Lolita meets Story of O, another memorable tale of love, sex and feelings from 'the King of the erotic thriller' When Ekaterina meets Alexander a shockingly sexy but tender romance develops. She is a young Italian trainee journalist, who dreams of wild sexual adventures. He is the older Englishman who she believes can fulfill her fantasies. When Ekaterina is sent to interview the ageing writer Alexander in London, she is blinded by his charm and experience. Their relationship explodes in a sensual orgy, which defies society's acceptance. When a mysterious angel of death who calls herself Emma enters their lives, Ekaterina and Alexander know their days together are numbered. A shocking climax set in Venice in winter brings the three protagonists together. A tale of sex and tenderness that ranks alongside Jakubowski classic The State of Montana.

Six uncollected short stories by Maxim Jakubowski, one of the controversial stars of the world of erotic writing and a further demonstration of his ability to break boundaries and imbue the most diverse of tales with the exhilaration of sex, be it ancient India at the time of the Kama Sutra, Times Square in New York in the sordid 1950s or Venice at Carnival Time. Every story is pretext for a celebration of the body and the senses and reaches parts few other writers even approach.

THE MUSIC OF BODIES

Can a blind man also be a voyeur? In the realm of memories and the imagination he can, drawing exquisite images of skin, bodies and forbidden parts with an anatomical but tender precision. But is the experience as good as reality or maybe even better?

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BURLESQUE EMPIRE

An involuntary time-traveller lands in Time Square in New York in the 1950s and comes across a seductive young woman in a burlesque show only to lose her. He returns at several years' interval as the Manhattan vice landscape turns even more sordid. Is his love affair doomed to repeat itself and fail again?

THE TALE OF THE DROWNING MAN

In ancient India a young man falls head over heels in love with an unattainable young woman and spies her bathing nude in the river from far away. How one of the legendary sexual positions in the famed Kama Sutra was involuntarily created!

G IS FOR GYPSY

From one side of the partition, a man in a hotel room listens to a couple in the next room noisily make love. The memories this evokes are most troubling and the temptations of sex take him onto the Internet as he arranges a dangerous encounter of his own as a form of penance.

TAKE ME TO CARNEVALE

A couple's relationship is slowly disintegrating and they journey to Venice in an attempt to save it. When they meet a mysterious older man who invites them to an unusual party at Carnival time, their whole world is turned upside down and they find themselves involved in a world of sex they had not previously even imagined.

THAT TIME WITH SARAH JANE

Sarah Jane is submissive in her relationships with men. She is seeking a Master and will do anything to achieve her purposes. As the sexual encounters she finds herself drawn towards become ever more extreme and painful, she reaches a point where a fatal decision must be taken. Will she emerge on the other side of sanity and happiness?

Once again, Maxim Jakubowski demonstrates with quiet elegance how varied erotic writing can be at its best, with six outstanding tales about men and women and the ties that bind their bodies in minds in ever so subtle ways, between the sheets, behind the words.

Once described as 'the King of the Erotic Thriller', Maxim Jakubowski is also known as one the erotica genre's darkest exponent, with both extreme situations and a poignancy that is truer to real life than the majority of his writing counterparts. This collection brings together six of his more recent stories which run the gamut from dark to even darker, from ink shades to the blackest galaxy of sex.

WE MATE IN THE DARK

Abandoned by his girlfriend in a Spanish seaside resort, a desperate man takes drastic action and then embarks on a terrible odyssey of sexual pain and retribution which culminates in one of modern erotica's most horrific encounters on an abandoned beach as dawn breaks.

BY THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

A spy travelling on a train towards the Mongolian border evokes the bittersweet and sexy memories of the woman, another secret agent, towards whom he is journeying, in readiness for an exchange where she will be freed and he will take her place as a prisoner.

A PRICE TO PAY

A disillusioned Private Eye journeys to Dublin in search of a missing young woman and his investigation takes him through the city's fleshpots and drinking havens, where he encounters drop-outs, bad men and the terrible Morrigan sisters from Celtic legend. It can't end well, can it?

