**WINNER OF THE 2017 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZEA new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel.**This disturbing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translatio...

'Beautiful and deep ... **a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'F**ood for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for redisco...

'Beautiful and deep ... **a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times***A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The second ...

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinog...

Aldous Huxley’s most enduring masterpiece, Brave New World, presents a darkly satiric vision of a “utopian” future that has both captivated and shocked readers for generationsIn the far future, the utopian World State seems like the ideal society—through the use of genetic engineering, the human race has been perfected, and all citizens are well provided for. There is no violence, babies are created in laboratories, and everyone consumes daily medication t...

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,...

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transg...

LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE is a dark & dangerous romance with a happy ending! It can be read as a suspenseful, thrilling, super spicy STANDALONE.I'm running from my past, but he might catch me first…“Five Stars." ~ Pepper Winters, New York Times bestselling authorI'll do anything to stay hidden, even if that means working at the scariest club in town.Then he shows up, mysterious and yet strangely familiar. And so damn sexy.When he...

A New York Times Bestseller!Some love is rare. All love is precious. Their love is like no other.The fourth part in the New York Times bestselling Blackstone Affair series brings the continuing story of Ethan and Brynne, two damaged souls fighting for a hard-won love, and now the promise of a new hope to secure their happily ever after.Fresh from their idyllic honeymoon along the Italian coast, the Blackstones prepare for the birth of their preciou...

“A darkly sensual look into the BDSM lifestyle that melted my e-reader and my heart. I’m thankful there are twenty-five more letters in the alphabet.”—New York Times bestselling author, Jayne RylonThe alphabet has never been so sexy.The overseers of LA’s most exclusive BDSM club have a sexy new game that all members must play, and experienced sub Anna has no choice but to participate, despite the fact that she's is only months away from being bonded...

Brina Kingston just got a job working for Luke Maxwell, the billionaire CEO of Maxwell Computers.He doesn’t know she’s there to steal his latest invention.She doesn’t know that she’s in way over her head.Luke Maxwell is the smoking hot billionaire CEO of Maxwell Computers, and I’m the corporate spy who’s been sent to steal his latest invention.It only takes one interview and I easily — perhaps too easily — w...

Xander Thorpe is ensnared by the irresistible allure of Autumn Hallman, the tantalizingly efficient, beautiful, saucy office manager at The Thorpe Group. Their daily office clashes, brimming with tension, take on a tantalizing undertone for Xander.Autumn, seething with resentment over the parade of gorgeous women vying for Xander's attention, attempts an office truce to no avail. Despite her efforts to maintain professionalism, Xander's talent for getting under her skin persists, i...