Bookish readers will know that last month, Arundhati Roy (author of The God of Small Things) published her first memoir, and the paperback of Nigel Slater’s A Thousand Feasts was released. Slater’s book celebrates the “little joys illuminating an increasingly darkening world” – moments which can “feed the soul”. In the spirit of small things,…
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Books With Great Sex Writing
You might think writing a sex scene is easy, but try it and you’ll find it isn’t. Whose arm goes where? Can he really get his dick in from that position? Whoops, she now has three legs. Read a poorly-written sex scene and you’ll know you’re reading a poorly-written sex scene. Read a great sex…
Is Feeld’s “A Fucking Magazine” Worth It?
Our favourite online dating app has switched things up again. However, instead of launching a new feature or adjusting its premise (hello, Bumble), the creators of Feeld have published a print magazine. The chances are, you’ve heard of Feeld, but for the uninitiated: Feeld used to be a niche dating app for the queer, kinky…
What Do Women Want in Bed?
What do women fantasise about? Gillian Anderson’s hotly anticipated new book “Want” is a collection of 174 sexual fantasies of women from around the world. Published in September 2024, the book began as the project “Dear Gillian” which received over 1,800 anonymous submissions from women about their deepest fantasies. In her introduction, Anderson says she…
Top 10 Books About Sex – 2024
Online and in bookstores, there’s no shortage of books about sex. We’re fascinated by it and we all know it sells – and if Fifty Shades of Grey taught us anything it’s that sex doesn’t need to be written well to fly off the shelves. The problem is, though, that good books about sex are…
Intimacy During Covid
Sometimes a blog post comes easily. Other times, it’s a slog. And then there are the rare posts that sit in your drafts folder for years and slowly but surely, you add to the narrative and hope it turns out better than if you had just written the damn thing in one go. Here is…
Books Every Single Girl Should Read
What better way to deal with feeling fed-up, lonely and pissed off than getting lost in a book?! 1) For when you’re feeling lost: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho This beautiful short book is a perfect read for when you feel you’ve lost your way. The narrative follows a shepherd through the desert as he…
When The Guilty Feminist Came to Brighton
As some regular readers might know by now, I love Deborah Frances-White and her podcast, “The Guilty Feminist”. Well, now she’s written a book of the same name and her book tour ended in Brighton. You can buy Deborah’s fantastic book from Waterstones here. A friend joined me for an evening of giggles, roaring laughter…
Still Searching for Prince Charming 