April 2010
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Love Amateurs
by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Anti-hero, and a would-be lover whose longing turns him into a buffoon: Prokopiev’s book is, surprisingly, a very English type. Heir to Shakespeare’s Bottom, Henry Fielding’s trickster Tom Jones, and even Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim, he could also share a pint or two with the deprecating genii loci of today’s British poetry: Alan Brownjohn’s Ludbrooke, Christopher Reid’s Mr Mouth or one of Hugo Williams’s frank self-portraits. But Peeper also belongs to the wider family of “the little man”, struggling under a weight of circumstance he has no notion how to negotiate. Living among, without managing to live by, conventions, the Peeper is a descendent of that wry Everyman who has suffered and been compromised since mediaeval times. He is a Good Soldier Svejk, a Charlie Chaplin, more than he is a Humbert Humbert or an Alexander Portnoy.
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March 1991Erotische Gedichte
Gedichte, Skizzen und Fragmente
by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Andreas Ammer, Andreas Ammer
Die vorliegende Ausgabe versucht, das »Erotische Werk« von Goethe aus den überlieferten Notizen zu rekonstruieren: erotische Skizzen und Geständnisse, priapäische Texte, sinnesfrohe Gedichte, fröhlich-freizügige Fassungen bekannter Goethe-Texte wie die Römischen Elegien, die Venezianischen Epigramme, die Walpurgisnacht sowie böse Parodien auf das eigene Werk (Werther als Voyeur, Faust als Hanswurst) und lustvolle Überlegungen zu erotischen Klassikern.
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May 2001Spectaculum 72
Vier moderne Theaterstücke
by Jon Fosse, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Else Lasker-Schüler, Dea Loher, Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel
Jon Fosse: Der NameDer Vater redet am liebsten gar nicht, die Mutter spricht vorzugsweise von sich, also über ihre Krankheit, die hochschwangere Tochter besucht nach langer Zeit die Eltern und möchte sich gerne aussprechen, hat sich aber mit ihrem Freund einen großen Schweiger ausgesucht - bleibt ihr Jugendfreund Barne. Mit ihm scheint die Familie zum Leben zu erwachen.Else Lasker-Schüler: Arthur Aronymus und seine VäterDas Stück spielt um 1840 in Westfalen und zeigt, wie eine jüdische Familie, der Gutsbesitzer Moritz Schüler mit seinen dreiundzwanzig Kindern, mit der wachsenden Pogromstimmung in der christlichen Umgebung konfrontiert wird.Dea Loher: Klaras Verhältnisse Klara sucht eine echte Lebensaufgabe, einen Platz im Leben. Bei ihrer Reise durch die bundesrepublikanische Wirklichkeit begegnen ihr die unterschiedlichsten Begierden und Sehnsüchte - eine tragikomische Gratwanderung zwischen hochfliegenden Wünschen und banalen Abgründen.Roland Schimmelpfennig: Die arabische NachtSiebter Stock, Wohnung 32: Wie von einer unbestimmten Sehnsucht getrieben, treffen sich hier in dieser »arabischen Nacht« Franziska, Fatima, ihr Freund Kalil, der Hausmeister Lomeier und Karpati, der Voyeur.
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DESPERATELY SEEKING DALÍ
by Ian Castello-Cortes
Dali gets the Desperately Seeking treatment and it's fascinating. The upper-middle class, but very provincially Catalan, background; the possibly abusive priests at school; his time at the Oxbridge of Madrid as a student, holding his talentless teachers (compared to him) in contempt, but developing his surrealist ideas with Bunuel and Lorca. Meeting Gala in Paris, whilst hob-nobbing with the mega rich. The wealthy British patrons, like Edward James, who fell in love with him in London, and his escape from a war-torn Europe to spend time on both East and West Coast USA. It's a grippng story, and the locations surprising, not least as despite his mega wealth, he followed a cycle of his Dalinian year once back in Europe: Cadaques, Paris, New York and back. And in the midst of this the prodigious work-rate of a genius, but one who was uber succesful and commercially hyper-astute. And threaded through all this, his strange sado-massochistic-voyeuristic sexuality, and a tormented, in later life, open marriage with Gala. Castello-Cortes packs a huge mount into this small volume – a total treat for all Dali fans, or the most perfect introduction to his art for new aficionados. Great photos and maps throughout.
