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73630 TAINTED BY EXPERIENCE: A Life in the Arts by John Drummond
There are many words that can be used to describe Sir John Drummond (1934-2006), famed arts administrator and ex-controller of BBC Radio 3, but we like “outspoken” the best. Outspoken, as in referring to Tony Blair as a “professional Philistine”, and Nigel Kennedy as akin to Liberace. Drummond held an unshakeable belief in the importance of the arts and lived a life of heroic defiance of those who would “dumb down” or seek to broadcast or create anything that was of less than the highest quality. These acclaimed and, as you would probably expect, fiery and controversial memoirs were first published in 2000. Photos, 478pp paperback. £14.99 NOW £5
73228 HOLLYWOOD WESTERNS: The Movies
The Heroes: 6 Free Colour Prints by Helen Akitt
Clint Eastwood in his trademark poncho, Yul Brynner the mean man in black, hand poised over pistol at his side, Gary Cooper as sheriff are among the images selected for the six free 8" x 10" prints, ready-to-frame. A big glossy 64 page softback provides biographical data, plot summary, scenes and dozens of colour and black and white images of Westerns, myths, legends and heroes which made household names of Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Tom Mix. £9.99 NOW £6
73227 GRACE KELLY: Hollywood Princess: 6
Free Prints by Mike Gent and Michael Heatley In High Noon, Dial M For Murder and Rear Window to having the Hermès ‘Kelly’ handbag named after her and marrying into royalty, Grace Kelly’s rapid rise through the Hollywood star firmament was assisted by the likes of director John Ford. Marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco stopped her ascent in its tracks but she still proved a trend setter until her shocking and unexpected death in 1982. A big glamorous 64 page softback provides plenty of colour and b/w photos, trivia and things you didn’t know, awards and nominations, quotes about and by her, and dozens of movie stills and fact files. There is one sepia, three mono and two colour prints of the six enclosed in this Bookazine, all ready to frame.
£9.99 NOW £5 73231 JUDY GARLAND: The Day-by-Day
Chronicle of a Legend by Scott Schechter The first day-by-day account of the legend’s life succeeds in its daunting task of tracking Judy’s professional pursuits, the personal crises over which she triumphed and her many accomplishments. Here are her performance dates, concert set lists, recording session schedules, the evolving critical reception to her work, the many celebrities with whom she came into contact. Judy Garland appeared in 40 films, including the cinematic classics The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade and A Star is Born. 438 pages 28.5 cm x 22cm, 80 rare photos. $26.95 NOW £5
72874 LITTLE ERN! The Authorized Biography of Ernie Wise
by Robert Sellers and James Hogg Takes readers from Ernie’s childhood in Leeds where he helped to support his family by dancing, singing and cracking jokes on stage, to being left in London to fend for himself at the tender age of 13. We read about his fateful meeting with the young comic Eric. Here is the touching story of how the Morecambe and Wise double act evolved, how they survived numerous setbacks on the road to TV stardom, and the impact fate had on their lives. 333 pages, photos. £18.99 NOW £4.50
EROTICA
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
- W. H. Auden
73959 HIGH HEELS: Fashion, Femininity, Seduction
by Ivan Bartanian High heels readily represent different feminine archetypes from the domestic to the fashionable, the dangerous, seductive and the femme fatale. Not only do they accentuate femininity by elongating legs, high heels are literally weapon-like like an ice pick as seen
in the film Basic Instinct. Every shoe fetishist will adore this big sleek volume with mostly colour photographs of models teetering on heels, dressed and semi-clothed, nearly nude, crazy outfits, stylised amazingly designed footwear often with sheer fishnet tights, stockings, blindfolded, cuffed and chained, lipsticked, sleek haired, in lingerie, in bondage, in Polaroids and in studios. Chapters include The Nude in Heels and A Fetish for Photography, Fashion Photography of the 70s, and there are conversations with Valerie Steele, Manolo Blahnik, Nicholas Kirkwood and Charlotte Olympia. 192 huge pages and photography from the most famous names in photography for magazines like Vogue and Marie Claire.
