In May 1999, after a 40-year career including 100 films, Oliver Reed died, as he had invariably lived, drinking with friends while making a film - his well-reviewed performance in the blockbuster Gladiator. Having risen through Hammer Horror films to international stardom as Bill Sykes in Oliver!, Reed became, in his own works, 'the biggest star this country has got'. With his legendary off-screen exploits and blunt opinions - especially of his co-stars - he was also one of the most infamous.Bestselling author Cliff Goodwin uses material from first-hand interviews with Reed's family, friends and colleagues and never before seen photographs to explore Reed's eventful career. But he also reveals another side to this unique and complex man.
We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, and this has profound consequences on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. In this book, Arianna Huffington boldly asserts that what is needed is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.Through a sweeping, scientifically rigorous and deeply personal exploration of sleep from all angles, Arianna delves into the new golden age of sleep science that reveals the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer s. In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted not only compromises our health and our decision-making but also undermines our work lives, our personal lives and even our sex lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the dangerous sleeping pill industry and confronts all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can achieve better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power.In today's fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually harried and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night s sleep is more important and elusive than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities and our world.
After dropping out of school at just sixteen, James Caan started his business life in a broom cupboard with no qualifications and two pieces of fatherly wisdom: 'observe the masses and do the opposite' and 'always look for opportunities where both parties benefit'. Armed with this advice, natural charm and the Yellow Pages, he built a market-leading business with a turnover of 130 million and swiftly became one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs.From Caan's childhood as a Pakistani immigrant to the phenomenal success of his first company and beyond, The Real Deal traces both his financial and personal achievements. It offers a frank account of what success at thirty really signifies and brings us right up to the present, including his impact on Dragons' Den and what his charity work, from saving a hospital in London to building a school in Lahore, means to him. Ultimately, it is a story of learning what money is really worth, told by one the country's most insightful businessmen.
Do you feel stressed out?Want to relax quickly and let go of unhelpful tension in your life? These super-quick, easy and effective strategies based on the principles of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) will help you chill out and feel better in minutes, whether you're stressed about work, having trouble unwinding on holiday or simply want to enjoy your life more. You will discover how to: Make instant changes to reduce feelings of stress and fear Schedule time to worry as well as time to switch off so you can relax and let go Gain perspective on stressful situations Make changes to the way you deal with long-term stress, and much more.From simple physical exercises to easy-to-do mental strategies, Tony Wrighton's techniques will help you deal with specific issues in every area of your life, and will allow you to relax and feel great.
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1908, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future everythng from the weather to the likelihood of a terrorist attack. Future Babble is the first book to examine this phenomenon, showing why our brains yearn for certainty about the future, why we are attracted to those who predict it confidently, and why it's so easy for us to ignore the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts.In this fast-paced, example-packed, sometimes darkly hilarious book, Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by professor Philip Tetlock proved that the more famous a pundit is, the more likely they are to be right about as often as a stopped watch. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics to discover something quite reassuring: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near.
WANT TO BE MORE PERSUASIVE AND CHARISMATIC?INTERESTED IN LEARNING HOW TO DELIVER A MESSAGE UNDER THE RADAR?These super-quick, easy and effective persuasion techniques will get people saying YES in seconds. Whether it's making more authoritative presentations, winning arguments or even using Facebook to get your way, you can start persuading NOW because each technique takes a minute or less.LEARN HOW TO: Make a sensational first impression Climb the career ladder super-fast Make more money and close the deal Hear that magic word YES!You'll even learn 'the most persuasive word in the world' (CLUE: It's on the back cover of this book.)
Was Diana murdered? Was the British Royal family involved? Was she pregnant and engaged to Dodi? Did the paparazzi or 'a blinding white flash' cause the crash? Was driver Henri Paul really drunk or were his blood tests switched?Since Princess Diana died in Paris on 31 August 1997 there have been more questions than answers about the crash that killed her, despite lengthy official French and British investigations.This is the authoritative and up-to-date study into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, which includes unique access to Diana's close friends and bodyguards, French and British detectives who probed the crash, and the official French investigation's dossier into the crash.
