to sample its stolen delights. Soon Jordi is way too busy to question her borrowed identity . . . until Dana steps up to reclaim it. Will Jordi be able to go back to the realities of flesh-life - and the possibility of true love - after spending time in Dana's sexy virtual skin?

Kiss Between My Lines

Antoinette Powell

Julia is an art conservator at a prestigious museum in New York. She lives a life of designer luxury with her Wall Street millionaire husband until, that is, she discovers the dark and criminal side to his twilight activities - and storms out, leaving her high-fashion wardrobe behind her. 
 
Staying with her best friends Zoe and Jack, Julia is initiated into a hedonistic circle of New York's most beautiful and sexually adventurous people. 
 
Meanwhile, David, her husband, has disappeared with all their money. What transpires is a high-octane manhunt - from loft apartments to sleazy drinking holes; from the glitziest nightclubs to the criminal underworld.

Manhattan Passion

To the unititated, Hillingbury seems much like any other dormitory home-counties suburb, but to the residents its a sexual playground of domination and submission. The women who run the social scene also run their submissives - or 'pets' - ragged. In the social pecking order, sexual domination equal social dominance. For Jeannie, newly arrived in the area, this leads to the discovery of her own submissive sexuality, but she doesn't think it's fair tha it should determine her place in the social order. Jeannie's a spirited girl, and the sparks tha fly ensure that the women of Hilligbury will find it harder than they thought, now that Jeannie's around, to keep up appearances.

Pet Training In The Private House

Penny Birch

Annabelle is the perfect mistress, and determined to prove it, claiming she can make a submissive woman yearn to be not just her plaything. but her property. Penny is talked into taking up the challenge, to be put through Annabelle's regime of elaborate sadism and to try and resist the pain, the pleasure and the mind games. At the farm purchased by Annabelle and her boyfriend, Penny is systemically brought low, made into a servant, stripped of her volition and her liberty, treated as a wild animal, and at last made into Annabelle's pet. By the end she is close to breaking point, and needs only to make the final act of submission.

Regime

Yolanda Celbridge

Stripped of her uniform for 'sexual outrage' solier nurse Lise Gallard is forced to endure corporal punishment in the Foreign legion woman's prison. But she is spotted there by dominatrix Dr Crevasse, who engineers her release of her own flagellant purposes.

Soldier Girls

Cat Scarlett

When Violetta receives an invitation to stay at a dream French chateau she finds herself drawn into a community whose members take their pleasures disguised beneath animal masks. However, she soon discovers a dark tradition of Gallic libertinage and medieval torture she had not imagined.

The Animal House

Innocent orphan Sophia joins the House of Rodings, a maid's training school deep in the Essex countryside, where she meets a cast of submissive and dominant females, all adoring or envious of her voluptuous bottom. Sophia thrives amidst the complex ranks, rules and punishments of her House's heirarchy until, saved once from poverty and penury, she willingly embraces degradation of a different sort.

The Correction Of An Essex Maid

Jacqueline Bellevois

When Richard Buxton is forced to leave the delights of 19th-century London, marry and run a country estate, he assumes that the pleasures of the whip are no longer his to be had. However, both the estate and his new wife provide unexpectedly perverse opportunities.

The Master Of Castleleigh

Christobel Coleridge

The city-state of Estra is thriving port. ruled over by a Sultan who finds relief from the pressures of power amidst a select bevy of intimate Companions. Carria, a mysterious and striking young woman, has to pass the schooling and selection, run by the Sultan's mistress J'nie. The training is very rigorous, and discipline is maintained with a firm hand. Carria, however, has her own agenda. When it comes to fruition, nothing in Estra will be the same again.

The Palace Of Pleasures

Featuring a fantastic collection of the best fetish in erotic fiction - close encounters in Roswell; stories from the historical and fantasy world's of Aishling's novels; a baroque vision of SM Hell; and a perverse sexual revenge exacted in a fishmonger's shop - Wenches, Witches and Strumpets, is an imaginative haven of sensual perversion.

Wenches, Witches & Strumpets

Fredrica Alleyn

Classic erotica from the very first Black Lace writer 
 
Held hostage by the infamous Trimarchi brothers, Fiona Sheldon and her friend Bethany must submit to the Italians' sophisticated desires while her husband Duncan attempts to find the money he owes them. But Duncan is more eager to free his mistress Bethany than his quiet wife.

Fiona's Fate

Erotic Romance

Alina Reyes

This novel is a frank and vivid account of sexual awakening. A young woman spending her summer holiday in a seaside town is drawn towards an inevitable sexual encounter with the butcher she is working for. This volume also contains the stories Lucie's Long Voyage and The Fatal Bodice

The Butcher

Little Princesses

Little Puffin Clothbound Classics

Little Red Train

Little Swan Ballet

Little Town of Marrowville

Little World

Lives of the Artists

Living Autobiography

Living World

Stella Rimington brings all her experience as the first woman Director General of MI5 to bear in a heart-stopping thriller series that takes us deep into a wilderness of mirrors where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted.

Liz Carlyle

Lizzie and Lucky

Lockwood & Co.

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter join forces in this seminal sci-fi series. 
Long Earth is series of parallel worlds that are similar to Earth, which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a "Stepper". The closer worlds are almost identical to our Earth but the further you get the more they differ. They all share one similarity: humans have never existed there, at least not as we know them . . .

Long Earth

Set in the turbulent eighteenth century, Lord John is the lonely, tormented and courageous English officer first seen in the Outlander novels. He is a man who fights for the crown, his honour and his own secrets.

Lord John Grey

Lore Olympus

Lorien Legacies Reborn

Lost Boys

Lost Soul Series

Lottie

Lottie Brooks

Love & Hockey

Love in the Fast Lane

Love’s Academic

Meet Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and member of 15th century Rome's most notorious family. Scandal and tragedy follow her everywhere as she struggles to choose between love and loyalty.

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