Kirjahaku

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT112924An enlarged translation of Lib.I of Cornelius van Bynkershoek's 'Quaestiones Juris Publici'.London: printed for W. Sandby, 1759. viii,264p.; 8

The papers collected in this volume present important information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. The volume focuses on two themes: first, on the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organise their social and economic lives; and second, on their fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy. The contributors maintain that gatherer-hunters are not examples of a disappearing way of life, but peoples who have maintained their social and economic practices through long periods of contact with stratified societies. The aim of this volume it to make known to as wide an audience as possible the daily lives, the patterns of relations between the sexes and the political orientations of the world's contemporary foragers.

Imagine a retired writer drawing on memories of his life in the countryside, beside the sea and sometimes in the city, who writes stories in preparation for a time when he might forget. AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORIES contains a variety of stories: pastoral, political, humorous, violent, and even sexually explicit.

THE FIFI CODE is a novel about love. It provides a window on women loving women both within and outside of an existing heterosexual relationship and when a man's love might just not be enough.Meet the residents of Eros Crescent and in particular, the delightful Rosa Bennett and her network of women friends and lovers, young and old, all of whom she is happy to share, both with her husband, and with her other lovers. Discover too, the secrets of the special trigger word Fifi and the erotic instructions that accompany it that Rosa devises to prompt her very fit and virile but memory impaired husband, Bertie, in their lovemaking.Discover the erotic antics that the ladies and some of the males from Eros Crescent enjoy together. Sensual and sexual lovemaking between friends suddenly make life much more interesting for all. Women of all ages come together in trysts that excite and surprise.The well endowed older man and husband of Rosa, Bertie, who suffers from a form of memory loss, is the beneficiary and enjoys the special Fifi codes that his wife develops so that she can have whatever sexual activity she wants with the man she loves. If Rosa simply states that "Fifi wants it over the back of the sofa", or "Fifi wants it doggy fashion", Bertie knows exactly what to do with no explantation on her part needed.But what happens when others discover the extensive two-page list of sexual activities that make up the Fifi codes?When Rosa becomes unwell and is taken to hospital, she goes through a stage of thinking she might die. Because of this she passes on the Fifi codes to a young psychology student, Alice, boarding at Rosa and Bertie's house and asks her to take care of Bertie. Then what happens when Alice's stepmother is given the Fifi codes?Then we meet Maude, one of Rosa's lovers who enjoys the wonders of a strong bisexual appetite. Maude's large derriere provides Rosa's Berie and Maude with a monthly special trip to heaven.Alice's stepmother was in need of that something she had enjoyed with women before she met Alice's stepfather. In a desperate move to overcome her problem, she goes to Alice and the two become lovers.Alice's newly discovered interest in women results in her and two student girl friends - the tubby and bosomy Angela and the tall skinny tiny breasted Freyer - becoming lovers after a boozy birthday party at Alice's flat.Alice meets a young man who, shortly after getting together, takes her home to meet his mother. When later, Alice and he make love when he is showing her around the large house, Alice is shocked when his mother, wearing a large dildo, asks him to move over so that "mummy can have a go at your pretty girlfriend", and climbs on top.Angie discovers a secret so that she can blackmail two senior boys from the school she works at, to come to her house to clean out the shed. She seduces the two on the sofa in the house and enjoys what she later describes to Alice and Freya as her "first ever gang bang".Helen's husband, Frederico, or Freddy, is shocked when Helen tells him that Rosa, who is in hospital, would love him to visit her there and asked if there was a chance he could show her his cock.Janice is the name of an exceptional person in the book. She is alway hungry for new sexual experiences and will go to extraordinary lengths to get them.The Fifi Code is the first volume of the Eros Crescent Trilogy. Volume two entitled simply Eros Crescent is available along with volume three, Mount Eros.

