Aemilia Lanyer

Aeneas Gunn

Aerosmith

Aeschylus

Aesop lived in the early sixth century BC on the island of Samos, which lies off the coast of modern Turkey. He originally came from Thrace which was a separate country in those days, though it now forms part of Greece and Bulgaria. Very little is known about his life except that he worked as a slave on Samos for a master called Iadmon, and that he became a very famous storyteller. He was so famous that almost any fable which could have been told by him became attributed to him.

Aesop

Afsaneh Knight

Afsaneh Moqadam

Afua Hirsch is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. She is the author of Brit(ish), the Sunday Times bestseller that explores Britishness, identity and belonging, for which she was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. She co-presented Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson. She is the presenter of the Audible podcast series We Need To Talk About the British Empire, and Africa Rising, an ongoing flagship series about art and culture for the BBC, through her production company Born in Me Productions. She is a longtime columnist for the Guardian and is a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

Afua Hirsch

AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS is an author, blogger and international speaker who inspires audiences around the world. She has spoken at many corporations and conferences, such as Nike Women, Starbucks,Time Inc., Virgin, Johnson &amp; Johnson and the American Heart Foundation. She was born in Athens and trained in London at RADA before gaining a Master’s in psychology at the University of Santa Monica. She has collaborated with her sister, Arianna Huffington, to develop talks and seminars, and has worked with the Oprah Winfrey network. She is currently hosting a new podcast series in collaboration with The Huffington Post, entitled ‘Sundays with Agapi’, which includes guided meditations and interviews with prominent guests. She lives in Los Angeles.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Agatha Christie

Aggie MacKenzie

Aghnia Mardiyah is a London-based Illustrator and Character Designer with a passion for children's books and animation. She is drawn to fun, bright and vibrant colours. When she isn't disappearing under piles of work, she loves to travel! Exploring foreign places, exciting new sights and sensations is what inspires her the most!

Aghnia Mardiyah

Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, Boston Review, and penned a monthly column for the Point. From 2019 to 2020, she held a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the research that contributes to this book.

Agnes Callard

Agnes Jekyll

Agnes Bertha Marshall (24 August 1855-29 July 1905) was an English culinary entrepreneur who became a leading cookery writer, dubbed the 'Queen of Ices'. Her 1888 cookery book included a recipe for 'cornets with cream', possibly the earliest publication of the edible ice cream cone. Marshall was born in Walthamstow. She wrote four books: Ices Plain and Fancy: The Book of Ices (1885), Mrs A B Marshall's Book of Cookery (1888), Mrs A B Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes (1891) and Fancy Ices (1894).

Agnes Marshall

Agnes Prus

Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan. His work has been published in The White Review, The Rumpus, Litro, 3:AM Magazine, and Asymptote amongst other places. His piece 'Haunted Home' won the 2016 Stack award for best non-fiction for The Outpost, runner-up in the Lifted Brow &amp; RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, and he was longlisted for the 2017/2018 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Hyper is his first novel.

Agri Ismaïl

Aharon Appelfeld authored more than 45 acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction and received many international awards including the MLA Commonwealth Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the prix Médicis étranger, the Israel prize, and the Nelly Sachs prize. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine) in 1932, he survived the Holocaust and passed away in Israel in 2018.

Aharon Appelfeld

Ahmadou Kourouma

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and human rights activist based in London. He is the co-founder and director of We Are Not Numbers and a journalist with Palestine Deep Dive. Ahmed holds a degree in English Literature from Al-Azhar university in Gaza, and an MA in International Journalism from Leeds University, where he was a Chevening Scholar. 
 
Pam Bailey is a social-justice activist and journalist based in Washington DC. She lived and worked in the Gaza Strip following the 2008/9 Israeli assault, and co-founded We Are Not Numbers. Today, in addition to her ongoing dedication to the Palestinian cause, she dedicates herself to two nonprofits that advocate for people detained in American prisons -- including one she co-founded in 2020, called More Than Our Crimes.

Ahmed Alnaouq

Ahmed Errachidi

Ahmed Rashid

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Ahron Bregman is the author of four books about Israel and the Arabs: The Fifty Years War (with Jihan el Tahri), Israel's Wars, A History of Israel and Elusive Peace. He teaches at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

Ahron Bregman

Ai Qing is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets, whose free verse was influential in the development of new poetry in China.

Ai Qing

Ai Weiwei

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

Aidan Chambers

Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. Langrishe Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. His second novel, Balcony of Europe, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 and a collection of shorter fiction, Flotsam and jetsam, in 1996. Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of the Higgins Bestiary which concludes with this volume.