$49.95 NOW £12 73932 BAD GIRLS NEED
LOVE TOO by Gary Lovisi These tramps and vamps excite and arouse and their charms are really obvious in the artwork of these pulp fiction Ecstasy and Rapture books. One per page in full colour with great titles like Satan’s Daughter, Whip-Hand! and Office Wife. ‘He stared now at the shapely lines of her long dancer’s
legs. She was built for sex. Every creamy, tempting
inch of flesh was designed to whet and bring fulfilment to a man’s desires. If that man was someone she liked. And wanted. Otherwise, Jill Fischer could probably be a cruel, hard-eyed bitch. One of those conniving, well- educated and beautiful young sophisticates with the heart of a back-alley whore. A woman like his wife Mildred had been.’ Here is a celebration of really, really bad girls, classic pulp fiction hussy’s, sluts and tarts who have heads for business and bodies for sin. But deep down inside they are also hungry for love. These dangerous dames will try to find love with whoever they can, be it cheating husbands, unscrupulous bosses, rich college boys or even other women. 192pp. £9.99 NOW £4.50
74018 SACRED SEX BIBLE by Cassandra Lorius
Subtitled ‘A Guide to Sex and Spirit in the East and West’ here is a book that shows that in sacred sex touch becomes precious, sounds and smells heighten your sensitivity and sensuality, and, regardless of religious affiliation, many people describe the ecstasy that can arise
out of deeply bonded lovemaking as a mystical union. Daoist sexual alchemy involves drawing in female yin energy during sexual contact while sending yang energy into the woman, so that each partner receives an input of their opposite and complementary energy which rebalances the whole system. The ching mixes and blends with the chi through the practise of breath and inner fire, until it joins with the shen at the level of the eyes. By rolling the eyes upwards the jade gate opens, releasing the energy into the crown, from where it flows down into the cauldron in the belly and is purified again. The book covers such vast topics as sexual brain training, rethinking sexual satisfaction, tantra meditation, yoga, exercises on dissolving the ego, chakras and the subtle energy system, energy fields, the return of Gaia, Jung and gender theory, the middle ages and magical thinking, courtly love and the cathars, homosexuality, women’s role in the church and much more. 400 pages packed with colour photos and examples and diagrams and woodcuts.
$19.95 NOW £7.50 74024 EROTICA
UNIVERSALIS by Gilles Néret
From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age-whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas, or Picasso-have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions, and libido, and produced erotic works that the
censors have taken good care to keep from the public. Here we discover that not only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire, Verlaine or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard, Dalí or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations for these naughty books. For this new hardcover edition of the classic 1995 bestseller, Taschen has culled highlights from our Erotica Universalis collection. A banquet for the imagination and a feast of the eye! 576 pages. Colour illus. ONLY £13
73215 120 LIEUX DE PLAISIR EN EUROPE by Erika Lust
A little pink cloth-bound book with the text in French but that doesn’t really matter because what we have here is a very special directory of 120 places in Europe to find swingers’ clubs, fetish, love hotels, nightclubs, festivals, cabarets, burlesque, erotic boutiques, events, beaches and meeting places - for the sexually liberated. Liberally illustrated with horny women, corsets, peek-a-boo dresses, lingerie, equipment, hedonistic party scenes, the book is arranged into Germany and Austria, particularly Berlin where there is a porn film festival, Kit Kat Club and Fun Factory, Hamburg, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan, Paris where you will find the Crazy Horse, Pink Paradise, Yoba and 1969. In Great Britain, Brighton, Edinburgh and no less than 21 venues in London like the Corsetorium, Club Rub to the women’s Erotic Emporium in Hoxton Square and Time for Tease at the Pigalle Club, Piccadilly. 248pp. £48.99 NOW £6
73159 WICKED WAYS by Zara Devereux Beautiful and ambitious friends Kelly Adele and Judith Blake are thrilled when they are taken on as assistants in a rare book shop. They soon find out however that the shop’s owner Adam Renald likes to go to bed with more than just a good book. Thrust into a world of danger, passion and discovery, Kelly and Judith accept an invitation to France and face a life-changing dilemma. Can they delve deeper into the intoxicating world they have glimpsed and never turn back? 300 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
73133 LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XXXI by the Editors of Penthouse Magazine Serving it up hot and dirty, here are sexy and spontaneous stories. Whether it’s at the local drive-in or an island hideaway, in a public park or an exclusive hotel, at a pyjama party or in the hot tub, lovers find the raunchy in the most astonishing and random places. 295pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
73130 HOUSE OF DECADENCE by Marina Anderson
Experience a place like no other - the House of Decadence. Aged 23, Megan Stewart feels that there should be more to life than working in a library, so she answers an advert for a post in a country house and discovers what she has been missing. Handsome Fabrizio Balocchi is far from his Tuscan home, and feeling bored, but he instinctively knows that Megan will be a natural player in his games of domination. Step by step he leads her into a dark world where pleasure is mixed with pain. 311pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
56755 KAMA SUTRA OF VATSYAYANA
by Sir Richard Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot The ‘Kama Sutra (The Science of Love)’ is one of the world’s oldest and greatest books. Written between the 1st and 4th centuries AD, it is a magnificent treatise on sexual conduct and erotic technique. Its purpose is not simply to provide a menu for the sensual epicure or a training programme for the sexual athlete, but to comment on the situations in which men and women encounter and to deal with them in such a way as to achieve personal fulfilment through ecstasy. This edition contains the classic translation by Sir Richard Burton first published in 1883. Decorated endpapers. Paperback, 207pp.
