www.bibliophilebooks.com 73571 POEM OF THE PILLOW AND OTHER


STORIES edited by Gian Carlo Calza The 18th century saw the perfection of Japanese erotic art, ukiyo-e shunga, and the 23 masters represented in this gorgeous book all lived during the late 17th century to the mid-19th. Sexual activity in these prints is mostly depicted clothed, with only the private parts visible. In the 17th century Edo (Tokyo) became a centre for the leisured classes and at the same time young men in Japan far outnumbered women, leading to a proliferation of “green houses” or brothels. Some art was in frankly pornographic form, other erotica was exquisitely produced with a beautifully innocent front page for the eyes of the censor, who well understood the convention that he should look no further. The 17th century Yoshiwara Pillow Pictures are both a sex manual and a depiction of the courtesan’s inner sanctum. In the next century, Sukenobu created “The Shining Dimple of Love”, sparking a revolution in style with his refined features and extraordinary mastery of the female figure, often in the nude. 464pp, full page colour reproductions. £29.95 NOW £16


73001 THE LAWYER by Michael Hemmingson Kelly O’Rourke is an editorial assistant at a large publishing house. She has filed a lawsuit against the conglomerate’s best selling author after a questionable night on a yacht. Kelly isn’t quite as innocent as she seems; rather, as her lawyer finds out, she has a sordid history of sexual deviance and BDSM which may not be completely in her past. 184 page Blue Moon paperback. $7.95 NOW £1.50


73028 SOUVENIRS FROM A BOARDING SCHOOL by Anonymous


Lucette is a spoilt 15 year old, brought up in a small village near Bruges, sent away by her wicked stepmother to the Home for the Education of Young Undisciplined Girls. At 18 she has learnt to submit to brute force and returns to her father’s chateau to take more beatings from the same tall blonde stepmother. Marrying and widowed at 25 and a very rich woman, Lucette sets about whipping her young charge, a 13 year old girl and enjoys the experience. 200pp with line art in paperback.


$7.95 NOW £2.75 72423 NEW EROTIC


PHOTOGRAPHY VOL. 1 by Dian Hanson and Eric Kroll Women celebrate their beautiful bodies, mostly unclothed very desirable, some playful and teasing, some in heels and lingerie, eyes inviting, some couples and girl-on-girl action, bonking on a motorbike (page 96) or in a car (page 97) in the glorious colour collection. Imagine


walking into a room filled with the world’s finest contemporary erotic photographers, each with a portfolio of his or her best work. You will meet Ralph Gibson, Susan Egan, the fun Mike James, Jan Saudek, Terry Richardson, Natacha Merritt, Petter Hegre, Richard Kern and the many fresh new talents currently redefining eroticism. Playful, provocative and exuberantly sexy. 320 pages. ONLY £10


73086 L IS FOR LEATHER edited by Alison Tyler


Leather chaps, combat boots, black leather gloves, stilettos, belts and hoods all give way to kinky stories of leather adventures. Zip yourself into a skin-tight full- length coat, redolent with the feral fragrance of animal passion. Meet a cowboy after church who knows a good trick with leather belts. Sit down, strap it on and make your skin tingle with this 140 page paperback. £8.99 NOW £2


73154 THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler


Here is a poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, the Vagina Monologues has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler’s award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women’s deepest fantasies and fears and their revelations are quite shocking (see the ‘Coochi Scorcher’ on page 78-9) to, naturally, the very intimate indeed. 186pp in paperback.


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73290 O: THE INTIMATE HISTORY OF THE ORGASM


by Jonathan Margolis Boiled down to its basics, there is not much to an orgasm, just an explosive burst of electrical impulses travelling along our nerves at 156mph. Most people experience around 12 minutes of orgasmic bliss per year and some never experience it at all. Here is a mix of facts,


anecdote and analysis of this most compelling and enigmatic of phenomena, the driving force of human society for millennia. What have we learned about female pleasure since the “discovery” of the clitoris in 1558? How does the sensation of orgasm differ from person to person? Biology, anthropology, psychology and technology. 401pp. $24 NOW £5


FICTION


I feel his books are all written in hotels with the bed unmade.


- Ronald Firbank 74501 MUSEUM OF


INNOCENCE: A Novel by Orphan Pamuk


It is the spring of 1975 in Istanbul and 30 year old Kemal, heir to one of the city’s most wealthy and respected families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, from a similarly aristocratic family. But a meeting with Fusun, an 18 year old shopgirl who turns out to be a distant relation, throws his emotions


and elegantly mapped out life into total disarray. Breaking the taboo of virginity, Kemal is torn away from his much loved family and their social scene of Westernised Istanbul aristocracy and for nine years finds excuses to visit the other Istanbul, the house in the impoverished backstreets that Fusun shares with her parents, the seedy cinemas, cheap bars and sad hotels populated by small men with big dreams and bigger failures. He becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his love story and the multitude of incidents and emotions that accompany it, creating a museum of society’s rituals and mores and of one man’s broken heart. This outstanding novel also plumbs the depths of the rituals, morality and immense cultural history of Istanbul, a city half Western, half traditional and entirely unique. First English translation from 2010, 536pp.