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FictionThe Reason We Remain
by Marlen Pelny
This novel begins with the murder of 14-year-old Etty – and ends with it, too. Just the way that for Heide, Etty’s mother, life is over to a certain extent but, at the same time, beginning again anew. Because: it’s governed by a new rhythm. From now on, Heide will always be half composed of her missing daughter. From now on, her existence will centre on the question of how to go on living. How to get out of bed each day. How to go on living in the apartment that was also Etty’s home. How to remember her laugh, her cheeky answers, her delicate facial features without falling apart. The people Heide can rely on for support are her closest friends. And us. With impressive precision, Marlen Pelny portrays violence where it actually happens: in our immediate vicinity. Writing with clarity but not voyeurism, unsparingly yet not brutally, she tells a finely drawn, complex story of loss and solidarity, of grief and love – of an aftermath. In the end, we are united. In the end, we are many. In the end, this novel is a linguistically powerful revolt: against fatal injustices. Against the violence we encounter on a daily basis and which we try to survive.
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December 2021The Master of Winter
by Djenny Bergiers
Jack Frost has a plan. For centuries, he has only been around for a few weeks in December, making sure that winter goes smoothly before going back to sleep. But this year, he plans to confront the Guardian and change the course of his life forever. But his encounter with the girl in the red cap will turn all his plans upside down.
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July 2021The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
by Dean Jobb
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals, he has the nerve and he has the knowledge,” Sherlock Holmes observed. At the time the words of the fictional detective appeared in The Strand Magazine, a real-life Canadian doctor was murdering women in London’s downtrodden Lambeth neighbourhood. Dr. Thomas Cream had been a suspect in two deaths in Canada, and killed four people in Chicago before arriving in London in 1891 and using pills laced with strychnine to kill prostitutes. The "Lambeth Poisoner" became one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Dean Jobb reveals how bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and failed prosecutions allowed Cream to evade detection and kill again. Alongside an inside account of Scotland Yard’s desperate search for a brazen killer, Jobb explores how the morality and hypocrisy of the Victorian era enabled Cream to poison the vulnerable and desperate women who had turned tohim for help.
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THE SAGA OF SOULS #1 THE BLUE SOUL
When Oksana meets Max, the attraction she feels for him is instantaneous, almost too strong. But Max is fierce and difficult to understand. What does he hide deep inside?
by Océane Ghanem
One winter evening, Oksana goes to a nightclub to celebrate her best friend Steeve’s birthday. To get away from his sister Camelia, she sits at the bar and orders a beer. Oksana eventually notices a man in the crowd who catches her eye. He fascinates her upon first glance. She herself doesn’t understand this obsession of hers, this want to know his every move throughout the evening. She only wishes to rid herself of the sadness she feels deep down.As for Max, he enjoys his evening with his friends and roommates. However, the constant gaze of this woman at the bar intrigues and disturbs him much more than he would like. He tests her reactions, sometimes by slipping away from the dance floor while she looks away, sometimes by provoking her with mindless flirting and dancing. This curiosity will finally drive him to join her at the bar. A relationship develops between them over time, creating a strong and powerful bond.Despite this, both protagonists have secrets they would rather keep to themselves. How far will they be willing to go to prevent the other from knowing?
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The Second Penis
by J.D.B.