ONLY £2
70659 ELMER BATTERS: From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose edited by Eric Kroll
“If toe sucking, foot licking and stockings are your thing...” Elmer Batters (1919-1997) was the grand master of leg and foot art - trim calves, the arch of a foot, polished nails, the well-made lines of toes and heels. Batters started out publishing his photos himself, but from the late 60s onwards the field was his, and he was the star house photographer of magazines such as Leg-O-Rama, Nylon Doubletake and Black Silk Stockings. This edition has a special Panic Cover which is reversible! 216 pages. ONLY £11
72422 SHOT BY KERN edited by Dian Hanson Real world, real girls where the look on a model’s face might be enough to get you aroused. Photographer Richard Kern in collaboration with the ultra-cool American magazine Vice, was interviewed with his naked models behind-the-scenes and here are a lot of very pretty, smart girls getting naked and Kern making them look fantastic. Stretched across the kitchen counter, brushing teeth, wearing pants, towels artfully draped, hair tousled, some unshaved armpits, doing a back bend, bending over the bed, touching toes and seen from behind, wearing opaque tights, an opaque blouse, girls with girls, under a shower or hose pipe, all young and alive, perky and soft, freckles, jumping up, on the beach and outdoors, and all looking totally happy and relaxed with their bodies and in front of the camera. One big colour photo per page plus free 60 minute colour DVD with all original material by Kern and music by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. 8.9 x 11.8", 288pp. ONLY £28
72977 EIGHTY DAYS RED by Vina Jackson Well-renowned violinist Summer Zahova returns to London. Free and single in the hedonistic capital, she embarks on a series of steamy affairs and travels to Europe to fulfil her dreams. When her priceless violin is stolen, fate brings wealthy and charismatic Domonik back into her life. The couple cannot deny the obsession that still exists between them, but history has left its scars. Red hot romance. 332pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50
72982 FETISH GIRL by Sylvia Bayer Ursula is a 27 year old woman with a penchant for black latex. She meets a swimmer who shares her fetish and is soon introduced to his gay lover. The trio engage in mastery and submission, satisfying each other with delicious pleasures of the flesh. 160pp in Blue Moon paperback.
$7.95 NOW £2.25
73009 NEPTUNE AND SURF by Marilyn Jaye Lewis
A Blue Moon publication including the title story plus the Merry Cure and Gianni’s Girl, here is a trio of lyrical and explicit novellas that challenge stereotypes about the stylistic range of women’s erotica. The title story is the fruit of the author’s conversations with a group of women about their deepest fantasies. What arises is a tantalising look at women’s libidinous desires exploring themes like interracial sex and lesbian nuns. 207pp in paperback.