Meet the new residents of Eros Crescent, Roger and Caroline, and Maude and Rosa's network of women friends and lovers young and old, all of whom she is happy to share both with her husband Bertie, and with each other.Rosa maintains that the kiss is the most important part of sensuality, alongside anticipation, and that there should always be loving intent when expressing ones affections.After a year in Positano on the Amalfi coast, Roger left Italy and returned to London. He had completed the novel and stayed long enough to fulfil his publisher's requests for small changes to the manuscript and to enjoy for the last time the pleasures afforded him by the many artists and writers and others whom he had met and, of course, the beautiful landscape.Roger would miss it, but he now looked forward to having a few months in England. Roger's stepsister had offered him a room with her and her partner in South London for a period of three months, after which they would rent out the apartment and move to Australia. Both were highly qualified and had well-paid jobs at home and abroad.Jackie would of course interrogate him about his personal life as she always did. At thirty-three and five years his junior, she could not understand how it was that at six-feet tall and with such good looks and possibly "even a little intelligence" that he could possibly still be single."There are so many beautiful women around who would willingly waste themselves on a man like you, Roger," she would say teasingly as her partner Miranda looked on, enjoying the banter. Miranda rarely had the opportunity to see Jackie's side of the family, and considered Roger to be the only member."Okay, okay " Roger would reply, trying to defend himself. "There is just too much to do Jack. I can't fit everything in.""You can't fit everything in? My god, if the glimpses I've had of your life style in the past is any guide, dear brother, I have a good idea how many women you manage to 'fit in'. What is wrong with you, that not one of them chooses to hold you down in the bed long enough to become part of the furniture?"And what about us? How long do we have to wait to become aunts. Miranda and I are planning to start a family the year after next and that will give you 'uncle' status. I don't want our kids to have an 'old rake' for an uncle with some poor young bimbo wearing a Mother Santa miniskirt, balancing on six inch heels and hanging onto his arm, arriving for a family Christmas dinner."Rosa, the important older woman from volume one, The Fifi Code, is now fit and well and back from hospital ready and willing. She seduces both the young Jessica and her aunt Edith at Maude's house warming party, changing both their lives forever.Janice from The Fifi Code is here again and searching out another sensual experience, something she is very good at.Helen is back along with her lover, Celia Ashbee and Celia's beautiful young maid Polly.Polly meets Helen's other young lover, Sophie and introduces her to her horse riding friend Belinda.Eros Crescent is the second volume of the Eros Crescent Trilogy. Volume one entitled The Fifi Code is available along with volume three, Mount Eros.Please leave a review of any of our books. It would be much appreciated.

It should go without saying, that relationships between people are, as always, the essential elements of any romantic story. But equally important are the settings in which the characters act out their parts.In Mount Eros, we introduce you to The Club, a newly styled female friendly venue that had its origins in the old and shabby blue movie cinemas of New York, London, Berlin and Amsterdam.Roger's stepsister, Jackie and her partner Miranda are home in Australia from London at last and happily ensconced in the house at the end of Eros Crescent and looking to start a family.Life has changed significantly for Helen and Mary and many of the others, all of whom are more than happy to share their lives and loves with each other.Mount Eros is the third and final volume of the Eros Crescent Trilogy which includes volume one entitled The Fifi Code and volume two, Eros Crescent.Roger was very surprised to discover the location of The Club. Only a short walk from his own house and he'd never suspected that it was there. He met Maria in what was originally intended as a car park, many years back, but which was now just a large flattened expanse of land that lay at the foot of the mount and stretched behind both numbers thirteen and eleven Eros Crescent.Marie looked extraordinary. She was not wearing her usual black skirt and top but instead, a very short red miniskirt and a light cream coloured blouse with a frilly low neckline. Her bright red lipstick and her red high heels and white stockings pushed her appearance over the top. She took his hand and looked into Roger's eyes."Sorry about this outfit Roger, but it is the second Tuesday of the month. It's when Veronica and I meet two older lesbian ladies who we both happen to work for. They are super rich and live in big houses next door to each other in Vaucluse. They love to come over here once a month and have us together and wanting us to look as slutty as we can make ourselves without getting arrested. Interestingly, of the things that some women regret not doing in their younger days, dressing as sluts is one of them, although they will never admit it. If you sat close by and watched, you would be amazed at how many women approach us when we look like this. Far more interest from women than men."The Dunking was envisaged as a gated dogging site and without further ado the owner threw herself into organising it. Everything was going fine, she put in a lighting system that allowed itself to be turned into bright moonlight, and even added clusters of large indoor ferns in huge containers. But Sally how to get enough men to make it interesting for the ladies? After all, the whole thing was supposed to be female friendly and she wanted to be certain that their needs would be met. The enjoyable experiences the owner had had at the little dogging sessions just out of Goulburn where made possible by the fact that they had a large number of widowers and bachelors as members, as well as the women and their husbands. Where to get men and more importantly, the right men?It was a stroke of luck that Sally was introduced to the owner of The Club, a female friendly club where men and women, and women and women, could meet up during the day for sexual encounters. The owner, Desley Leigh had heard about the doggers at Goulburn from the member who introduced her to Sally, and she thought it sounded interesting.The upshot of this meeting - and after numerous get togethers between the two women and their accountants - was that Desley would offer her members, both male and female, a voucher giving them two free nights at Sally's new venture which, by the way, she had named The Dunking, a name she chose in an effort to move people away from the original dogging label yet still sound suggestive.

