Vol. 4

Maxim Jakubowski's skilful editorship has resulted in a collection of the best erotic writing from 2000-2001. Contributors come from the UK and America, plus Europe, the Antipodes, South America and the Asian subcontinent. The book contains a mixture of established talents such as Michael Hemmingson, M. Christian, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Susannah Indigo, Sarah Veitch and Mark Ramsden, plus acclaimed authors who are welcome newcomers to this genre, such as Lauren Henderson, Matt Thorne and Helen Lederer. Stories include: Saucy goings-on in a British Rail carriage(Helen Lederer) A trilogy of stories about threesomes - as seen from all angles! (Daniel James Cabrillo) The merits of Jane Austen vs the Internet when it comes to steamy sex (Lauren Henderson) The not-so-secret life of a cinema usherette(Jacqueline Lucas) A young man follows an Internet trail of sex with surprising results (Matt Thorne) The erotic interaction between an author and his editor (Anya Ross)

Selections of the finest images of the world's leading erotica photographers, including Eric Kroll, Charles Gatewood, Petter Hegre, Chas Ray Krider, Emma Delves-Broughton, Larry Utley, Juan Carlos Rivas, Craig Morey and Gabrielle Rigon.

This follow-up volume to the all black-and-white MBO Erotic Photography celebrates the nude female form through the colour work of no less than 78 different photographers. Among the contributors are a surprising number of female photographers of the nude, many practicing the art of self-portraiture - a chance to see how gender can sometimes influence the subtle way of looking at the body.

Also featured are a father and daughter team; a photographer who re-appears as a model in two further portfolios; the grandson of the famed American photographer Edward Weston; a mix of professional and amateur photographers; and contributions from the UK, the USA, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Russia, Argentina, France, Israel, Italy, Poland, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia and Holland.


The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski. This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir and hardboiled crime to ingenious puzzles and amateur sleuthing. Packed with top names like Colin Dexter, Christopher Fowler, Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Barnard, Peter James, Natasha Cooper, Sophie Hannah, and many more

The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski. This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir and hardboiled crime to ingenious puzzles and amateur sleuthing. Packed with top names such as: Ian Rankin (including a new Rebus), Alexander McCall Smith, David Hewson, Christopher Brookmyre, Simon Kernick, A.L. Kennedy, Louise Walsh, Kate Atkinson, Colin Bateman, Stuart McBride and Andrew Taylor. The full list of contributors is as follows: Ian Rankin, Mick Herron, Denise Mina, Edward Marston, Marilyn Todd, Kate Atkinson, Stuart MacBride, David Hewson, Alexander McCall Smith, Nigel Bird, Robert Barnard, Lin Anderson, Allan Guthrie, A.L. Kennedy, Simon Kernick, Roz Southey, Andrew Taylor, Sheila Quigley, Phil Lovesey, Declan Burke, Keith McCarthy, Christopher Brookmyre, Gerard Brennan, Matthew J. Elliott, Colin Bateman, Ray Banks, Simon Brett, Adrian Magson, Jay Stringer, Amy Myers, Nick Quantrill, Stephen Booth, Paul Johnston, Zoe Sharp, Paul D. Brazill, Peter Lovesey, Louise Welsh, Liza Cody, Peter Turnbull and Nicholas Royle.

Leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski presents this year's must-have collection of British mystery fiction.

This latest volume of the acclaimed annual collection presents 35 short stories of murder mystery, selected from the very cream of new British crime fiction.

Contributors include John Mortimer, Alexander McCall Smith, Colin Dexter, Christopher Fowler, Robert Barnard, Anne Perry, Peter Lovesey, Ken Bruen, and many more.

It's ideal for anyone who has ever enjoyed a good murder-mystery. A page-turning compendium of British talent to capture the imagination of readers around the world.


A collection of 48 original, sensual and provocative sexual adventures, the twelfth volume of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica offers the very best new work of both deservedly well-known names and up-and-coming talents, including Peggy Munson, for the first time; Elissa Wald; French author Emma Becker; award-winning SF writer Kij Johnson; an acclaimed crime author writing as Pat McStone; San Francisco photographer Charles Gatewood; and newcomer I. J. Miller.

Here you will find an exciting diversity of erotic writing which explores the full breadth of human emotional, sensual and sexual experience - vanilla is emphatically not the only flavour - in stories which are by turns intriguing, shocking, fascinating and enchanting. Other contributors include Michael Hemmingson, Victoria Janssen, Ashley Lister and Kristina Lloyd.



