Caught by the German occupation of France, Fred McCall and his employees, the undeniably attractive and sexy redhead Martha, along with her chaperone Anna, initially sought to escape amidst the withdrawal of Dunkirk. Fate had other ideas. Cut off from the north coast by sweeping Panzer Corps, Fred is stopped in a British Army lorry by an old business partner, now member of the German SS. Nazi Lieutenant Richter has a penchant for sadism and a fancy for Martha, which leads them to a farm where other Germans are operating a scam to line their pockets. They endure the boredom of seclusion until Richter announces a plan to go to England into to retrieve five loads of S & M apparatus Fred has ready for shipment to France. However, Richter has other reasons for this escapade. A steamy tale of partnership between enemies in a world turned upside down where not everyone is at war. From selling apparatus to sexy lingerie, Martha grabs any opportunity to suffer the lash and satisfy her ongoing lust for sex.

After surrendering to the Red Army in 1945, Irma sets out on a trail of self-preservation, falsehoods her only defence. While waiting for Russian justice a Colonel takes an interest in the young woman, first despatching her on a hellish journey to a Siberian Gulag, before conversely saving her from the gallows and taking her under his wing. Love? Lust? Intrigue? Reason falls below Anatoly Kuznetsov’s motives, and the couple form a loose partnership, he with his goals, Irma with hers. Appointed by Stalin to battle the growing gang culture (The Bratva), Anatoly enrolls Irma, changing her name to Nikita Ivanov, to hide her from the war crimes investigators, where the woman in the company of her comrade Johanna Wolf, offer a creative ability to the guerrilla warfare they find themselves engaged in. While Anatoly pursues Irma’s history, the woman haunted by an old man, cuts a future while fending off the truth of her past. Only Johanna knows that truth, and the girl proves just as evasive as Irma.

Raised without affection in the post war tenements and care homes of North London, Dulcie had to come to terms with the complexities of bi-sexuality and masochism as well as a sexual drive incompatible with acceptability. With two competing boyfriends that trod the wrong side of the law, one blatantly the other more surreptitiously, and a French emigre she walked a difficult path through the moralistic society of the day. On the one side she had Eddy a petty criminal dreaming of the big time and on the other Ray, a wheeling dealing pimp with a love for money, sex and lies and little else, and in the middle she had Lil a hardnosed landlady hell bent on controlling her life. Slowly Dulcie comes to accept what she is and with a few setbacks sorts out the life she wants avoiding the beckoning finger of vice. Along that path two very good friends aid and abet her, Frenchie the beautiful blonde war refugee and Carol a thirty year old café proprietor and pay for tart. Amidst a heavy mix of spanking and heterosexual/lesbian sex/bondage the group take on a London mobster who Ray has a long held grudge against. When a lorry load of confiscated cigarettes go missing the criminals gather each pointing a finger. Long Arm Coulson a hardnosed detective is put on the case further exacerbating nerves each wanting to know who done it.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book is a classic satire in the form of a dictionary on which Bierce worked for decades. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in 1911. A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. The definitions provide satirical, witty and often politically pointed representations of the words that is seeks to "define". The Devil's Dictionary has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce".

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Jamaica Anansi Stories is a collection of folklore by Martha Warren Beckwith. Having studied under famed ethnographer Franz Boas at Columbia University, Beckwith dedicated her career to recording and contextualizing the traditions of people from around the world. Specializing in Jamaican, Hawaiian, Sioux, and Mandan-Hidatsa cultures, Beckwith published widely acclaimed works of folklore and ethnography through her interviews with native storytellers around the world. “One great hungry time. Anansi couldn't get anyt'ing to eat, so he take up his hand-basket an' a big pot an' went down to the sea-side to catch fish. When he reach there, he make up a large fire and put the pot on the fire, an' say, ‘Come, big fish!’” Opening her collection with the lighthearted and instructional “Animal Stories,” many of which record the conflicts between Anansi and the Tiger, Beckwith introduces her reader to one of central figures of Jamaican folklore. Associated with resistance, play, and resourcefulness, Anansi was a symbol of hope for a people subjected to centuries of slavery. Situated alongside similar tales from Europe, popular songs, riddles, and jokes, the Anansi stories form an invaluable part of Jamaican culture and of other Caribbean and American cultures who trace their origins to West Africa. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Martha Warren Beckwith’s Jamaica Anansi Stories is a classic of anthropological literature reimagined for modern readers.