The ceremonies of the black masque are magnificent events steeped in an erotic blend of vampire myth and fantasy. The depravity of these rituals is boundless and each rite culminates in orgiastic excess.As they prepare to enact their greatest ceremony to date, passions run high among the perverse members. Eager virgins are prepared and the sacrificial altar is readied as the masque aniticipates its finest night,. Unwittingly entangled in the twisted ceremony, private investigator Jo Valentine is drawn into their dark world of pleasure and pain - and none of her previous adventures have prepared Jo for her unearthly encounter with the black masque.
Ruthless and beautiful, Hera leads the Black Garter with a merciless hand. Her elite group of prefects secretly patrols the Kilgrimol Finishing School for Young Ladies. They help her to administer cruel and degrading punishments whenever Hera deems it necessary. New recruits are subjected to humiliating initiations, but the treasured prize of acceptance makes it a sacrifice worth enduring.When a spate of scandals strikes the school, private investigator Jo Valentine is called in to find the souce of these incidents. Finding herself drawn in to a world of perverse pleasures and sexual intrigue, she soon realises that the kilgrimol Finishing School is no place for a lady.
Winner takes all...When Victoria Ashe lures an ex-lover to her London hotel room, their passion is reignited with startling intensity. She's out to prove to Ray that intimacy can be just as exciting as the thrill of the chase. Ray Torrington might actually agree if it weren't for King Bai Lon, a Hong Kong bombshell who doles herself out one delicate morsel at a time, always in public. And Penny, a champion poker player known as 'The Flame of London', also has her sights on the saucy jackpot of winning King Bai Lon. The scene is set for a high-stakes game of sexual exploration. When the wild card keeps changing it's difficult for even the most accomplished player to know who's bluffing and who is telling the truth. But in this lusty tournament of champions, the winner takes all.
When Sophie Taylor finds herself outlining her ultimate fantasy - to pay a man for sex - at her drunken 31st birthday party, all her friends seem to get the wrong end of the stick. Because suddenly everyone seems to be trying to make Sophie's dreams come true, from her on-off boyfriend Rex to the mysterious Mark Valentine. Everyone, that is, except Sophie herself. Will Sophie put her money where her mouth wants it to be? Or are some things best kept in the realm of fantasy?
Daisy Lovell has had enough of her over-protective Texan millionaire father, Felix, and is determined to get away from his interfering ways.The last straw is when Felix forbids her to date a Puerto Rican boy. Determined to see some of the world, Daisy goes storm chasing across America for some sexual adventure. She certainly finds it, among truckers and bikers and a state trooper. What Daisy doesn't know is that Felix has sent personal bodyguard Max Decker to join the storm tour and watch over her. However, no one can foresee that hardman Decker will fall for Daisy in a big way. And he certainly has all the right, rugged stuff that the sexed-up Daisy craves!A sizzling exploration of sexy American men that no hot-blooded girl should be without!
Lisa Sherwin is a young and spirited fine-arts graduate. She has her own flat, a small but expanding antiques business and a healthy interest in sex. She is due to marry her wealthy, rugby-playing fianc , Paul, in a matter of weeks but as the day draws closer she's having second thoughts, especially as he wants her to give up work and sees her sexual needs as unimportant.The rural English village in which they live is home to some eccentric and bohemian characters including the passionate and cultured David Maccabene, who introduces Lisa to new ways of thinking and kinky ways of loving. In a bid to escape the stuffy conservatism of Paul's overbearing family, Lisa seeks satisfaction and help from her new-found friends. She manages this with alacrity, outraging her future in-laws and finding talents she never knew she had.By the best-selling author of Country Matters.
Fed up with working for someone else? Want to start your own business but don't want to wait years to reap the rewards? Take every shortcut you can ... and get there fast.As Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times, Rachel Bridge has met hundreds of the world's most successful entrepreneurs. Now she shares their expertise to show you the top 20 shortcuts to creating a booming business - and the energy-sapping, time-wasting traps to avoid along the way - so you too can make a million - asap.