'Contract between Czarina and her Submissive Anaïs' by Gala Fur and Veronique Bergen

'The Horniest Girl in San Francisco' by Charles Gatewood

'Spar' by Kij Johnson

'Whore' by D. L. King

'The Blood Moon Kiss' by Mitzi Szereto

'Stella' by Saskia Walker

And many more . . .


Hidden gems from the earliest days of mystery fiction. The years 1850-1905 represent the pre-Golden Age of crime writing. Drawn exclusively from those earliest days of mystery fiction, this revealing anthology includes a surprising number of authors not commonly associated today with crime fiction - names like Alexander Dumas, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stephenson, Arnold Bennett, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Over three-quarters of the stories in this fascinating volume have not been reproduced since the 1950s. They include: Guy de Maupassant's "The Hand"; Charles Dickens's "Hunted Down"; Maurice LeBlanc's gentleman-burglar Arsene Lupin; Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of the Three Students"; Robert Louis Stephenson's "Markheim"; Edgar Poe's Chevaller Auguste Dupin, the first genuine fictional detective; Baroness Orczy's "Old Man in the Corner"; and EW Hornung's immensely popular thief Raffles.

The very best of over ten years of the Best New Erotica series and other erotica titles compiled by Maxim Jakubowski. Stories have been taken from all volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica with the exception of recent volumes 8 and 9. They have also been drawn from the Mammoth Book of International Erotica, Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica, Mammoth Book of Erotica, Mammoth Book of New Erotica and Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels. The anthology is likely to include stories by Thomas S. Roche; Poppy Z. Brite; Alison Tyler; Lucy Taylor; Matt Thorne; M. Christian; Michael Hemmingson; Mike Kimera; Tara Alton; Marilyn Jaye-Lewis; Savannah Lee; Heather Corinna; Carol Queen; Donna George Storey; Lauren Henderson; Vicki Hendricks; O'Neil De Noux; Cara Bruce; Mark Timlin; Graham Joyce; Conrad Williams; Claude Lalumiere; Kristina Lloyd; and Mitzi Szereto.

The Mammoth Book of Erotica

by Maxim Jakubowski

Published 10 October 1994
Taking you on a journey through the garden of sensual delights that is erotic literature, this collection aims to educate, excite, surprise and instruct you through the writings of Kathy Acker, Anne Rice, Marco Vasssi, Vicki Hendricks, Michael Hemmingson, Thomas Roche and Stewart Home.

Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders.

This volume collects not just all the key factual evidence but also 20 different arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper, such as that advanced by Patricia Cornwell. Contributions are from the world's leading Ripperologists, including William Beadle, Melvyn Fairclough, Martin Fido, Shirley Harrison, James Tully and Colin Wilson.

The identity of Jack the Ripper has plagued professional historians, criminologists, writers and amateur enthusiasts. The many suspects include Montague John Druitt, Walter Sickert, Aaron Kosminski, Michael Ostrog, William Henry Bury, Dr Tumblety and James Maybrick. The only certainty is that Ripperologist have not found an invididual on whom they can all agree.

The essays are supported by a detailed chronology, extensive bibliography and filmography.


The seventh annual collection of the very best of British crime-writing from established bestsellers and newcomers alike. Thirty-five stories from top contemporary names in British crime fiction, such as Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith, John Mortimer, and Colin Dexter. Publishing News calls it an essential read for all crime fans.

The KC Suite
Memories of an affair in words and stolen dialogue, as a lover reconstructs the anatomy of lust and love and the dangerous ways in which they combine.

A Map of The Pain
A married woman flees her past life and goes on the road. A sexual calvary of encounters and degradation which climaxes in a dangerous club in New Orleans.

Hotel Room Fuck
Two strangers meet and explore their limits in a torrent of passion which quickly spills over into the more extreme side of BDSM.

Bottomless on Bourbon
Lovers come together and come apart in the lusty atmosphere of New Orelans' French Quarter, with encounters of all sorts and a vocabulary of desire stretched to its very limits.

Edward Hopper Doesn't Live Here Any More
A hired assassin on a job in downtown Los Angeles comes across a submissive woman who witnesses his hit. Should he spare her or not.

The Rise and Fall of The Burlesque Empire
A tale of time and travel and Times Square from the age of burlesque to the seedy years of peep joints and sex shows.


Over 130 short, short erotic stories of about 1,500 words each, or over 500 pages of outstanding erotica in bite-sized pieces, exploring the full range of human sensual and sexual experience.

Each one of eight sections is devoted to a specific erotic kink, such as spanking, submission, voyeurism, uniforms or bondage, providing an astonishing diversity of erotica between the covers of one book.