The woman, Celia Ashbee, had a son teaching at a private school whose friend, teaching at another private school, had a friend who told him a rude story. The friend of the friend of the friend said that one of his senior students and some other lads were in a church choir and that they had a great time each week after choir practice with two women.Helen suddenly got very interested at this point, but tried to hide her enthusiasm, not wanting the nice lady to think ill of her."Did the friend of the friend of the friend say if the student described what happened, Celia?"Celia poured more tea and selected a savoury petit four. Helen estimated that she was perhaps a little older than herself, a well-kept woman in her late fifties or very early sixties. Celia continued her story, lowering her voice and looking around her as she spoke."It seems that the music teacher and the organist would wait until everyone had left at the end of practice, except for a half dozen or more lads who went and hung around in the churchyard. "Then the two women would go back inside the vestry, change their clothes, putting on stockings and suspenders, high heels and short skirts, along with lots of makeup, then unlock the door and let the boys in."Helen found the story fascinating, and erotic."My goodness, Celia, stories like this could cause a sudden increase in the sizes of congregations across the land. Please tell me more."Celia laughed, enjoying her new friend's sense of humour and impressed with Helen's seeming lack of shockability."Did he say what actually happened after the boys entered the vestry?"Helen's new friend coloured up and Helen looked at her appreciatively. Celia, on the one hand a very proper upper middle-class woman of impeccable taste, hid a fun-loving naughty side which one would never have observed except via the subject matter of this conversation."He did, Helen. He did indeed. He said that in a very small anteroom there was a mattress covered with a bedspread, probably an emergency bed in case someone in the congregation suddenly took poorly."He said that the two women knelt on the mattress and called to the boys to come in, in pairs. Then they told the boys to show them what they had in their trousers. Once they were on display, each woman would put a boys penis in her mouth and suck it; then after a while they would look up at the boy's face and say ..."Excerpts from the EROS CRESCENT Series. Janice knows what she want and she wants it all. The EROS CRESCENT novels take you on a journey like no other - to places you couldn't imagine - a female friendly sex club or a privately owned members-only dogging venue; the toy-boy life of a writer working on the Amalfi coast and much much more. JANICE and the other novellas - JESSICA, MARIA, HELEN and THE CLUB - are extracts taken from The Fifi Code, Eros Crescent and Mount Eros.

