Love on the Thames Broken hearted Nicole Thomas would much rather be working than dating! Her only distraction is the man she's been chatting to online.... When business rival Gabriel meets Nicole, he's taken aback by the strength of their chemistry...it doesn't take him long to realise they've met before - online! * Lia Fairbanks holds Gregorio de la Cruz responsible for ruining her life. But he can't get the fiery red-head out of his mind. He won't rest until he has Lia just where he wants her -in his bed! Can Lia resist this billionaire's seduction! * Jenna's spent her life being overlooked, so when she arrives home to find a gorgeous man on her doorstep, she assumes he's looking for someone else. But Dr Adam Sinclair is here for her - this delectable stranger is her new lodger! Living in close quarters anything can happen...

Fairy Tales Can Come True His L.A. Cinderella Cassidy Malone is, in her mind, totally unsuitable for Hollywood life and top movie mogul, and old flame, Will Ryan. Bound by a contract she must help him write the script they never finished. But did the flame of passion really burn out years ago...? His Shy Cinderella Racing driver Brandon Stone is intent on acquiring rival race car designers the McKenzies. Except shy Angel McKenzie has no intention of selling up! But working closely with Brandon ignites feelings she never knew existed. She won't surrender her company but might she surrender her heart... A Millionaire for Cinderella Patience Rush is perfectly happy caring for her elderly charge. Until rich and incredibly gorgeous Stuart Duchenko arrives, determined to find out the truth behind his great-aunt's unlikely housekeeper! With simmering attraction between them can Patience keep her secrets...

Sex work studies have seen an expansion in publications over the past decade, drawing together disciplines from across the social sciences, namely sociology, criminology and social policy. There has, however, been a tendency for research and writing to focus on the more obvious aspect of the sex industry - the visible elements of female street prostitution and those features which attract media attention such as the criminalised aspects of the sex trade. The sex industry is diverse in terms of its organisation, presentation, participants and how it is located in the broader context of globalisation and regulation; there is a need for publications which demonstrate this breadth. This book makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of sex work through advancing theoretical, policy, methodological and empirical ideas as each chapter pushes the boundaries of a specific area by offering new and critical research as well as commentary.

Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and 'lap dancing' has become the focus of many important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality. This new book from Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy moves away from the more traditional focus on the relations between dancers and customers, to a focus on regulation and the working conditions experienced by those working in stripping work. Drawing on interviews, survey data and participant observation with dancers, managers, regulators and other staff, Sanders and Hardy present the first ever nationwide study of the stripping industry and the working lives of those within it. The book explores the reasons for the expansion of the industry in the United Kingdom and the experiences, opinions and perspectives of those that produce and shape it. Placing dancers' voices centre stage, it examines the wider political economy which shapes dancers' engagement in employment in the stripping industry, pointing towards the wider conditions of the labour market and growing privatisation of Higher Education as explanatory factors for its labour supply. In suggesting a new feminist politics of stripping, dancers voice their own political awareness of erotic dance and an intersectional analysis of solidarity with workers in the stripping industry is foregrounded. Presenting a 360 degree view of the industry, this ground-breaking study presents systematic evidence for the first time on this area of social life which has become central as a strategy of survival, class mobility and urban accumulation. It will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students across the fields of criminology, sociology, geography, labour studies and gender studies, as well as regulators, activists and even dancers themselves.

Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and 'lap dancing' has become the focus of many important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality. This new book from Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy moves away from the more traditional focus on the relations between dancers and customers, to a focus on regulation and the working conditions experienced by those working in stripping work. Drawing on interviews, survey data and participant observation with dancers, managers, regulators and other staff, Sanders and Hardy present the first ever nationwide study of the stripping industry and the working lives of those within it.