Just when everyone is depending on her to win a vital contract, Melanie Brooks, a talented manager of a creative design team suddenly finds herself pitched into a tumultuous sexual adventure that makes her head spin and her backside sting.As the games and her desires escalate, her characteristic control and competence desert her and she sinks into an explicit world that threatens to sabotage her company's future.
Two musically gifted young cousins, Max (the girl with the boy's name) and Toni (vice versa) have been brought up under the tyrannous rule of Aunt Charlotte. Their lives are dramatically transformed when Charlotte gifts them to the charismatic Professor Labat, known as The Maestro. His talents extend far beyond his musical genius, and he prepares his prot g s for a novel kind of serfdom, in which their skill is combined with erotic artistry to refresh the jaded palates of the wealthy clientele in The Pleasure Dome, mansion of the notorious Lady Letitia (Titty) Laycorn.
The greater the degree of purity in a person, the darker the taint on their soul if they succumb to temptation.Not even the men and women of the holy orders are safe from corruption as Lady Stephanie Peabody and her host of greedy, voluptuous collaborators engage in the most sinisterforms of seductive manipulation. Not even the Prior, the nuns at the convent, or Stephanie's principled stepdaughter, Laura, are safe from the threat of spiritual corruption.With the aid of a powerful aphrodisiac, Stephanie's coven of cruel, demanding harlots tempt the righteous with the tawdry delights of the flesh - at the expense of their immortal souls.
Dinah is a tough-talking bisexual dominatrix with a weakness for redheads. So when she meets Grace, a beautiful hotel receptionist looking for excitement, she can't resist converting her to a life of lesbian submission. But Grace is forced to overcome her timidity and take up the whip herself when ex-boyfriend Aidan finds out about their relationship and decides to teach Mistress Dinah a lesson.
No Pain, No Gain is a collection of short stories united around their narrator's search for satisfaction through sexual submission. The pseudonymous author, a film-industry insider has spent his own life questing after strong and beautiful women who will dominate and hurt him - sometimes for money, but mostly for love. Inspired by the results of his search, No Pain, No Gain turns the usual male memoir of sexual conquests upside-down and inside-out.
Sultry ebony beauty Nipringa, and innocent blonde Candi Crupper, are both English girls living in Brazil, and studying at Dr Rodd's Acadamy, with its traditional English regime of bare-bottom caning. they escape to Rio for romantic adventure, but find the boys there just as enthusiastic about spanking them. Fleeing to the comfort of a seaside villa in the far north, they find themselves in thrall of the whip-wiedling master, who enslaves them on his tulipwood plantation.
Tomboy Caroline Letchmount enlists at Furrow Weald finishing school in Cornwall - motto 'Bare up and obey!' - with its military regime of merciless corporal punishment, and flagellent girl gangs, the Swanks and Stingers. When accustomed to pepper panties, bare-boxing, and canings from 'sixpence' to five shillings', she is ready to be auctioned as a girl-slave to rich voluptuaries.
Now in their mid-thirties and settled into married lifes, former debutantes Charlotte, Imogen and Seona continue to enjoy each other's company as playmates. But news of 'Kayla' - the mysterious and cruel courtesan, whose identity Charlotte herself once adopted - continues to reach them. Charlotte must find the new girl, and is secretly thrilled, having sorely missed the sexual dominance she enjoyed for so long. Can she resist returning to her thrilling world of bizarre flagellant delights?
Mitch, doyen of the London fetish scene, flees his hollow marriage for Thailand, paradise of easy sex. Enchanted by promiscuous Thai girls and ladyboys, he lives a fantasy of erotic adventures, introduces willing partners to deviance, and opens a go-go bar,with thrashing on the menu. Sucked into a vortex of insatiable desire, transvestism and corruption, he finds that behind the smiling masks, perversion is reality. But what is Mitch's own reality? A searing exposure of sado-masochism and shifting identity, Thai Honey begins where Platform leaves off...
Indigo, bookseller and CP-loving submissive, is obsessed with an antiquarian work of sadomasochism which eluded her father all his life. Caned, roped and shamed through the fleshpots of Europe, she will suffer any indignity to prevent Dervil Badon and his transsexual slave Natasha from getting their hands on her prize. But Dervil has no intention of allowing a mere submissive to own the legendary Book of Punishment.