£18.99 NOW £5 74873 TROUBLE AT THE


LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL by Gervase Phinn


Elisabeth Devine certainly rocked the boat when she arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale to take over as head teacher of the little primary school. Now it is a new term, and after winning over the wary locals, she can finally settle in to her role - or so she thinks. For the school is hit by a brand new bombshell - it is to be merged with its arch rival, and


Elisabeth has to fight for the headship with Urebank’s ruthless and calculating headmaster. Add in some gossip and a helping of scandal, not to mention various newcomers to Barton, and that is not the only trouble brewing in the village. Another super novel from Yorkshire’s favourite school inspector. 353pp in paperback.


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74877 VOICES IN SUMMER by Rosamunde Pilcher Laura, newly married and ever conscious of the shadow of her husband Alec’s first wife, takes a holiday with his family in Cornwall. Through the long hot summer days she is charmed by the beautiful old house and the people she learns to know and love. The sight of a sparkling, brilliant sea quiets for a while her uneasy spirit. Only an anonymous letter accusing her of having an affair can threaten her


new-found tranquillity. 214pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


74850 SLEEPING TIGER by Rosamunde Pilcher When Selina comes across a photograph of the father she has never known, she impulsively flies to the tiny island of San Antonio to meet him. The man she finds there will have a more profound affect on her life than she could have even hoped for. A heart warming story, full of Spanish flavour and style. A lovely quick read, 200pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


74856 BLUE BEDROOM AND


OTHER STORIES by Rosamunde Pilcher The author has a long and distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer and is the bestselling author of The Shell Seekers. This collection was first published in the USA in 1985 and other stories were previously published in Woman’s Weekly or Woman & Home. The 13 stories in this omnibus take us into Pilcher’s


world of cosy kitchen suppers and sunned-apple country gardens, of family celebrations and small kindnesses. Meet characters who will become instant friends. Stories include Home for the Day, Spanish Ladies, Miss Cameron at Christmas, Amita, Gilbert, The White Birds and An Evening to Remember. 250pp in reprinted paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


73202 ISLAND OF WINGS by Karen Altenberg The year is 1830 and the pregnant Elizabeth MacKenzie is embarking on a sea voyage with her husband Neil, a handsome Church of Scotland minister who feels he is called to be a pastor to the islanders of St. Kilda. Lizzie struggles to achieve the warmth in their marriage that she longs for, and when a strange foreigner is discovered half-starved, hiding on the island, she nurses him back to health and finds herself attracted to him. Meanwhile Lizzie discovers that her friend Betty has an agonising secret. 312pp. £20 NOW £6.50


74822 A TANGLED SUMMER by Caroline Kington In the village of Summerstoke, Marsh Farm has been neglected for too long. Charlie Tucker is too busy playing the field to notice the decline of his own meadows. His brother Stephen is suffering hopelessly with unrequited love. Their sister Alison is determined to lose her virginity before the summer is over, and their mum dreams of escaping into the arms of the local vet. Fed up with


watching her family squander their chances, grandmother Elsie, the only Tucker with a lover, issues an ultimatum - either her grandsons find brides by the end of the year, or they lose their inheritance. 385pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £3


74636 POTTER’S HAND by A. N. Wilson


This exuberant and brilliantly imagined historical novel starts with Josiah Wedgwood preparing to have his leg amputated while his doctor, Dr Darwin, begs the surgeon to remember which leg it is that has to go. The grisly scene is watched by Sukey, Wedgwood’s young daughter, who a long time in the future will marry Dr Darwin’s son


and become the mother of Charles Darwin. The scene switches to France, where Voltaire is writing to Catherine the Great of Russia advising on designs for the 1000-piece set she has just ordered from Josiah Wedgwood’s pottery. Another scene change, and Wedgwood’s nephew Tom Byerley is sitting in a New York coffee house wondering how to get rid of his mistress, Mrs Aylmer, in order to devote his attentions to the younger Polly while also seducing a new redhead who has arrived with her husband in his lodgings. When a letter from his uncle requires him to ride into Cherokee country in pursuit of a new kind of china clay, a fascinating historical narrative is under way from an author who is himself a descendant of the great Josiah. 505pp.