HER EYES SAID YES

He meets Eddie in an airport and they make love. It's the beginning of an extreme relationship that, he knows, leads nowhere. With every new sexual encounter the stakes keep on getting higher and higher until the fatal day arrives where they both cross the threshold.

THE COMMUNION OF BLOOD AND SEMEN

She looks beautiful and vulnerable and he falls in love with her with all his heart and body. There is only one problem: she happens to be a vampire and there is only one way he can hold on to her. He travels to Venice where the communion that will change his life forever will take place under cover of darkness.

L'AMERICAINE

A beautiful American hit woman travels to Paris with instructions to kill a particularly nasty villain. She tracks him down to a notorious swingers club where he has taken his latest conquest, a young, innocent Italian woman. Where do you conceal a gun when everyone is naked? Can she afford to have a witness to the killing?

Intense love stories, espionage tales, horror narratives and thrillers in all shades of black, but all dominated by striking sex and sensuality: Jakubowski at his dangerous best.

Maxim Jakubowski takes the reader through an intoxicating journey through four of the world's most exciting cities: New York, Dublin, Paris and London.

Known for his daring and sexy tales of men and women in love and lust and once described by both The Times and Time Out as 'the King of the Erotic Thriller', Jakubowski here examines Sex in the City through a daring new angle which will leave you breathless.

A WASHINGTON SQUARE ROMANCE

In a Manhattan hotel, an older man mourns and recalls his past affair with a younger woman as he crisscrosses New York's Greenwich Village and further afield in search of the ghost of her body and her love. Where geography meets flaming erotica!

MOLLY, YOU HAVE 4391 WORDS, START NOW...

A young American woman visiting Dublin parallels Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Joyce's Ulysses as she undergoes a harrowing sexual ordeal that takes her past many of the Irish capital's best known spots. The reader will never think of Dublin in the same way again...

AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO PARIS HOTEL ROOMS

A man explores sex in a variety of Paris hotels. Each room features further variations on the games of the flesh and the mind, as he comes to grip with the palette of women he has made love to in the past in this city of love and how they fit in to the puzzle of his sexuality.

WOKE UP WITH THAT HAMPSTEAD BLUES AGAIN

Abandoned by his lover in North London, a man embarks on a mini odyssey of sexual discovery through the distinctive map of north London, with passionate and disturbing encounters with a Spanish woman, a beautiful submissive and a club of doms who organise anonymous gangbangs.

Challenging, sexy to the extreme, these stories unfold with elegant and literary style and introduce a new vision of erotica as a battleground for not just sex, but also strong emotions and raw feelings.

These stories have also been published in

Sex In The City - London 9781907016226 / 97819077263392

Sex In The City - New York 9781907016240 / 9781907726385

Sex In The City - Paris 9781907016257 / 9781907726361

Sex In The City - Dublin 9781907016233 / 9781907761232

From one of the greatest and most popular literary erotica writers of today, highlighted by TIME OUT LONDON amongst the top 20 in the genre. comes a major collection of short stories gathering some of his best and sexiest stories.

Moving between London, New York, Paris, New Orleans and tropical beaches these are dangerous tales of sexuality and emotions unbound, combining sex and mystery, despair and tenderness and guaranteed to shock and delight the reader's senses in the most extreme way.

Jakubowski's unique brand of erotica - call it 'erotica noir' - offers a edge-of-your-seat stories that are sure to arouse and alarm.

From Maxim Jakubowski, one of the great authors writing in erotica today, comes an updated STORY OF O for the electronic age.

In his gripping, heartbreaking tale -one with the modern zest of Bunuel's BELLE DE JOUR- a Montreal housewife seeks to fill her emptiness through anonymous encounters in Internet chat rooms, airport hotel bars... and bedrooms. Her adventures ultimately lead her to a terrifying sexual saga in a New York brownstone.

Previously a major success in the UK, the USA, France and Italy and optioned on several occasions by the movies, this provocative novel stands amongst Jakubowski's best.