Chasing Fire

Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His acclaimed first novel, Lanark (1981), written over almost 30 years, was described by The Guardian as “one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction.”[1] Poor Things (1992) won him a Whitbread Novel Award[2] and Guardian Fiction Prize.[3] He calls himself a civic nationalist[4] […]

Maîtresse Françoise (pen name Annick Foucault) is a publicly known dominatrix in Paris, France. Her autobiography was published in France by publisher Éditions Gallimard. Annick Foucault was born in the South of France.[1][2] Her childhood was marred by the loss of her father.[1][2] After having been the victim of an accident, she consecutively had no […]

Alessandra Torre is an American novelist best known for contemporary romance.[1][2][3] Torre is a New York Times, USA Today,[4] Wall Street Journal[5] and Amazon International bestselling novelist.[6] Alessandra is the Bedroom Blogger for Cosmopolitan.[7] She has been a guest columnist for the Huffington Post, RT Book Reviews, and was featured in Elle Magazine.[1] In 2017, […]

Shosha Pearl is the pseudonym of an anonymous Orthodox Jewish writer, known for her erotic fiction that is set in the Orthodox community and adheres to Orthodox halacha. She has self-published two books, the anthology I Will Watch You (2015) and a novella entitled Her Neighbor’s Pleasure (2016), in addition to several short stories. Little […]

Achilles Tatius (Greek: Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος) of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek writer of the 2nd century whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the ancient Greek novel or romance The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon. Eustathius of Thessalonica (in his commentary on Homer’s Odyssey 14.350), the Suda, Photius, in his Bibliotheca (cod. […]