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Soaring oil prices caused four out of the last five recessions. They caused the current recession. And they will cause the next one. Expensive oil costs us more than just money. It costs jobs, homes and in the long run it is going to radically alter the way we live. For if cheap oil is the fuel that keeps the machinery of globalisation in motion, then expensive oil has the same effect as pouring diesel into an unleaded tank. Everything stalls; the engine fails. Oil prices will rise again in the coming years, as this utterly convincing insight into our collective future argues. And as oil prices fluctuate wildly, our society will change dramatically, and for good. From the homes we live in and the cars we drive to the food we eat and the places we work, our daily lives and global economy are going to be transformed. But while this new, smaller world will take some getting used to, it will also open our eyes to a more localised and ultimately more liveable way of life.

After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt.For the German army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies - the RAF would have to be broken. So every day, throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties. Greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command scrambled as many as five times a day and civilians watched skies criss-crossed with the contrails from the constant dogfights between Spitfires and Me-109s. Britain's very freedom depended on the outcome of that summer's battle.Britain's air defences were badly battered and nearly broken, but against all odds 'The Few', as they came to be known, bought Britain's freedom - many with their lives. These are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. We will not see their like again.

A steamy tale of love, lust and lies on both sides of the law...Julie Gibson's landed a job as a crime reporter for a provincial newspaper. The seaside town she's working in has seen better days; crime and boredom are on the increase and people are going nowhere - fast.Julie finds plenty of action, however, hanging out with the macho cops at the local police station. She starts going out with a detective inspector but things get wild and dangerous when she falls for the rough charms of local biker, Jonny Drew. Caught between two men on the opposite sides of the law, she takes her fun where she finds it.

Helen Dawson is a dedicated doctor who has taken a short-term assignment at an exclusive private hospital that caters for every need of its rich and famous clients. The matron, Sandra Pope, ensures this includes their most curious sexual fantasies. When Helen forms a risky affair with a famous actor, she is drawn deeper into the hedonistic lifestyle of the clinic. But will she risk her won privileges when she uncovers the dubious activities of Sandra and her team?This story of naughty nurses getting busy behind the screens will set temperatures soaring!

When Lucy is sentenced to be rehabiliated in a bizarre institute for the treatment of delinquent girls, she finds that the discplinary methods used are not what she has been led to expect. They are, in fact, decidedly perverse.

By her second year at Oxford, and at great cost to her personal dignity, Isabelle Colraine has managed to gather a group of like-minded women around her, women with a taste for the sexual domination of their fellow female students. She imagines that she can set aside those she's tangled with on the way up, including her dirty minded scout Stan Tierney, but he, and several other men no less depraved, have other ideas.Follow Isabelle's adventures in The Indulgence of Isabelle, The Indecencies of Isabelle, The Indiscretions of Isabelle and The Indignities of Isabelle.

Wherever dark pleasure reigns, there the Domino Queen keeps her court.Whether she's initiating a lonely peasant girl or training a trio of eager slaves, Josephine deals out tenderness and cruelty with an even, elegant hand. Meanwhile Cadence Szathkowicz, the lover Josephine abandoned on Dominica, is searching for her. From pulsating Los Angeles to the strict discipline of Madame Suriko's house in Chicago, Cadence travels on an odyssey of pleasure and pain. All she has to guide her is the sign Josephine wears between her breasts: the tattoo of the domino mask.

Spurned by her husband, and cheated of her inheritance, the Black Widow feels justified in seeking revenge. Determined to lay claim to the Elysian Fields, a health farm with a unique doctrine of sensual pleasure and erotic stimulation, the Black Widow wants what's rightfully hers.Indulging a new-found passion for sexual domination, she is only too pleased to deal with those that get in her way. Punishments are cruel and explicit as she forces subordinates to do her bidding. Only the brave dare beg for mercy and their cries invariably go unheeded. Caught in the middle of this hostile takeover, private investigator Jo Valentine find herself entangled in the Black Widow's web.

The submissive trainees at the Pentagon Agency derive pleasure from even the most demeaning tasks. Their lives are dedicated to sexual servitude; they enjoy pain and humiliation on a daily basis. There is only one punishment they try to avoid: the black room.When private investigator Jo Valentine is assigned to infiltrate the Pentagon Agency, she is prepared to do anything to get results - but nothing can prepare her for what lies in the black room. The more she discovers about the agency, the more she learns of her passion for dark and bizarre sexual games that go beyond anything she has experienced before.

Tempting the Goddess follows Nich Mordaunt's elaborate schemes to replace the Pagan leader Ariesian's bland and commercail festivals with ones of his own invention, featuring the deflowering of virgins, together with lurid orgies and sacrifices. However, Nich must negotiate the bitter sexual rivalries among antagonistic priests and priestesses, and all the while the lewd and unctuous Mr Pedlow is watching.

