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NONFICTION
Released: July 5, 2005
Kirkus Star THE DANCING GIRLS OF LAHORE: SELLING LOVE AND SAVING DREAMS IN PAKISTAN’S ANCIENT PLEASURE DISTRICT
by Louise Brown
"Riveting and important. Even readers who don't think they're interested in Pakistani prostitution will find themselves engrossed."
British sociologist Brown documents the sex-trade in Lahore. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2004
THE NATASHAS: INSIDE THE NEW GLOBAL SEX TRADE
by Victor Malarek
"A scathing indictment."
Canadian broadcast journalist Malarek exposes the international traffic in sex slavery. Read full book review >
Cover art for CALLGIRL
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2004
CALLGIRL
by Jeannette Angell
"While this reads like a memoir, a faint suspicion lingers that it could be fiction, like the author's previous work (The Illusionist, 2000, etc.). Either way, it provides a revelatory view of a life few women know much about."
Engrossing, no-holds-barred story of a college lecturer by day and a callgirl by night. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE FLOATING BROTHEL
NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2002
THE FLOATING BROTHEL: THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SHIP AND ITS CARGO OF FEMALE CONVICTS
by Sian Rees
"Historical writing of the first rank, graphic and of real presence. "
Rees debuts with a cracking tale drawn from an unedifying episode in her native England's history: the "Transportation to Parts Beyond the Seas" of hundreds of British women, shipped on the Lady Julian in 1789 to penal life in Australia. Read full book review >