Mucky Book Club

One thing I learned from Suzanne Portnoy’s memoir, The Butcher The Baker The Candlestick Maker: it’s surprisingly hard to find good sex out there. Even if you’re attractive, solvent and extremely accommodating. Embarking on a sexual odyssey after a long, sexless marriage, Suzanne’s initial encounters are full of lost erections, premature ejaculations and odd personal [...]

We have now got very much above our station here at the Mucky Book Club. We’re STARS, do you hear us: STARS! Well, kind of, anyway. ITV’s Lorraine show was kind enough to feature us today, as part of the launch of their Racy Reads competition. In the unlikely event that you missed us (ahem), [...]

Not a “mucky” book in the strict sense of the word, but one which touches on some of the subjects Nikki Gemmell explores in her novels The Bride Stripped Bare and With My Body: secret women’s business, affairs of the heart, saucy underwear, Brazilian waxes, improving our sex lives, what men want, pornography, motherhood, loss [...]

It’s that time of year again: the Literary Review has released its Bad Sex in Fiction Awards shortlist. And, my, there are some howlers on there. Follow @Lit_Review on Twitter for a daily dose of erotic cringing. Here are just a few examples from last year: “Her weasel-like loins clutching and unclutching his lovely, long, [...]

Star in your own romantic story courtesy of Ustar Novels, which offers books “that are fully personalised to include up to 30 of your personal details making you and your partner the stars of your very own novel”. Select from a range of saucy tales, fill in a short questionnaire, and within a few days, [...]

Synopsis: Two women in 16th Century India: one a queen, one a courtesan. Guess what *their* favourite mucky book is? Phwoargh Factor: Woah there pickle: this is not the muckfest you are looking for. You can’t call a movie Kama Sutra and not have some shagging in it, however it’s surprisingly low-key and not (to [...]

Based on the eponymous novella by Leo Tolstoy (published in 1889) inspired by Beethoven’s furious and passionate ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata for piano and violin Opus 47, Tolstoy’s tale of lust and jealousy is transposed to contemporary Los Angeles in a sexy and adult film by Bernard Rose. Edgar Hudson (superbly played by Danny Huston) is a [...]

Eagle-eyed readers will know that our first Mucky Book Club – LIVE will take place on 15th November, accompanied by a Kinky Disco from DJ Moogaloo. He’s been kind enough to offer us a sneak preview of his set, and we can’t wait to hear more of it next week. Happy listening!   Mucky Groovers by [...]

A guest post by Elizabeth Cage Back in the 1980s, when a film called Nine and a Half Weeks was released, I was studying for a degree at Sussex University and writing my thesis on the issues the film raised and the ethics of censorship. Based on an autobiographical book, the story charted the intense relationship between a [...]

How does it feel to bare all in print? How do you find the words to describe the most intimate of acts? How do your loved ones react? The first Mucky Book Club LIVE will take place on 15th November, and we’ll be tackling the subject of confessions. Betty Herbert and Monique Roffey will be [...]