Jude Ryan expects obedience. And she always gets it. Fellow artist, Michael Read, believes he can persuade any woman to submit to him. And he can be very persuasive. In Jude he finds a sexual appetite to match his own and a power he can't resist. The kiss of the whip, the unforgiving caress of leather restraints and cold, cruel stiletto heels are the tools she uses to push Michael to erotic extremes and open his eyes to a whole new world of forbidden pleasure. In her dungeon he learns that bondage can set you free.

Pretty she-male Shelly has had her secret dreams of domination and feminisation fulfilled by Aunt Jane. Yet her willing slavery has taken a new and even more kinky turn with her induction into the Bigger Picture, a secret society of female dominants dedicated to the world wide subjugation of the male. In this intensely erotic and exciting sequel to the Company of Slaves, we discover a plot to turn the entire male sex into helpless sissy slaves and follow Shelly's final jouney into a realm of total silken servitude.

An intense exploration of exoticism and the boundaries of erotic desire.Willing captive Marietta is settling into an opulent life of privileged captivity as favoured concubine in the handsome Kasim's harem. But when she is kidnapped by Kasim's enemy, Hamed, her new-found way of life is thrown into chaos. Reunited with her beautiful slave lover, Gabriel, she suffers the torments of a tainted desire. Kasim, too, has to face the toughest challenge of his life, For the only way he can win back Marietta from the clutches of Hamed and the arms of Gabriel is to agree to spend time as Hamed's plaything. Will his honour - and, indeed, his flesh, stand the test?

The beautiful Anya, betrothed to the prince of Lidir, has set sail for his homeland. On the way, her ship is beset by pirates. Captured and put into chains, Anya is subjected to a harsh shipboard regime of punishment and cruel pleasures at the hands of the captain and his crew. When landfall is made on a mysterious island populated by dark-eyed amazons, Anya plots her escape. But she is unaware of the fate that awaits any man or woman who dares to venture ashore.

For Sophie Page, the job of warden at Elmcote Hall is a dream come true. The beauty of the old house and the overgrown grounds speaks to her love of nature. As a venue for weddings, films and exotic parties the Hall draws curious and intersting people, including the handsome Richard Fox and his friends - who are equally alluring and more puzzling still. Sophie suspects that Fox is responsible for the sexually charged events taking place by night in the woods around the Hall. However, he is only carrying on a tradition; Elmcote's Victorian owner - the eccentric occultist, Elgar Vaughan - used the grounds for Dionysian sex rituals, and now it's Sophie's turn to find out just how much fun can be had with the old ways of worship.

Santa is a university student with a wonderful new boyfriend and bright future. However, she's also a bad girl with a wild streak who cultivates an illicit and obsessive reationship with her law professor. The older Professor MacLean's attractions are too numerous and beguiling to avoid, and Santa cannot stop herself from teasing him with her saucy behaviour - in and out of class. Caught up in this dangerous game, she is neglecting her studies but honing her sexual skills, driving all the men around her to distraction. When MacLean sets Santa a defence assignment that mirrors their own highly charged situation, the sexual tension reaches boiling point and threatens to spill over into something far more dangerous.

Beautiful dominitrix Severe Campaign far exceeds her corporal punishment brief in shaming and enslaving Luke Redruth. Later, he becomes discipline master at Lick's Girl's school, while Severe still delights in caning men at nearby Crushards Acadamy. Yet lustful pupils and staff conspire to have them both sent to a Brazilian plantation marshalled by flagellant police girls.

At twenty-six, Zita's a babe on the way up: live-in cameraman lover, urban des-res, stupendous media job. It seems she can do no wrong. But somehow the volume gets turned up a little too loud one night and she ends up wrestling naked with her girl pal - and now they're not just pals anymore. She is also becoming obsessed with Cy, the beautiful tai-chi naturist. And then the nude rave scene in the music promo she supervises gets totally out of hand. And what's her boyfriend up to in Cuba? If Zita thinks she has the rules sussed, how come everyone else is playing a different game?

Librarian Justine is given a chance to acquire La Cost: an unpublised story that is supposedly the most disturbing work written by the Marquis de Sade. Justine's quest willl bring her face to face with extremes of punishment and pleasure. Certain to face sacrilege, sadism and subversion she knows there are no limits in the pursuit of forbidden reading.

'Dr Kracowa, if you please, would you examine the patient and pass verdict on her fitness to endure what awaits her?''Where shall I begin?' Mina asked.'Bum-cheeks first,' I said. 'Are they ...are they firm?''Indeed they are,' Mina saind, her own voice unsteady with lust. 'Delicioulsly firm... but sensitive too.''And the skin, is it smooth? Is it tender?' Another gasp from the farm-girl.'Aye,' Mina said. 'Smooth. Very smooth. And very tender.'

