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OhMargaret · 2024-03-04T20:43:31+00:00

Does anyone write books like this anymore? I want to read something equally filthy and intelligent - help me out

Riverlee · 13/03/2024 22:10

Jilly Cooper
Jackie Collins

these two authors jumped to mind.

Lace - Shirley Conran - long time since I’ve read it but your post rem8bded me of it.

marchionessbegan · 10/03/2024 07:12

Alan Hollinghurst, if you don't mind M/M.

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OhMargaret · 07/03/2024 14:01

Hartley99 · 06/03/2024 22:21

How about D. H. Lawrence? Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women in Love are worth reading. In fact, many think Women in Love is one of the greatest novels of the 20th-century. Both full of sex as well😁.

This is sort of thing I'm talking about. I've read both but would love to find something in this vein from our own time. Ie. These books are erotic but they're also 'about' sex rather than just pornographic for its own sake

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Hartley99 · 06/03/2024 22:21

How about D. H. Lawrence? Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women in Love are worth reading. In fact, many think Women in Love is one of the greatest novels of the 20th-century. Both full of sex as well😁.

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OhMargaret · 06/03/2024 22:18

Gowlbag · 06/03/2024 21:40

Fanny by Erica Jong, the sexiest book I have ever read and also wonderfully well written. It’s an 18th century romp written by a feminist icon.

Come to think of it I must be due a re-read.

Erica Jong! My mum had a copy of Fear of Flying that I used to sneak into my room as a kid. I'll check this out, thank you.

(Is anyone still writing books like this? They seem to have died out some time in the last century)

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OhMargaret · 06/03/2024 22:15

Sadik · 06/03/2024 22:09

Anything by KJ Charles - filthy but also very well written. If you're happy with m/m then A Seditious Affair is set in the 18th C & combines a plot featuring radical politics & the Cato Street conspiracy with a LOT of sex.

This is more like it

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Newgirls · 06/03/2024 22:12

Damage? Tho there is an age gap.

Someone like you? About actors

maestra? About a dominatrix killer?!

Sadik · 06/03/2024 22:09

Anything by KJ Charles - filthy but also very well written. If you're happy with m/m then A Seditious Affair is set in the 18th C & combines a plot featuring radical politics & the Cato Street conspiracy with a LOT of sex.

Gowlbag · 06/03/2024 21:40

Fanny by Erica Jong, the sexiest book I have ever read and also wonderfully well written. It’s an 18th century romp written by a feminist icon.

Come to think of it I must be due a re-read.

TheSandHurtsMyFeelings · 06/03/2024 18:37

Another vote for The Idea Of You.

marchionessbegan · 06/03/2024 18:34

"The Butcher" by Alina Reyes, although it's a very short novel. It's in an omnibus with a couple of her other books, but I'm afraid I didn't like them so much.

There's a film of "The Idea of You" out around now, btw.

BeforetheFlood · 04/03/2024 20:55

I'm going with The Idea of You by Robinne Lee. Lots of hot sex but within the context of a well written story.

ArcticBells · 04/03/2024 20:45

Oh yes please