Londinyia: a Capital in Crisis. Gripped by a species of perversion without parallel in the long, sordid annals of the Alpha Male. As the Decency Tax extends across all districts and zones, the Emancipation Party declares war on the deviant insurgency. Amid the vast armoury of weapons employed, the Proctallator, irSpex and the notorious Schnuffler, stand primed to unleash an avalanche of moral fury. Meanwhile, the Spectre of Deceit looms over the Party HQ, the Pyramex, rocked by dysfunctional mandroids, a Steering Committee mired in scandal and mutiny among the D-Squad ranks. Only Corporal Lillian Scarpello and her loyal beta-adjutant, Sir Lucien Picene, it seems, stand between Londinyia – and the Abyss. The explanation: The Second Penis is a satire on the City of London and its assumptions about behaviour, and supposed patterns of normality, taken to an absurd level. The author: (location unknown) lives in a shed in Myrddin’s Precinct where he communes with drunken spirits and entities, and launches vitriolic assaults against the Satanic Inertias of the Capital, soon to be revisited in The Gnat. A series of endless night-shifts in the Ancient City of London drives him to the terrifying conclusion that its entire existence is a Hoax – a bankrupt Government, media and economy imprisoned in a Tower of Babble. But can a man certified as insane – twice – complete his mission to rescue the intellectual heritage of his Nation? Who knows. For now, he sleeps amid the empty quarts and flasks, waiting to spring forth from his chrysalis...
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Thriller / suspenseAugust 2012Wotcha
by Kevin Saunders
Wotcha’ a contraction of the 15th century English greeting ‘what chere be with you?’ Watcher n a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur. Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who’s condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can’t not see, he’s turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard ‘Winston’ Smith who’s watched by millions among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who’s orchestrating revenge for Winston’s teenage betrayal through the sinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain. Say WOTCHA! to high class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenage son Joe, who’s abducted along with his girlfriend by a sinister ‘Christian’ cult, which leaves the kids to die, hogtied and helpless in a derelict drainage tunnel slowly filling with sewage. Watched by the world’s media, Winston, Daisy and Bart reunite to use fame and the Daisy Chain to save two teenage lives and their own souls from the filth that’s about to drown them. Wotcha! is a comic spit in the eye of born again zealots with a wink and a twinkle to the rest of us but it’s also deadly serious. Mining a rich seam of coalblack humour and sex, drugs and rock and roll, it starts on a bittersweet nostalgia trip and builds up to the pace of a thriller. CONTROVERSIAL STUFF? Its themes and explicit language make this a candidate for one of those ‘parental advisory’ stickers they put on CDs these days. Does that make WOTCHA! a book that people aged under sixteen shouldn’t read? In the author’s opinion absolutely not. ‘If rude words and references to sex, drugs and rock and roll upset you per se, this book’s not for you. But if you believe, as I do, that a sense of humour is what separates “naughty” from “evil”, I think you might enjoy this story, laugh at the funny bits, think about the serious bits and read the redemption between the lines.’
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Erotic fictionDecember 2012Aphrodite Gets a Piece of the Action
Lust: Story 1 from the Seven Deadly Sins anthology
by KD Grace
Aphrodite Gets a Piece of the Action by K. D. Grace - A young voyeur is faced with the almighty task of going global with Lust!
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Erotic fictionDecember 2012Aphrodite Gets a Piece of the Action (Unillustrated)
Lust: Story 1 from the Seven Deadly Sins anthology
by KD Grace
Aphrodite Gets a Piece of the Action by K. D. Grace - A young voyeur is faced with the almighty task of going global with Lust!
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FictionJuly 2020La playa y el tiempo
by Ernesto Calabuig
"Writing is daring, like taking your clothes off on a beach”. This is the start to the first of the short stories that make up this book, the story of a writer who, at the age of forty-seven, decides to stop the inertia and decline of her life and not come back from her summer holiday. The main character of Beijing-Xàtiva, on board of a train, will also find out the almost unfathomable implications of trying to bring the past back. Through this collection we see a whole gallery of diverse characters that share the common denominator of a fight against the frantic pace of time: school teachers, flamenco dancers, old sea men, Japanese engineers, fathers that watch their children grow and drift away, impossible lovers from an old translation academy, high school lovers who lost track of each other, men visited by Greek philosophers and tormented by a dream, French guitarists, voyeurs of other people’s lives… Even Leonard Cohen portrayed in detail during his years in a Buddhist monastery, in silence, away from the stage. “Escribir es un atrevimiento, como quedarse desnuda en una playa”. Así comienza el primero de los relatos que componen este libro, la historia de una escritora que, a sus cuarenta y siete años, decide detener la inercia y el declive de su vida y no regresar de un veraneo. También el protagonista de Pekín-Xàtiva, a bordo de un tren, descubrirá las implicaciones casi fantasmales de intentar recuperar el pasado. Por esta colección desfila toda una galería de variados personajes que comparten el denominador común de afrontar el vértigo del paso del tiempo: maestras infantiles, bailaoras de flamenco, ancianos del mar del Norte, ingenieros japoneses, padres que ven a sus hijos crecer y alejarse, amantes imposibles de una vieja academia de traducciones, amores de instituto a los que se les perdió la pista, hombres visitados por filósofos griegos y atormentados por un sueño, guitarristas franceses, voyeurs de las vidas ajenas… Y hasta el propio Leonard Cohen retratado al detalle en sus años de silencio, apartado de los escenarios en un monasterio budista."