Aidan Higgins

Aidan Mathews

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Evie Hunter

When reporter Abbie Marshall needs to escape Honduras, a private jet carrying a Hollywood A-lister is her only way out. She has a ride home with Irish actor Jack Winter - notorious womanizer and all round bad boy. Having little interest in Hollywood, Abbie is shocked to be shaken to the core by Winter's blazing beauty and provocative mind. 
 
After the plane's nose-dive into the remote rainforest forces them to fight for survival, Abbie catches tantalizing glimpses of the complicated man behind the movie star image. And the more she sees of him, the more he touches some primal part of her that she is determined to suppress. But after a moment of terror leads to a devastating encounter with Winter's shadow side, Abbie's detachment is shattered. 
 
On returning to normal life, Abbie cannot forget what happened between them, nor ignore the shocking rumours about the star's private life. Her struggle to make sense of her torment leads straight back to Winter, who is just as obsessed by her. But if they are to have a relationship, Abbie knows she must embrace his hidden desires ... and accept her own. 
 
No longer caring about anything but their intoxicating love affair, Abbie is drawn deeper into the dark heart of Winter - and the secret that threatens to destroy everything ...

The Pleasures of Winter

Sylvia Day

The Crossfire series is a quintet that follows the emotional and romantic journey taken by Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell. A number one internationally bestselling series, the Crossfire books are available in forty territories . . . and counting.

Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction . . . my every desire . . . mine. 
 
My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too painful . . . except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. 
 
We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession . . .

Reflected in You

A Crossfire Novel

Michelle M Pillow

With a dream job, great roommates and a wonderful boyfriend, Jane Williams has everything her heart desires – that is until her vicious social rival, Vanessa, finds out her most humiliating secret and sets about bringing her social world crashing down. When her boyfriend's senator father hears of the scandalous secret, Jane is likely to lose not only the gorgeous Dean but also her hard-earned social credibility. 
 
There's only one way for her to avenge herself: by playing Vanessa at her own game. Vanessa once stole Jane's man, so she is going to do exactly that. But Jane is still in love with Dean. With no social integrity in tact, just how far is she willing to go in order to exact retribution and how much is she willing to risk before she loses it all?

Fierce Competition: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Sylvain Reynard

One man's salvation, one woman's sensual awakening . . . 
 
Gabriel Emerson is a man tortured by his dark past. A highly respected university professor, Gabriel uses his notorious good looks and charm to lead a secret life of pleasure where nothing is out of bounds. 
 
Sweet and innocent, Julia Mitchell enrols as Gabriel's graduate student and his immediate attraction to her, and their powerful and strange connection, threatens to derail his career. Wildly passionate and sinful, Gabriel's Inferno is an exploration of the intense power of forbidden love.

Gabriel's Inferno

Two lovers bound by their darkest desires... 
 
Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate but clandestine love affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell and is teaching her the sensual delights of the body, and the raptures of sex. 
 
But their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics and jealous ex-lovers. Can their love survive against all odds and will Gabriel fight to keep Julia?

Gabriel's Rapture

Who said three’s a crowd? 
 
In this delightfully wicked anthology, you’ll find threesomes of all types. Whether it’s two men and a woman, two women and a man, or same-sex ménages, this collection of sexy short stories is sure to please. 
 
Black Lace Books: the leading imprint of erotic fiction for women

Hot Menage

Justine Elyot

I have always been drawn to hotels. I love their anonymity. The hotel does not care what you do, or with whom. 
 
The Hotel Luxe Noir is a haven for sensual pleasures. But as young receptionist Sophie Martin witnesses the hedonistic liaisons of the staff and guests can she also learn to master her own desires…? 
 
On Demand is an ebook sensation now back in print with two bonus short-stories.

On Demand

Madelynne Ellis

Another wonderfully decadent piece of historical erotica featuring a very Gothic menage... 
 
1800 - Three years after escaping to London with her bisexual lovers, Bella Rushdale wakes one morning to find their delicate ménage a trois about to shatter. Vaughan, Marquis of Pennerley has left abruptly and without any explanation. 
 
Determined to reclaim him and preserve their relationship, Bella pursues him to his family seat on the Welsh Borders, where she finds herself embroiled in his preparations for a diabolical gothic celebration on All Hallows Eve - a phantasmagoria. Among the shadows and phantoms, Bella and her lovers will peel away the deceits and desires of past and future. 
 
The sequel to A Gentleman's Wager

Phantasmagoria

Louisa Francis

In Sydney, Australia, in the late 1870s, vivacious young Melanie marries 
a man old enough to be her grandfather. On a trip to England, their entire journey 
is cut short by his sudden death. She inherits his entire fortune unaware 
that her late husband has a grandson in England who is very much alive 
and is planning to contest the will. 
 