Despite its length, this short-form erotica from the world's leading writers remains inventive, provocative, sensual, and above all intelligent. These are sexual adventures to intrigue, shock, puzzle, and both scare and arouse. Mere titillation is never enough.


Unputdownable short erotic fiction from the most outstanding writers in the field. Once again, Maxim Jakubowski has put together a masterful selection of over 40 stories of sexual encounters from every corner of the world. From both acclaimed writers and exceptional newcomers, this is powerful erotica which explores the full range of human sensual and sexual experience.

Ever since the collapse of the Tower of Babel, sex has been the common language uniting men and women throughout the world. Erotic prose is not just an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon but a universal one - as this revised new edition of the influential "Mammoth" volume gloriously demonstrates, with a miscellany of exciting stories from over 16 different countries and languages Editor Maxim Jakubowski has cherry-picked the finest new writing from countries, such as France and Italy, both so fertile right now that they could fill their own volumes. The anthology features stories by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, Orange Prize-shortlisted Stella Duffy, plus ten previously uncollected tales including: 'Jou Pu Tuan' by Li Yu, 'The Sex Lives of Chameleons' by C.D. Formetta, 'Three for the Money' by Marilyn Jaye-Lewis, 'Memories that Linger On' By Carlos Benito Camacho, 'Opera' by Sonia Rykiel, 'The New Fiancee' by N.T. Morley, and 'Tarot' by Florence Dugas.

Some of the most popular and innovative writers of erotic literature today have contributed to these twelve short novels that explore everything from love and longing to the darker emotions of pain, ecstasy, and total submission of the self to another. Longer and more satisfying than a short story, novellas allow the author to create perfect settings for thrilling and imaginative worlds, with a greater sense of involvement for the reader.

Amongst those selected we find:

The promiscous escapades of a journalist and photographer in Thailand.
The success of an author's first book that ends five years of celibacy with an astonishing series of encounters.
The journey an older man takes to New York to meet a young sex slave on the internet.
A retelling of the classic tale of a maid's submission to her dominant master.


Maxim Jakubowski has once again compiled a blockbuster collection of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK. His aim is always to present the whole breadth of crime, mystery and thriller writing, from gentle stories of detection to puzzling historical labyrinths full of devious characters and sharp social comment about our imperfect society in some savage, and often scary stories.

Last year saw a fifth Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger award for the series - for 'Homework' by Phil Lovesey, whose work features again in this year's collection.

There is a new story by Ann Cleeves, whose fictional sleuth Vera Stanhope has created such a buzz in ITV prime-time drama Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn.

Making their debut in Best British Crime are many established names such as Reginald Hill, R. J. Ellory, John Lawton and Stuart Neville. Also represented are writers such as L. C. Tyler, Chris Ewan, Ian Ayris, Col Bury, Matt Hilton and Christine Poulson, some of whom have already made a name for themselves, while others are at the start of hugely promising careers.


Witty and arousing, here is the very finest in new erotic writing from the year 2007-08. With more than 40 stories this acclaimed annual offers an addictive menu of sex from all around the world.

This year features outstanding work from both established masters and newer talents including Sage Vivant, O'Neil De Noux, Sophie Mouette, Thomas S. Roche, M. Christian, Saskia Walker and Alison Tyler.

The stories include:

Jeremy Edwards, Slightly Ajar

Lisette Ashton, Victoria's Hand

Kelly Jameson, A Night in Cameroon

M. Christian, I Am Jo's Vibrator

Thomas S. Roche, Amour Noir

Landon Dixon, Matching Skirt and Kneepads

Rachel Kramer Bussel, Late for a Spanking


Fresh and arousing, this is the only volume of contemporary erotica to source the best writing from both new and celebrated authors all around the world, including Kristina Lloyd, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Laurence Klavan, and Polly Frost.

The original Kama Sutra was designed to help lovers to explore the height of sensual and erotic pleasure. Since then numerous variations have been produced on this manual for love-making. Here, in one giant volume, is the fullest ever collection of Kama Sutra positions and its modern variants, including all the positions featured in the original text plus over 50 more.

Each position is clearly explained, with specially commissioned illustrations by award-winning artist Carolyn Weltman and Louisa Minkin. Also included are little known, revelatory stories of how each position developed, plus the full, unexpurgated hstory of the Kama Sutra's own genesis.

Packed with beautiful illustrations and sensual nuggets of inspiration, The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra is the fullest ever collection of the world's most popular lovemaking text.