Austin: 1740 books

This early work by Richard Austin Freeman was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes' is one of Freeman's novels of crime and mystery. The first story featuring his well-known protagonist Dr. Thorndyke - a medico-legal forensic...

Dr. John Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical jurispractitioner - originally a medical doctor, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern parlance, forensic scientists. His solutions were based on his method of collecting all possible data (including...

Fed up with his wife and her willingness to drink herself to her grave after the death of their infant son, he reaches out to his mother-in-law in the hopes that she can reason with his wife before their marriage is ruined.

With the big four-oh looming, Larissa Cross is more than ready to shed the roles that have defined her and make drastic changes. Gone are the widowed Army wife, soccer mom and empty nester. She’s even setting aside the school teacher until fall. A naughty challenge has come at the perfect...

Claire Hanson is a submissive in need of a Dom. Finding one in rural Illinois in 1981 is no easy feat but her requirements are simple. Forget complicated limit lists, take charge and give her lots of hot, sweaty sex.On edge, body humming with arousal, Claire aches to have her desires sated. And...

Anita Bennett’s fight to solve the mystery of eight lost days leads to a hunt for the jaguar-man who haunts her fractured memories. Her plan is simple—find and seduce him. What she didn’t anticipate is his resistance.*This title, previously published as Rakahnja’s Haven, has been revised and re-edited.*

Once a woman’s deepest, darkest desires have been exposed—whetting her appetite for taboo pleasures of the flesh—her unquenchable hungers will not be denied.Floggers and whipsChains and leather restraintsErotic rewards and punishments…oh my!Seduced by stories and the forbidden lure of Dominance...

CINDERELLA SCANDAL It was a onetime indulgence—a random encounter between strangers. A good girl’s dirty little secret with the bad boy. Anything else is forbidden. Or is it? DIRTY PRINCESS I’m sure there’s a rule in the friend code that makes lusting after your bestie forbidden. But...

Two terrific Angela Kay Austin Short Stories For those who serve, and the ones who love them.   Scarlet’s Tears – She’d lost so very much… including her sense of self, how could she go on?   Derailed – From homeless to hopeful, this young veteran builds a life she’d thought impossible.

Mujeres que reclaman su derecho a trabajar en un mundo de hombres, valientes guerreras indias, forajidas del Oeste americano, inmigrantes sin pelos en la lengua, heroínas atrapadas en tenebrosos bosques… Estas son algunas de las protagonistas de La nueva mujer: relatos de escritoras estadounidenses...

From Austin Clarke, the critically acclaimed author of The Polished Hoe—winner of the Giller Prize—comes More, a powerful new novel of survival in a cold and alienating world. Certain to become a classic in contemporary  world literature, More carries readers into the  lonely life of an immigrant...

Heaven’s Orphans. There are millions of children who never make it to this earth, millions of children unable to communicate or share their fate. Heaven’s Orphans is a short story that provides a glimpse into their existence, into the souls of the children orphaned before birth.Heaven’s...

Anthony “Tony” Gibson and Ekaterina “Kat” Randall have a long and rocky history. They were high school sweethearts who have already started over once before. Now, both were in the same city for the first time in years and constantly having to deal with each other at family gatherings. Attempting...

When two well-born women run away from their homes in Kilkenny to live together, the genteel world of 18th century Ireland is scandalised. Not daunted, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby pursue their desire, and make a life together that is as happy and fulfilling as it is eccentric. Lovers of...