The louche and hedonistic Ric Lidell and his promiscuous half-sister travel 
to Australia in a bid to get their hands on some of the money. Ric conceals 
his identity from Melanie so he can use his satanic good looks to charm her. 
However, Melanie’s former lover, the rich South African Peter van Heuren, 
is unwilling to allow the highly-sexed young widow to be taken from 
him and concocts a plan to discredit her other suitors. 
Who will win Melanie’s heart and their way to her fortune?

Contest Of Wills

1870s Australia. Dita Jones is engaged to Jonathon Grimshaw, the most eligible bachelor in Sydney's polite society. When the young couple are shipwrecked, Dita is thrown into a world where survival instincts and natural urges triumph over civilised manners. 
 
After they're rescued Dita cannot readjust to society life, and fellow castaway Matt Warrender cannot forget the woman who has inflamed his lust. However, an ironic twist of fate throws Dita into the path of wealthy stud farmer, Jas McGrady, who claims her for his bride. 
 
But Dita's new husband has a dark secret and his respectability is a cover for malevolence and hatred. In the rugged terrain of outback Australia, kidnapping, murder and revenge are played out with dramatic consequences - and the path of true love is destined not to run smoothly.

Desire Under Capricorn

Ginny Leigh is caught in a stifling marriage but that doesn't stop her from enjoying the attentions of the virile young men in the neighborhood. 
 
Dan Berrigan is on the run. Previously a successful gold miner, he's forced to flee Melbourne when he's falsely accused of a serious crime. 
 
In Wattle Creek, the headstrong Ginny is making life-changing plans. When she puts in a bid to put an old staging inn - a watering hole for ruffians and gold prospectors - it's only a matter of time before Dan and Ginny meet. Their lust for each other is immediate, and when they find gold in the hills, their happiness and prosperity seem certain. But Ginny's salacious past is waiting to catch up with her. Can she outwit those determined to ruin her with scandal?

Gold Fever

1850s Australia was a harsh place. The manners of courtship left a lot to be desired and gentlemen were few and far between. When farmer Nat Durrant declares Bridie Flannagan unsuitable to be to be his wife, the feisty Irish lass vows to make him regret his words. It was he who taught her how to take pleasure from men and it's him she wants to marry. 
 
However, the dishonest activities of Bridie's father, which brought her to the notice of Nat Durrant, also bring her into contact with powerful outlaw Lucas Martin. Taken hostage to aid Lucas's escape from the law, Bridie finds herself torn between lust and honor.

Hostage To Fantasy

Sylvie Ouellette

When Joanna is sent away on business to Japan, she anticipates nothing unusual. However, the timing couldn't be worse: she senses that someone at work is scheming behind her back and she cannot afford to be away from her office for fear of being upstaged. On a personal level, she's just beginning to get somewhere with Harry, a young and attractive solicitor she's been pursuing for some time. 
 
As soon as she arrives in Tokyo, her sensuality is put to the test. Enigmatic messages followed by singular encounters with strangers who seem to know her every desire. She is constantly aroused, but never entirely sated. As she gradually gives in to the magic of Japan - its people and its ways - she learns that she is becoming involved in a case of mistaken identity, erotic intrigue and mysterious seduction.

Jasmine Blossoms

In the early 1600s, France has established a bustling new colony 
in North America. New trade, exploration and agriculture attract many 
rugged men in search of adventure and fortune. French women 
are being sent to the new colony and a generous dowry is promised 
by the King to settlers looking for a wife. 
 
Laure is one such young woman. Until recently she has been under 
the care of the decadent Monsieur and Madame Lampron, who 
have taught her a lot in the way of indecent but delightful behaviour. 
Now she is in the new country and is expected to behave as a young 
Catholic girl should. But Laure's lusty disposition is destined to get 
the upper hand and it's only a matter of time before she's off on a 
mission of seduction and adventure. 
 
By the author of Healing Passion.

The King's Girl

Thom Wolf

Best-selling novelist Glenn Holden has an appreciation for the rougher side of sex. But when a handsome stranger breaks into his house claiming to be a character from one of Glenn's own thrillers, the author is suddenly thrust into a surreal sexual adventure that goes further than the concoctions of his own dirty mind - a bizarre world full of mysterious men and even wilder sex.

Words Made Flesh

As soon as college student Sasha Matthews spotted Trevor Kingston she knew it was fate. He's everything a girl could want – handsome, charming and rich. But Mr Perfect's façade crumbles when he breaks her heart… 
 
Finding comfort in the arms of the moody, but hard-working Kevin Merchant, Sasha’s long hours in the lab turn into tempting nights of seduction. Will life teach this student lessons she never expected to learn? 
 
