Product Description

In Bed With...is a unique, sometimes humorous, often wicked and totally sizzling collection of unashamedly sexy bedtime stories by bestselling, award-winning and well-known novelists - writing under their x-rated pseudonyms (a combination of the name of their first pet and their street). So who are Pom Pom Paradise and Minxy Malone? Tutty Monmouth or Sunset Proudfoot? Can you work out who is who? Who wrote what? Entertaining and erotic, In Bed With is a delicious collection of fiction provocateur. What are you waiting for? Slip under the covers with a good book. Satisfaction guaranteed. Featuring Chris Manby, Stella Duffy, Adele Parks, Fay Weldon, Ali Smith, Daisy Waugh, Rachel Johnson, Jessica Adams, Emma Darwin, Jane Moore, Joanne Harris, Bella Pollen, Justine Picardie, Esther Freud, Louise Doughty, Joan Smith and Santa Sebag-Montefiore.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8624 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 342 pages

Review
'A book that has the literary world abuzz with excitement, causing a frisson of electricity to pass through the corridors of the country's publishing houses.' --The Daily Telegraph

Review
'Your favourite female authors...as you've never read them before...the literary world is in for a shock'

Review
'How a group of Britain's female writers are making erotic fiction cool...a steamy new short-story collection'

Customer Reviews

Excellent erotic reading.
This is an anthology of "bedtime" stories written by some of the best writers of this genre, erotica. The stories are quick and to the point and very, very good. I liked that it was an easy read but very sexy and well done at the same time. I would defintely suggest picking this one up, if you like this sort of thing, along with another: Sex Scenes: Erotica Excerpts from the Novels of Kim Corum.

Not quite up to the hype!
In Bed With is an anthology of erotic stories, written by established writers of other genres. And when I say established, I'm talking household names like Adele Parks, Ali Smith, Chris Manby, Daisy Waugh, Kathy Lette and Maggie Alderson. You may not have read them, it depends what you're into, but if you're a reader then you've heard of them. The twist is that the stories are written anonymously. So, we know the names of all of the authors, and that they've contributed a smutty story to this book, but you don't know which one it is. If you know the authors' writing well, there's a chance you'll be able to work a couple out from their writing style, and also the fact that their pseudonym is a combination of the name of their first pet, and the first street they lived on. So stalkers and the like may be able to find this information out and solve the who's who.

As a PR/Marketing person myself, I think this is a fabulous publicity stunt. This book will sell purely because of the names on the cover. I don't think many people will be put off by the content, because it doesn't scream 'erotic'. The cover says they are 'unashamedly sexy stories'. And to me, although it is just a matter of opinion, sexy is acceptable to most people. Sexy is just a little risque - maybe a bit of snogging and the finer details are skirted over. You get that in your average chick-lit novel, and nobody bats an eyelid. So many will pick up the book in a shop and buy it because they like one or two of the authors. Which is great. If they get it home and realise it's more naughty than they realised, they can either fling the book away from them in disgust, or keep reading. And if they're converted to erotica - then woohoo!

I'm sold on the concept of this book, I think it's genius. But the content is variable. I don't think it was as good an erotic anthology as your more traditional Black Lace or Xcite ones. But I do have a theory. I think perhaps that although the writers have used pen names so nobody knows which stories they have written, they also know there's a chance they will be found out. So they've scaled back on the smut. Don't get me wrong, not all of the writers have, some of the stories are full-on, damn HOT, erotica. They use naughty words and everything. But others are little more than contemporary fiction (there's nothing wrong with contemporary fiction, of course, it's just not what this book is about!) and don't really belong in an erotic anthology.

So, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with any of the stories, they're all fantastic in their own way. It's just that some of them aren't, well, erotic. The ones that are though - wow! The two that really stood out for me were The Convenient Gardener by "Storm Henley" and After the Funeral by "Bunty B Road". I'd still say get yourself a copy of this book, even if it's just for the pure enjoyment of reading, regardless of the genre!

Indulge with this fun, erotic collection
I found IN BED WITH a delicious book of short stories which are a tiny bit naughty and very very nice! Whilst reading it I felt as if it was my guilty secret.
Perfect to run a hot, bubble filled bath, light a scented candle, pour a generous glass of wine and read, read, read. Some stories worked better than others but they were all well-written, cleverly thought out and hugely enjoyable. Saucy, sassy and intelligently raunchy, I would recommend this book to all my girlfriends.