Jessica Jenkins means business. She is the powerful CEO of a multi-million dollar company. At work, she runs a tight ship. People jump when she walks by and tend to cower in corners when she walks by. But once she gets home, it's an entirely different story. There, it's her husband Thomas who is in control. In every way. At home, Jessica has to bow to his every whim and submit to his every desire. Bound, gagged, trussed. She exists purely for his pleasure, no matter how degrading it happen...

From early childhood, Annie Sawyer has been plagued by nightmares that awaken her, drenched in sweat and desperately seeking the comfort of her mother's presence. Although she remembers little, the sensation of being watched lingers far after the light switch bathes her room in comfort, and her mother's soothing words ease her fears. The sense that someone is waiting follows her into adulthood, but what are 'they' waiting for?As the latest young Sawyer woman comes of age, the genera...

'Groundbreaking... a must-have.' Independent'A worthwhile tutorial in how to write lyrics.' Evening Standard*What makes a song work?What element causes us to stop, to listen, to listen again? Is it a melody? Is it a beat? Is it the words that are sung, or spoken? Is it what they speak to in us? Is it a combination of all of the above?*Jermaine Scott – aka Wretch 32 – is one of the most important and...

Obsession is the story of a lonely house-wife seemingly trapped within a loveless and sexless marriage, working hard every day just to get to the end of the day. She doesn't realize just how lonely and passion-starved she has become until one day, quite out of the blue, she receives a call from an unknown caller who proceeds to blow her mind and expand her sexual horizons with amazing aural sex. He rapidly captures her heart and her lust, to the point where he is all she can think about. H...

Eight incredibly steamy stories about a hot wife's journey from timidly seeking pleasure outside of her marriage with her husband's consent to increasingly more indulgently seductive experiences. With her husband's approval, and usually in his presence, she embarks upon a journey of self discovery deep into a sexually charged world of limitless possibilities.It begins with Masquerade, where she and her husband begin her journey with a mysterious stranger involved in an intimate enc...

Being at the right place at the right time is the theme of this debaucherous tale of lust and passion. Thea becomes the willing participant in a night of unbridled passion and taboo-breaking sexual escapades as she happens to peer through her upstairs window down into her next-door neighbor's backyard. There, illuminated by the lights of the pool, she happens to spy two sexy men engaged in a heated argument and before she realizes what she is doing, she finds herself in their midst playing...

Kat is the nightmare that keeps mothers up at night. They don't want their daughters to be like her, and worse yet, their sons to date her, not that 'dating' is her style. Her ravenous sexual appetite propels her from one conquest to another, with whomever she chooses, be it man or woman, and often times several of each at the same time. No one is off limits to her and no one can resist her charms. But her proclivities and extreme deviant sexual nature have led her to perhaps one lay too m...

Brought to you by Penguin.A revelatory work of non-fiction from one of the most popular and influential musicians of today: part autobiography, part guide to creativity and part cultural history.What makes a song work? What element causes us to stop, to listen, to listen again? Is it a melody? Is it a beat? Is it the words that are sung, or spoken? Is it what they speak to in us? Is it a combination of all of the above?Wret...

Read by Paul McGann, Louise Brealey, Tania Rodrigues, Shvorne Marks, Jot Davies, David John, Dean Williamson and Charles Armstrong. Introduced by Daniel Rachel, and featuring audio-exclusive extracts from Daniel's source interviews.The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confi...

Brought to you by Penguin.In the early years of Vladmir Putin’s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President’s most trusted assets. By 2023, he had become a dangerous warlord – and also one of Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading an attempted coup, and shortly after killed in a mysterious plane crash.But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos ...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that Manchester really made its mark on the world stage. A place built on hard work and innovation, it is no coincide...

The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales? Dismissed as 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes' or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the mid-nineteenth century - everything from theft and fraud to romance scams and murder. In Private Inquiries, Caitlin Davies traces the history of the UK's female investigators. Women like Victo...