Book four in the Matthews Sisters series.

Degrees of Passion: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Eden Bradley

Are you ready to surrender? 
 
When Rowan Cassidy meets Christian Thorne in an exclusive club, he challenges everything she’s ever believed about herself. 
 
He then makes an outrageous proposal: give herself over to him completely for thirty days and discover her most secret fantasies and her true nature. 
 
Give in to absolute pleasure with Eden Bradley’s romantic, liberating and utterly addictive debut novel.

The Dark Garden

Emma Holly

Sex, lies and murder… 
 
Frankie Smith is having a bad day: her boyfriend has just dumped her and she’s just found a dead body behind her café. 
 
Still, things look up when sexy local detective, Jack West, turns up to investigate. And when a stranger turns up at the diner looking for work,Frankie soon finds herself juggling two men and an increasingly kinky sex life…

All You Can Eat

Emma Hawthorne

This new collection of sensational, sexy stories from Emma Hawthorne that will arouse and, occasionally, even shock you. This volume contains brand new stories from women who ignore the rules, unleash their sexual fantasies and find out just how wildly delicious sex can be when you take it to the limit – and, sometimes, beyond…. 
 
Features: 
 
Darkroom – Jen and her boyfriend explore group sex 
 
Doctor in the house – Debbie’s visit to A&amp;E results in a romp with a doctor which gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘bedside manner’…. 
 
Mistress Millie – when Millie meets fit farmhand Jake she knows exactly how to put him in his place... 
 
Mouth to mouth -rescued from the sea by two hunky Californian lifeguards, Amy gets a lot more than she bargained for... 
 
Kick the habit – Lisa’s retreat to a convent leads to a romp with 21-year-old virgin Sister Mary. 
 
Big Ben – Tourist Marie has an exotic adventure on an open-top bus... 
 
Juicy – Samantha is about to discover her husband and his bestfriend are hiding a sexy secret... 
 
Circus Circus – some girls dream of running away to the circus, Louise fantasises about the muscular trapeze artists. And now her fantasy is about to come true... 
 
Festival fever – Leanna shares a tent with her friends Dee and Mar. And they get up close and very personal... 
 
Top Brass – She’s the boss’s wife and Cindy knows she shouldn’t say no to any of her demands...

Black Lace Quickies: Girls on Top

A collection of erotic short stories

Regina Perry

Everyone’s heard the Katy Perry song, but have you ever been tempted...? 
 
If so, you’re not alone: most heterosexual women have had same-sex fantasies, and this diverse collection of short erotic fiction takes us way beyond kissing. 
 
Indulge yourself in these kinky girl stories from around the globe and women from every walk of life and culture who are curious and eager to explore their full sexuality...with each other. 
 
Black Lace Books: the leading imprint of erotic fiction by women for women 
 
Contributors include: 
 
C. Margery Kempe 
Lousia Bacio 
Inara Lavey 
Samantha Jones 
K. Ann Karlsson 
Kilt Kilpatrick 
Nola Erus 
Farrah J. Phoenix 
Jen Bluekissed 
L.A. Mistral 
Lucy Felthouse 
Regina Perry

I Kissed a Girl

Barry Unsworth

For five hundred years a statue of the Madonna has watched over Venice. Now, dulled by time and pollution, she is prepared for restoration. As Simon Raikes immerses himself in the painstaking task of cleaning and repairing, he is inexorably drawn to the stories of violence and lust which have surrounded this stone virgin. 
 
Simon’s investigations lead him to Chiara Litsov, the wife of a renowned sculptor. A dangerous attraction develops between them and it appears inevitable that once again the stone virgin will bear witness to passion, betrayal and murder.

Stone Virgin

Portia Da Costa

Once she had got over the initial shock of the young man’s nudity, Claudia allowed herself to breathe properly again... 
 
When Claudia finds a sexy stranger near her home she discovers that he has lost his memory along with his clothes. 
 
Having turned her back on relationships since the death of her husband, Claudia finds herself scandalising her friends by inviting the stranger into her home and into her bed... 
 
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep

The Stranger: Black Lace Classics

Elizabeth Gage

Three unforgettable characters whose lives collide in a tangle of ambition, fantasies and dark appetites. 
 
Jill Fleming rose from a nightmare childhood to become a beautiful predator who enticed men and women, always leaving behind a wake of aching desire, and always looking ahead... 
 
Leslie Chamberlain thought only success at the nation's hottest ad agency could satisfy her, until one man's velvet caresses became an addiction that would forever change her glittering dream... 
 