$7.95 NOW £2.75
73021 TRANSFER POINT NICE by P. N. Dedeaux
After toying with the idea of joining the oldest profession in Nice, two bursting beauties are abducted to the villa of a horny dwarf who grossly mistreats them and ships them to Algiers for use in a drug-smuggling outfit. They are eventually returned to Nice and the un-tender mercies of their aunt, who clearly enjoys whipping them ‘with style’. 239 page paperback. $7.95 NOW £2
73101 POP-UP KAMA SUTRA by Sir Richard Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot
The yawning position, the rising position, congress of a cow, two women embracing against each other against a plush background of Persian style richly woven carpet, a royal couple deeply in love; the ten chapters cover the embrace, kissing, scratching with the nails, biting, various kinds of congress, striking and the sounds appropriate to that, women acting the part of the man, mouth congress and all manner of sexual union are celebrated together with six paper engineered variations including flaps and tabs to pull for more exquisite delight. Very large board pages, all in colour and 40 vintage colour plates and choice excerpts from the original text of this 2000 year old Indian treatise on the art of love. $24.95 NOW £10
73637 CARNAL POSSESSION by Yvonne Strickland
Glamour model and writer of erotica Joanna took the old house for peace and solitude, but never anticipated that her powerful desires would be excited so quickly by the salacious attentions of another woman. Soon she is swept into an intense sexual adventure, where bizarre fetish-fantasies become a reality of strict bondage and sexual humiliation. On realising how far she has been drawn into a sinister coven, and what the price of temptation has become, it’s too late to back out. A dark, deviant delight where vampires thrive upon blood. 219pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
72421 HUGH HEFNER’S PLAYBOY: 6
Volumes Slipcased
by Hugh M. Hefner The archetypal Playboy himself Mr. Hugh Hefner presents a very glamorous illustrated autobiography with chronological highlights from
Playboy magazine’s first 25 years. Released on the 60th anniversary of the magazine, this sumptuous six- volume anthology celebrates the decadence, sophistication and wit of the original men’s magazine and its creator. The box set highlights the extraordinary years from 1926 to 1979, with a selection of each era’s spiciest centrefolds and writing by literary icons Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Ian Fleming and Ray Bradbury, sartorial elegance and features on fashion, travel features, cars, Jazz and music, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe to Farah Fawcett uncovered, letters, society, hot clubs and strip venues and more. A long autobiographical text about his youth, military service, early career as a cartoonist, numerous girlfriends and eventual success with Playboy. Includes behind-the- scenes shots from the Playboy Mansion, Playboy Clubs, and the Big Bunny jet. 25 gatefold Playmate-of-the- month centrefolds, 6 volumes in slipcase lined with artwork also, 7.0 x 9.8", 1910 pages. New from Taschen. ONLY £90
73636 BUTTER WOULDN’T MELT by Penny Birch
‘...I was shaking as I levered my knickers down underneath my skirt. They immediately fell down to my ankles, increasing my resentment and feelings of exposure as I tugged up my skirt to show her my bare bum. She bent close, examining me. Have you been behaving yourself? She asked.’ The possessive AJ, notorious diesel dyke and boss of a motorbike courier firm, regards Pippa as her private property, and American businessman Hudson Staebler has his eye on Pippa’s little sister. Life as a trainee in a City law firm is not what Pippa had imagined and she is forced to accept some highly humiliating duties. 253pp in paperback. A good bedtime romp for spanking enthusiasts. £7.99 NOW £3.50
73671 WHATEVER SHE WANTS by Andrew Rosetta
Sub-titled ‘True Confessions of a Male Escort’ the author lifts the lid on the mysterious, sexy and little-known world of the male escort. All of his women are looking for different things. His personal life, meanwhile, is just as turbulent, from a girlfriend who discovers his secret, to a client who turns against him and threatens to reveal all. Smart, erotic and eye-opening, it reveals exactly what type of woman is willing to part with her money in search of sex, and what type of man is willing to provide it. 287pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4
FICTION
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn’t.
- Iain M. Banks
73965 IT ENDS WITH REVELATIONS by Dodie Smith
A story about the complexities of love and commitment by the author of ‘I Capture the Castle’. During a summer festival in an English spa town, Miles Quentin, a distinguished actor, and his devoted wife Jill become friendly with the local MP Geoffrey Thornton and his young daughters Robin and Kit. All
of these attractive, intelligent and busy people initially seem untroubled, but the surface of their lives conceals problems which come to light after the Quentins return to their London theatre world and the Thorntons to their Westminster home. This sets the scene for an unconventional love story in which loyalty may prove more important than love. 280pp in paperback reprint of the 1967 original. £7.99 NOW £4
74004 WAITING FOR SUNRISE: A Novel by William Boyd
Written by a multiple award- winning author, this novel manages to be at once a mesmerizing journey into the human psyche, a sensitively observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force. It moves from Vienna in 1913 to London’s West End and from the
battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva. A young English actor seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. He is stunned when his few months of passion come to an abrupt end with her accusing him of rape. Only a carefully plotted escape - with the help of two mysterious British diplomats - saves him from trial. But a chain of events has been set off that steadily dismantles his life and haunts him at every turn. The men who helped co-ordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the brutal murder of a complete stranger. His lover from Vienna nonchalantly turns up at a party and expects him to resume their liaison. He is plunged into a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur. 353 rough cut pages. $25.99 NOW £6
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