«You shall not kill, son, you shall not kill, because no man can be the same after taking another man's life.»

Fernando, a young literary editor and the son of a persecuted Spanish Republican, decides to flee a Spain battered by the Civil War. His friends, Catalina and Eulogio, escaping their own circumstances, join him in the adventure. The three young friends live a great story of unwavering friendship and loyalty which takes them on a journey through Second World War Alexandria, occupied Paris, Lisbon, Prague, Boston and Chile.

An ode to friendship

Fernando, Catalina and Eulogio have grown …

Originally published in Spanish as Voto de tinieblas, this is a translation by Kieran Tapsell. Among the stories and characters of Vow of Darkness it unfolds a reflection around the prohibitions and dangers that a nun living the confused and violent period of independence from Spain must face when she decides to be a writer in a world where writing is an exclusively male activity.
Alongside these adventures is woven a reflection about personal and collective memory. It outlines how the indigenous population extinguishes destroyed by war, smallpox and shame. And yet, there are characters trying to give sense to their …

Sur es la historia del viaje más importante de Sir Ernest Shackleton, narrada por él mismo: la Expedición Imperial Transantártica. Sintiendo que el orgullo de su patria, Gran Bretaña, estaba perdido al no haber sido el primer país en alcanzar el Polo Sur geográfico —el noruego Roald Amundsen lo había conquistado en 1911—, Shackleton planificó un nuevo viaje con grandes ambiciones. No sólo se proponía llegar al Polo Sur, sino que soñaba con atravesar a pie el vasto continente blanco, desde el mar de Weddell hasta el mar de Ross, una distancia total de 2900 kilómetros.
En los albores de la …

In his book True Love is not Common, author Peter Silwamba chronicles events that show how friendships can be formed and lost. The love story centers on characters living in the small family village of Mbalabala. Two cousins, Ebusi and Mwaka, are the beautiful wom­en in their family. They attract a lot of men within Mbalabala and surround­ing villages. Ebusi marries a man named Mumbi, but her family doesn’t love him because he is poor. Ebusi loves Mumbi regardless of his income or her family’s feelings. Her cousin Mwaka, however, loves men for their wealth. She marries a rich man …

From the Age of Exploration hails this tale of lost souls, lands and creeds. Sent on a Pacific expedition by his licentious wife, a naturalist from Amsterdam barely survives a shipwreck. Washed ashore on a volcanic island, he is immediately seized by the inhabitants – a civilization exclusively of women. Somehow these Sapphic savages have survived and even thrived by sacrificing males to their mountaingoddess. Condemned to The Hunt, this member of the outlawed gender is tortured, terrorized and deliberately debilitated before being run through a gauntlet into the jungle. Facing hideously fatal rituals upon recapture, he flees into a …

Hank’s living a dream life – a successful stockbroker with a hot car and a hot wife, who just happens to be a top surgeon. He’s also a cheating snake, who knows he’s bound to get caught. If his private playroom suite is discovered, he’ll be on his way to Ecuador in a heartbeat. What he doesn’t count on is one of his mistreated bimbos blowing the whistle, leaving him chained and gagged in the fun closet of his penthouse suite. Wife Melinda’s wrath is matched only by her cunning intelligence. Seems Hank ‘accidentally’ drives his fancy sports car off …

BDSM Romance. England, early 19thcentury. Elizabeth Bennet is an independentminded young woman, determined not to be ruled by men. She enjoys her sexual passions with her maid Nell and a farmhand John. But when she’s introduced to Mr. Darcy, she’s finds herself smitten, despite his haughty nature and belief that men should be dominant in the bedroom. Although her attraction for Darcy grows, after learning of his taste for perverse sexual practices, she rejects his proposal of marriage. Meanwhile Elizabeth’syounger sister Lydia runs away with Wickham, a handsome but unscrupulous young soldier, who seduces her then prostitutes her. Although Wickham …

The final part of Journey into Chastity finds John even more deeply entwined in the triangle of love, denial and physical torment with two beautiful women. Laura, his fiancée, and Christine, her housemate, now seem to be locked in a power play to be in overall charge of the relationship. John is always the longsuffering victim, finding himself enduring even more devious physical and mental tortures, and sexual denial. Outside of his sex life, John is now excelling in all of his goals. He’s honed his body to please both of his Mistresses, and is working harder than ever to …

Robert Dawson, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency, is sent to Afghanistan to stop the flow of heroin made from the country’s biggest crop, opium. With the help of Kate Conway, a freelance journalist, and Vizier Ashraf, a shadowy Taliban leader, Robert is disguised as an opium field hand. In Helmand Province he learns the secrets of the Afghan drug trade, and illegally enters Iran with his "boss" and a fifteen-year-old chemist. The principal buyer is known as The Scorpion. A sale of 25 kg of heroin is completed and traced to New York City, where a bust is …

Someone said to Nick Johnson, “There is no difference between a cock and a clit. It is just a matter of size.” Well to a straight guy there’s a big difference. And Nick Johnson was as straight as it gets. He had so many girls in college, he couldn’t return for the second semester. Nick was down on his luck. He was alone in a great big world and couldn’t begin to get ahead. He had no job, no future and no family to help him out.His nights were spent on the internet, reading porn and watching videos of women …

Martin Jackson is the first Negro slave born at Mont Blanc. Martin and Master Tom's youngest daughter Sarah are close in age. He is well liked by Sarah's family and often accompanies Sarah and Master Tom on his business trips to Charleston. It was on one of these trips that Martin realizes the difference between him and Sarah. She is free, white, and rich. He is only a piece of property. Martin vows to one day be free. To take care of himself, he needs to learn to read and write. He convinces Sarah to teach him secretly. The young …

At one and twenty, Lady Angelica Fitzhugh, the youngest sibling of the Earl of Hillcrest, has been rusticating in rural Hampshire for two years. After her first Season, her betrothed managed only second place in a duel to the death just two days before their wedding. Out of the blue, her papa has informed her that to save the Hillcrest dynasty, in five days she is to wed the rather ancient Earl of Scarborough, become the step-mama to his twin daughters, and sail to Australia on her husband’s swansong voyage as an admiral in Her Majesty’s Navy. After two engagements …