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August 2021De son oeil
by Maryse Pagé
Anju, a lonely and introverted teenager, speaks inwardly to Noah, the most popular student in his school, whom he considers his ideal: Noah is handsome, brilliant, a leader, athletic, ambitious, and empathetic. He is person Anju admires, to whom he tries to get closer, someone he would like to resemble. To the point of becoming one with him. Anju offers Noah remedial maths in exchange for basketball lessons. He monitors his social media posts and hooks up with Megan, who resists to this more-than-perfect being. A student trip to New York offers him the perfect opportunity to spy his idol and his devoted fans even more. His plan seems to work: Noah gradually takes him under his wing and introduces him to rap. However, a disturbing event puts a stop to his almost obsessive voyeurism and opens his eyes to the lure of appearances...
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Erotic fictionDecember 2012Seven Deadly Sins (Unillustrated)
Seven tales of venial vice!
by KD Grace, Rebecca Bond, Victoria Blisse, Lily Harlem, Lexie Bay, Lucy Felthouse, Sarah Masters
Seven erotic stories from seven sinful sirens. The Seven Deadly Sins have never been so sexy! Aphrodite Gets a Piece of the Action by K. D. Grace A young voyeur finds himself faced with the almighty task of going global with Lust! Caged by Rebecca Bond Greed pushes a policewoman straight to the top. But her quest for power uncovers more desire than she ever knew she had! Glutton to Gourmet by Victoria Blisse Anabel has never known when to say when. But the dashing Roman shows her that quality is just as delicious as quantity. Green Eyed Monster by Lily Harlem Penis Envy takes on a whole new meaning when Helen hatches a plan to use her own cock to its fullest extent! An Indolent Seduction by Lexie Bay When the demon of Sloth sets his sights on the angel Industria, apathy becomes dangerously alluring. The Sweetest Revenge by Lucy Felthouse Abigail's crush on Mackenzie has made her do something stupid. Will Pride come before a fall or cause them to fall in love? Something Else by Sarah Masters A man's Wrath at the loss of his lover sets him on a vengeful path that leads him through a seedy and sexually charged underworld.
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Computer games: strategy guidesAugust 2012Nintendo Wii & DS
by The CheatMistress
The Cheat Mistress is your guide to all that best in Computer and Electronic games , she will help you in any place that you may be stuck or need help or simply a sexy guide through your latest game.
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FictionThe Shortcut
by Miquel Martín
Published by Edicions del Periscopi (Catalan) English sample available La drecera (The Shortcut), by Miquel Martín, has been the big surprise of the summer season. Published at the end of June it has been selling more and more since then and now it’s been in Catalan Bestsellers lists for weeks. This is a short novel about the passage from childhood to youth of the son of the housekeepers of a rich family that owns a large summer house in the region of Empordà (which might ring a bell because it is also the setting of Milena Busquets’s successful novel This Too Shall Pass). In The Shortcut we see the evolution of this boy of 10, who still does not know anything about social boundaries and the scars that life leaves on adults, and who finishes the novel, at 13 or 14, having discovered some of the secrets, joys, wonders and resignations of the adult world.