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74867 THE LITTLE HOUSE by Philippa Gregory


A brilliant psychological chiller with an explosive climax. It was easy for Elizabeth, married to the man she loved, with two children and a home which made her the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that somehow she could never quite measure up. Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual


women. The disturbing depths of what they women want and what women fear become all too apparent as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity. The novel lays bare the truth behind the comfortable conventions of rural England and Sunday lunch with the in-laws will never be the same again. 361pp in paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3.50


74872 THEIRS WAS THE KINGDOM


by R. F. Delderfield


Adam Swann’s expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale. Alex, his elder son, is a professional soldier. George is a pioneer of the motor industry and his adopted daughter Deborah works to uncover the terrible injustices facing working- class women. The great edifice of


the British Empire is beginning to crumble, and as the gap between prosperity and poverty widens, England can no longer afford to be complacent. The second instalment in the hugely successful in Swann family trilogy which explores the fads and feuds of a rapidly changing Victorian Britain. May be read as a stand alone. 896pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


75002 DEAD SCHOOL by Patrick McCabe


Malachy Dudgeon has escaped the misery and madness of his childhood home and landed a job in the most famous school in Dublin. The headmaster Raphael Bell has overcome his own tragedies to forge a model career, but when Malachy and Raphael meet, they become inextricably engaged in a macabre relationship which proves


fatal to their fortunes and their sanity. ‘McCabe can make you howl at the darkest antics… His novel is death on a laugh-support machine.’ The great headmaster is a marvellous fictional creation and reading the distilled bouts of consciousness which pour from the minds of these characters is like being trapped on a big dipper with articulate maniacs. An appallingly funny story. 356pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £5


73367 MISTRESS OF NOTHING by Kate Pullinger


This astounding novel begins in 1862. Lady Duff Gordon is holding a dinner party for the cream of London society when her maid Sally realises all is not well. She excuses her Lady from the table and leads her to the kitchen, where she immediately coughs up a terrifying quantity of blood. Lady Duff Gordon was a very generous and reasonable employer, but with Sally marrying and bearing the child of Omar, her Egyptian servant, she was left with little choice. Thus Sally must choose between staying with her Lady and returning to England leaving her son and husband behind, or staying in Egypt to face an unknown future. 250pp. ONLY £5


74977 MINERVA: The Six Sisters by M. C. Beaton


Raven-haired Minerva, eldest daughter of an impecunious vicar, is despatched to town under the wing of the disreputable old Lady Godolphin. Her task, to find a rich husband and therefore restore the ailing Armitage family fortunes. When her London début is marred by her habit of speaking her mind, the highly eligible Lord Sylvester Comfrey decides to give her lessons in the gentle art of attracting the opposite sex. But his expert teachings result in some surprising consequences. 234pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


75021 THE TAMING OF ANNABELLE: The Six Sisters by M. C. Beaton


From the moment honey-tressed young Annabelle meets her sister Minerva’s intended, Lord Sylvester, she develops a secret passion for him that obsesses her. Now she is determined to take him away from Minerva, no matter what, but she had not reckoned on Lord Sylvester’s best friend Peter who falls in love with her and decides to tame her growing passions for the wrong man! A rollicking Regency tale. 250pp in paperback.


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74950 DEIRDRE & DESIRE: The Six Sisters by M. C. Beaton


Red-haired, jade-eyed Deirdre is determined to marry for love and nothing else will do. So the fact her father’s candidate for her hand, Lord Harry Desire is well bred and good looking, interests her not a jot! But the feelings he arouses in her are truly distracting and Deirdre discovers what desire can mean, where her heart really lies and this brings about a delicious climax to this adventure of intrigue, misunderstanding and ultimately love. M. C. Beaton is the best of Regency writers. 266pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


74949 DAPHNE: The Six Sisters by M. C. Beaton


Daphne Armitage is the acknowledged beauty of that family of renowned belles, but beauty is more than skin deep. Black haired, exquisite Daphne is certain she can avoid the turmoil of true love by demanding nothing more of a husband than to be an elegant companion. The self-absorbed Mr Archer seems to fit the bill to perfection, but when Mr Simon Garfield agitates Daphne’s calm exterior, the results are dramatic and delightful. A charming tale of frustrated love. 215pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


74952 DIANA THE HUNTRESS: The Six Sisters by M. C. Beaton


With her lustrous black hair and enormous dark eyes, Diana is shy of men yet dreams of the freedom they must enjoy. Only when she is invited to town by the icily blond Lord Mark Dantrey does she begin to realise that being a women does have unexpected advantages. And what of the gypsy who prophesised a dark stranger and warned of a fair one? Surprising twists and turns await Diana on the path of true love. A delightful tale for romance fans. 230pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £4


74958 FREDERICA IN FASHION: The Six Sisters


by M. C. Beaton


How can plain Frederica withstand a season’s scrutiny after the five beauties before her have married so magnificently? The only solution is to run away from home. Disguised as a chambermaid, Freddie soon finds her way into the household of the fashionable Duke of Pembury, but that wild gentleman is soon on to her tricks and finds himself escorting Freddie back to London. There she is once again on the marriage mart, and her sisters make over the tomboyish runaway until she cannot even recognise herself! A humorous and dashing tale. 182pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


75046 M. C. BEATON: Set of Six by M. C. Beaton


Buy all six paperbacks and save even more. £41.94 NOW £20


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