She s a good girl gone bad... When Maria Lewis moves back to her hometown, the quiet life she is looking for is quickly disrupted by the enigmatic presence of her new boss, Robert Stone.A sexy, powerful older man, he seduces Maria into a deliciously erotic underworld. But will she ever be more than Mr Stone s plaything?A tantalizing erotic romance from Portia Da Costa, the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep and The Accidental Trilogy

Eden Sinclair is director of the exclusive Galerie Raton in Atlanta's prestigious mid-town district. As summer temparatures soar she finds it increasingly difficult to adhere to her self-imposed celibacy and spends a lot of time fantasising about the attractive young artists who pass through the gallery.Among them is Michael MacKenzie, the flame-haired sculpture whose sexy masculinity sets her pulse racing. Almost delirious with unrequited passion, Eden sets out to seduce him - despite her professional promise never to become involved with her clients. Things become even more charged when she finds out gallery owner Alexander is having an affair with her best friend. In downtown Atlanta it's going to be a summer of saucy suprises and steamy encounters.

Female desire, Cole decided, could never be underestimated. Whether a girl was naive, like Nurse Margaret, or a cynical sophisticate, like Melinda, if a man discovered their dark side and indulged it to satisfaction, they belonged to him thereafter. But Cole's oath - to never feel for any woman - is threatened the moment he is asked to mentor Lana. A girl who wields the ultimate feminine weapon - abosolute undemanding surrender.

Tormunil can be an exceedingly harsh place for pretty young serving girls. Destined for a life of sexual slavery at the hands of merciless overlords, the chosen ones are taken to the Abbey - a place where strength is learnt through obedience to those who follow the path of the Twisted Cross.Taken into this strange world, the young and beautiful Sianon and Iroise are allowed few privileges. Tormented to the peaks of pleasure, but punished if they seek release, their only hope of escape lies with the handsome young traveller who has fallen for their charms. If he can enter the Abbey unnoticed, he may be able to rescue them. But if he is caught, he faces an inquisition beyond the realms of his darkest dreams.

She'd defied him, lied to him... and had to be punished most severely.Belinda fears that her teenage daughter may be falling for Tony, her handsome but cruel new neighbour, and resolves to do everything in her power to keep the two apart. She believes that by giving her body to Tony she'll be able to preserve her daughter's innocence, but she soon finds herself hooked on debased and perverted sexual acts as she plunges deeper and deeper into the pit of depravity.

When Rachel Kemp is in danger of losing her job at a London University visiting academic Luke Holloway takes her for a sybaritic weekend in the country to cheer her up. Her encounters with Luke and his enigmatic friend Max, open up a world of sensual possibilities, and she is even offered a new job editing a sexually explicit Victorian diary.But when Rachel returns to London, she is accused of smuggling papers out of the country and is sacked on the spot. When she tries to clear her name she discovers her actions have dangerous - and highly erotic - consequences.

Seduced into an underworld of kinky intrigue...When Beth Bradshaw - the manager of a fashionable bar in the seaside town of Brighton - starts flirting with the handsome Ilya, she becomes a player in a game based purely on sexual brinkmanship. The boundaries between fantasy and reality start to blur as their relationship takes on an increasingly reckless element. When Ilya's murky past catches up with him, he's determined to involve Beth. Unwilling to extricate herself from their addictive games, she finds herself being drawn deeper into the seedy underbelly of Brighton where things - including Ilya - are far more dangerous than she bargained for.A thrilling erotic romance from Kristina Lloyd, one of the leading names in erotic fiction.

Art historian Lissa and doctor Colin meet at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where they are both promoting their latest books. At the fair, and then through Europe, the two lovers embark on an exploration of their sexual fantasies, playing intense games of bondage, spanking and dressing up. Lissa loves humiliation, and Colin is just the man to provide her with the pleasure she craves. Unbeknown to Lissa, their meeting was not accidental, but planned ahead by a mysterious patron of the erotic arts.

The privileged girls of the exclusive Fernleigh Risa Estate, in England, look down with contempt on the residents of shabby Cheyner Close, and wage a secret war of vandalism and harassment against them. But they underestimate the ingenuity and determination of those they so despise. When the residents strike back, the girls find revenge is both sweet and very painful.

Jade is usually a confident young lesbian, very aware of what she wants, and what she doesn't, Unfortunately her taste for being bullied can very easily get out of hand, and when she decides to compete with her filthy uncle Rupert in collecting the uniforms of sex partners, they quickly do. What starts out as a playful if provocative hobby leads to her finding herself obliged to accomodate men as well as women, and ending up in a seriously sticky mess - literally.