John Preston

The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, and others
• Narrated By Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.

The Dig

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 49 mins)
• By John Preston
• Narrated By Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Fiona Hardingham, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, a widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As an archaeological dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find, and the discovery leads to a host of jealousies and tensions.

My Favorite Gay Men's Stories from Best American Erotica

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Susie Bright (editor), John Preston, Samuel Delaney, and others
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Mirron Willis, Christian Noble, and others

Susie Bright, founder of Best American Erotica, presents a classic, taboo-breaking collection of men’s erotic fiction - featuring the most unrepentant gay literary heroes of our generation. Legendary writers like John Preston, Samuel Delany, Steven Saylor/Aaron Travis, Lars Eighner, Dennis Cooper - who can imagine men’s intimate and transgressive lives without them?

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 29 mins)
• By John Preston
• Narrated By Matthew Brenher
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

As a member of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad behavior went under the radar for years. Police and politicians alike colluded to protect one of their own. In 1970, Thorpe was the most popular and charismatic politician in the country, poised to hold the balance of power in a coalition government. But Jeremy Thorpe was a man with a secret.

Mr. Benson: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 53 mins)
• By John Preston
• Narrated By Darren Douglas

A classic of modern gay S/M fiction, Mr. Benson is the compelling story of a young man's quest for the perfect master. In a West Village leather bar, he finds wealthy, sophisticated, exacting Aristotle Benson, who leads him down the path of erotic enlightenment, teaching him to accept cruelty as love, anguish as affection, and ultimately, Mr. Benson as his master. If John Preston, the masterly, handsome author of more than 30 books, was himself a gay icon, his character Mr. Benson defined the culture of gay sex for an entire generation.

I Once Had a Master

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 57 mins)
• By John Preston
• Narrated By Darren Douglas

John Preston brings it back to the basics: a hand on a neck, a boot that needs a spit shine, a trick who leaves with bruises and sweet memories. In books such as the S/M classic Mr. Benson, Preston explored power exchange in all its battered beauty. The sex stories in I Once Had a Master combine a hardcore sensibility with rare psychological insight.

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 14 mins)
• By John Preston
• Narrated By Daniel Weyman

It's the late 1960s, and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his beautiful, unstable lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk. With the help of his fellow politicians, Thorpe schemes, deceives and embezzles - until he can see only one way to silence Scott for good. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed our society forever: it was the moment the British public discovered the truth about its political class.

The Love of a Master: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 42 mins)
• By John Preston
• Narrated By Darren Douglas

There are good-looking, willing young men in every hidden corner of America - men like Tim and Marc who know a worthy top when they see him. John Preston's powerful and darkly insightful classic The Love of a Master follows the Master's patient, deliberate, and wickedly inventive training of his two boyish but determined devotees as they release themselves to their submissive natures, to the "fear and anticipation" that comes with true service.

Entertainment for a Master: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 6 mins)
• By John Preston
• Narrated By Mirron Willis

"Volunteers needed for a very private, very elegant S/M party for a discreet group of ladies and gentlemen to be held in San Francisco. Only the very willing and the experienced need apply…" And only a virtuoso of erotic fiction could build a spellbinding novel from the planning and preparation for an S/M party.

In Entertainment for a Master, acclaimed author John Preston follows a skilled and respected dom as he interviews and personally inspects the men who respond to his unusual ad. Carl, a former Marine, will drop and give his master fifty, kissing his boots at each dip to the floor.