Fudge and her mistress, Clarissa, belong to the Thames Valley Punishment Club, which puts on a series of kinky events at a refurbished army camp. Fudge is jealous when Clarissa seduces a young scaffolder, revealing his submissive side.But at least Fudge does not have to endure the camp for male re-education, where the Oxford Bluestockings, rivals of the TVCP, take measures to change Scott the scaffolder's tabloid-reading ways.
It's the 1930s, Hitler and Mussolini are building their war machine and Europe is a hotbed of political tension. Cia, a young, Anglo-Italian woman, escapes the mayhem, returning to England only to become embroiled in a web of sexual adventures. Her Italian lover has disappeared along with her clothes, lost somewhere between Florence and the Isle of Wight.Her British friends are carrying on in the manner to which they are accustomed: sailing their yachts and partying. However, this serene facade hides rivalries and forbidden pleasures. It's only a matter of time before Cia's two worlds collide - and Britain's bright young things have to face up to their responsibilities.
Yasmin and U seem like the perfect twenty-first century media couple. She's a scriptwriter for soaps and he's a magazine editor with a knack for tapping into the latest trends. Then, one evening, U confesses to Yasmin that he's 'having a thing' with a nineteen-year-old violinist - the precocious niece of Yasmin and U's old boss, the formidable Pandora Fairchild. Amelia, the violinist, turns out to be a catalyst for a whole series of erotic experiments that even Yasmin finds intriguing. In a haze of absinthe, lust and wild abandon, all parties find answers to questions about their sexuality they were once too afraid to ask.
Cassie's chic, smart and knows how to get her clients off the hook. However, when Governer Bryce 'Baby Face' Clarkson's libido lands him in hot water, Cassie's not so keen to bail out this particular red-blooded male. Bryce and Cassie were lovers six years earlier, until she caught the handsome charismatic politician cheating on her and dumped him. Now he's a potential presidential candidate, but he has to survive Queenie Amazon, a buxom dominatrix who is threatening to release a raunchy sex tape featuring the debauched governor in a collar and leash. Cassie is torn between revenge and professional commitment, and she is also becoming increasingly attracted to Bryce's brawny head of security, ex-mercinary Brian Collin. In an atmosphere charged with sexual power, the stakes are high as Election Day draws closer.
Erotic paranormal romance Two lovers, brought together by a forbidden passion, are on the run from their pasts. Veraine was once a commander in the Imperial army: Myrna was the divine priestess he seduced and stole from her desert temple. But travelling through a jungle kingdom, they fall prey to slavers and are separated. Veraine is left for dead. Myrna is taken as a slave to the city of the Tiger Lords; inhuman tyrants with a taste for human flesh. There she must learn the tricks of survival in a cruel and exotic court where erotic desire is not the only animal passion. Myrna still has faith that Veraine will find her. But Veraine, badly injured, has forgotten everything: his past, his lover, even his own identity. As he undertakes a journey through a fevered landscape of lush promise and supernatural danger, he knows only one thing - that he must somehow find the unknown woman who holds the key to his soul.
An erotic time-slip novel...Jenna Bright's light aircraft crash lands en-route to Scotland, hurtling her out of her hectic modern life as a courier pilot and back in time over two thousand years.Leaving behind her fianc Mick, who's more interested in bedding Jenna's friends than planning his wedding, Jenna faces iron-age Britain and is revered as a goddess by the Celtic villagers she encounters.Having no choice but to adapt while trying to find a way home, Jenna encounters mystery, magic and a sexual hunger equalled only by the powerful urge to survive. Caught in an erotic tangle between Brogan and Cathan, two of the village's most powerful men, Jenna finally glimpses a way home but, having never felt so sexually free and adored by so many, she's not sure she's quite ready to go back to her old life.Set in the present day and 300BC, Bright Fire literally combines the best of both worlds providing a primal yet fast-paced and erotic read where strong characters collide
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