Jordan Lazarus had a razor-sharp mind, a vast business empire, and gallery of willing seductresses. But a long-buried obsession threatened to blaze white-hot again... 
 
From the cutthroat corporate towers of Chicago, Detroit and New York, to Long Island's luxurious gold coast, where scandal smoulders restlessly beneath the polished veneer of wealth, these three will come together...reckless players in a high-stakes game, risking the ultimate betrayal, and abandoning the rules for the fruits of forbidden passion.

Intimate

If you can't stand the heat... 
 
Aspiring chef Zoe Matthews has lost her job and all hopes of a satisfying future. If that wasn't bad enough, she's just publicly shot down her one and only chance at culinary redemption. 
 
Restaurant mogul Jackson Levy is determined to teach the rude city-slicker a lesson in manners. What she thinks will be a head chef position at one of his fancy restaurants turns out to be a small town diner. Can this city girl and a country boy find common ground? Or is this just a recipe for disaster? 
 
Book three in the Matthews Sisters series. Originally published as Recipe For Disaster.

Her New Boss: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Edith Templeton

An extraordinary novel of psycho-sexual entanglement - banned for indecency in England in 1966. 
 
Post-war London. Louisa, a smartly dressed young woman in the midst of a divorce, meets a charismatic man in a pub, and within an hour has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with Richard Gordon. 
 
Gordon, a psychiatrist, keeps Louisa in his thrall with his almost omniscient ability to see through her, and she is equally gripped by the unexpected pleasure of complete submission. Subjecting herself to repeated humiliations at his hands, but quite unable and unwilling to free herself from his control, Louisa and Gordon sink further and further into the depths - both psychologically and sexually. 
 
Templeton's prose exquisitely captures one of the most unusual and disturbing love stories ever written.

Gordon

I just want a taste of you. Or a touch. My fantasies about you plague my every waking hour. My only comfort is imagining that similar fantasies might obsess you too. 
 
When young librarian Gwendolynne Price finds increasingly erotic love notes to her in the suggestion box at work, she finds them both shocking and liberating. 
 
But who is her mystery admirer and how long will he be content to just admire her from afar...? 
 
A dark sensual romance to fuel your fantasies, as recommended in Tracey Cox’s ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ steamy reading list in the Daily Mail.

In Too Deep

Kate Lace

'Sexy and fun, this addictive book will keep a smile on your face all day. Jilly Cooper in a boat - oar-some!' Fabulous Magazine 
 
'This fun, steamy story is a perfect read in the lead up to the Games' Closer 
 
'Just the right amount of posh and sex to make it a worthy bonkbuster... if you love Made in Chelsea, you need this in your life' heat

E L James

All three books in the phenomenally bestselling Fifty Shades trilogy, now a series of major films. 
 
Fifty Shades of Grey 
When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man, and excited when she realises that Christian wants her too. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Christian keeps hidden away from public view... 
 
 
Fifty Shades Darker 
Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Ana Steele has broken off their relationship. But when Christian proposes a new arrangement, she cannot resist. Soon she is learning more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding lover than she ever thought possible... 
 
 
Fifty Shades Freed 
Anastasia Steele always knew that loving Christian Grey would not be easy, and being together poses challenges neither of them had anticipated. But, finally together, they have love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of infinite possibilities. But just when it seems that they really do have it all, tragedy and fate combine to make Ana's worst nightmares come true...

Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed

Georges Bataille

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Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, this is a novel torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors, and is one of the twentieth century's great nihilist works.

Blue of Noon

In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is the story of a prostitute who calls herself God, and The Dead Man, published in 1964 after Bataille's death, is a startling short tale of cruelty and desire. This volume also contains Bataille's own introductions to his texts as well as essays by Yukio Mishima and Ken Hollings.

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

DI Helen Grace Novellas

Crumpled, slapdash and foul-mouthed as ever, Detective Inspector Jack Frost struggles to cope with inadequate back-up and never enough time; the unsolved crimes pile up and the vicious killings go on. Frost must cut corners and take risks as he staggers from crisis to crisis, rapists to murderers, missing bodies to discovered body parts; will he be able to keep Denton safe?

DI Jack Frost

Prepare to be gripped by this prequel series to R.D. Wingfield's A Touch of Frost. 
 
Back in Denton, Detective Sergeant Jack Frost returns to investigating murders, finding missing children, and discovering dead bodies in woodland areas. With Detective Inspector Williams missing, and a new policeman, DS Waters, to mentor, DS Jack Frost has to put the stresses and straings of his personal life on hold in order to keep Denton safe.

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