The book explores the reasons for the expansion of the industry in the United Kingdom and the experiences, opinions and perspectives of those that produce and shape it. Placing dancers' voices centre stage, it examines the wider political economy which shapes dancers' engagement in employment in the stripping industry, pointing towards the wider conditions of the labour market and growing privatisation of Higher Education as explanatory factors for its labour supply. In suggesting a new feminist politics of stripping, dancers voice their own political awareness of erotic dance and an intersectional analysis of solidarity with workers in the stripping industry is foregrounded.

Presenting a 360 degree view of the industry, this ground-breaking study presents systematic evidence for the first time on this area of social life which has become central as a strategy of survival, class mobility and urban accumulation. It will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students across the fields of criminology, sociology, geography, labour studies and gender studies, as well as regulators, activists and even dancers themselves.

Sex work studies have seen an expansion in publications over the past decade, drawing together disciplines from across the social sciences, namely sociology, criminology and social policy. There has, however, been a tendency for research and writing to focus on the more obvious aspect of the sex industry - the visible elements of female street prostitution and those features which attract media attention such as the criminalised aspects of the sex trade. The sex industry is diverse in terms of its organisation, presentation, participants and how it is located in the broader context of globalisation and regulation; there is a need for publications which demonstrate this breadth. This book makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of sex work through advancing theoretical, policy, methodological and empirical ideas as each chapter pushes the boundaries of a specific area by offering new and critical research as well as commentary.

Classic downbeat British crime thriller, directed by Neil Jordan.

George (Bob Hoskins) is a low-grade mob enforcer, recently released from prison after a stretch covering up for his boss, Mortwell (Michael Caine). Taking on a job as chauffeur to prickly call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson), George gradually begins to fall in love with her as he helps her look for her best friend Cathy (Kate Hardie).

But when he eventually finds her, the naive George is dismayed to find that Cathy and Simone are lovers. Even worse, George has unwittingly become involved in a dangerous game that Simone and Cathy are playing against his old underworld boss, Mortwell.

A thrilling debut novel about motherhood, monsters and madness, for readers of Daisy Johnson and Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch Inside a house live a mother and a child. There are normal things: walks to school, the park, pasta for tea. But there are other things, too: a severed toe on the doorstep; strange mouthfuls of flesh; wolfish snarls and sheep torn limb from limb. It is a house in which doors get chewed and nails scrape along walls. There is a monster in the house, and it is tearing it apart at the seams. But is there also a love so fierce that it cannot be broken?

The Nurse's Christmas Giftby Tina BeckettPaediatric surgeon Max Ainsley arrives at Teddy's hospital for a fresh start, only to find himself working with the woman he lost years before-his estranged wife!Annabelle once hoped to give Max the perfect family he never had, but when that dream was broken, so was her heart-and she pushed him away. She never imagined loving again, but now working on a tiny patient with Max stirs buried feelings... Could a miracle in maternity reunite them in time for Christmas?The Midwife's Pregnancy Miracleby Kate HardyMidwife Ella O'Brien loves babies, but she believes she can't have her own. Until at a charity ball the chemistry between her and dashing obstetrician Oliver Darrington explodes into a night of passion that proves her wrong!Aristocratic Oliver has been here before, but the baby wasn't his! Now he's guarding his emotions, even from lovely, innocent Ella. Can the baby they both want so much help them trust in their love this Christmas...and become the family they really long for?Christmas Miracles in MaternityHope, magic and precious new beginnings at Teddy's!

Four Londoners, whose lives are already entwined, wittingly and otherwise, are about to meet again in an obscure seaside town in southern France ...Set in France, London and Las Vegas, Staying out of the midday sun, is the second part of a trilogy spanning twenty years, in which the heroes are challenged with the everyday: love, babies, gite cleaning, a new language, aging parents - as well as shoot-outs, Las Vegas weddings, bureaucracy, duck gizzard salad, and possibly the end of the world.

The story of the infamous Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie (Gary and Martin Kemp), notorious in Britain for their crimes as controlling gangsters of London's East End in the 1960s. The film begins with their childhood, charting their rise to power through the 1950s, and watching as their unnaturally close relationship crumbles alongside their criminal empire.