"I think we could possible fix that. Well, sort of.""What do you mean, Helen?"I had one arm around her neck and my other arm and hand rested on her large thigh. Then I gently turned the hand over and began to rub her thigh through her skirt. I drew Mary's head towards mine, and, lifting my hand from her thigh, I turned her face towards me. Mary's still wet eyes focused on my face and I smiled lovingly at her. Then I put my lips on hers, knowing that this could be a terrible mistake.I left my lips on hers. She didn't immediately respond, but at least she hadn't pulled away. I was ready to retreat and remove my lips, when suddenly Mary pushed back at me with her mouth, gently. I waited a moment, wanting to give her some space. Then she pushed at me harder.I put my hand behind her head and pulled it slowly towards me while increasing the pressure on her lips. Then I took a risk and pushed my tongue into her mouth, just a tiny distance, and moved it slowly, side to side.All of her body shook and as it subsided, I realised that Mary was experiencing a huge emotional release. But there must still have been some tension remaining. I could feel her looking for something, something more, looking for what I might do next. I decided to take another risk.I unbuttoned my blouse. I was without a bra and I felt the cool air on my breasts. I picked up Mary's right hand and slowly placed it inside my blouse and waited. I felt Mary shaking and gasping as she hurriedly moved her hand around, feeling my skin and discovering a nipple. And while she was doing that, she picked up my spare hand and placed it against the exposed skin of her large bosom, and I gratefully slid my hand down inside her top. I too found a nipple and I too, gasped and sighed. Then Mary began to moan and moved her mouth around on mine, and we both tongued each other."I want to help you get through this, Mary my darling. Please let me make love to you?"I only had to wait a second or two before she answered."Oh yes, Helen, please, please make love to me. Sophie stood tall on a pair of high heels that she had gone shopping for with Mary the day before. Her stockings were a delightful smoky grey and she wore a shortish but conservative pleated skirt and a blouse buttoned to a frilly lace collar. Her face still wore that naive expression that I noticed when first we met, but there was something else going on suggesting a not-so-innocent state of mind."Hello Sophie, and welcome."Before I could say another word, Sophie crossed the room and threw her arms around me and fastened her mouth on mine. I slipped my arms around her and pushed back on her lips; then her mouth opened and she put out her tongue and explored my now open mouth. We stood like that for a few minutes, then I slid my hand down her back and lightly felt her backside.We eventually separated our mouths and Sophie smiled. "Auntie said it would be best if I kissed you straight away, then I wouldn't be so nervous."I laughed and turned her towards the bed, and we sat down."Dearest Mary Did her advice work, Sophie? You're no longer nervous, I hope?""Yes, Helen, I feel relaxed with you now. Do you like my shoes?""Good Yes, I love your shoes. I do have a bit of a shoe and foot fetish. Now Sophie, can I please do something, so that I won't feel nervous?"Sophie looked at me with eyes shining. "Anything " she whispered.I slowly unbuttoned my blouse right the way down and pulled it open, then I took Sophie's hand and drew it over my bosom and rubbed her fingers lightly on my bare breast.The EROS CRESCENT novels take you on a journey like no other - to places you couldn't imagine - a female friendly sex club or a privately owned members-only dogging venue; the toy-boy life of a writer working on the Amalfi coast and much much more. MARY and the other novellas - JESSICA, MARIA, HELEN, JANICE and THE CLUB - are extracts taken from The Fifi Code, Eros Crescent and Mount Eros.

Roger was impressed from the very beginning. The Club entrance area was bright and airy with white walls and brightly coloured doors and woodwork, and signage was clear and tasteful. Inside the cinema, people were scattered around, some alone, some as couples and there was at least two sets of three people. Maria pointed out to him that that the three front rows were off limits to men unless they were with a consenting female partner. These front rows catered for couples and women on their own who did not want to be approached by other members. Lone women would go there to simply watch the movie and likely touch themselves if so inclined. Occasionally - according to Maria - two women in a row might exchange glances and indicate that they would be happy to enjoy the other's company for mutual touching and kissing in which case, one or the other would get up and move next to her newly found friend. "I'd put uncertainty and anticipation at the head of the list. The uncertainty coupled with the expectation and excitement of receiving unsolicited sexual attention, i.e., "Will someone I do not know, try to do something sexual to me when I wasn't expecting it?" "The second thing, strangely enough, is the feeling of empowerment. A woman at The Club knows that ultimately she is safe but like all good stories, the opportunity is offered whereby the woman can suspend disbelief. She can pretend for just a short time, pretend that she will be surprised by titillating things that might happen to her, sexual things that she does not normally experience in her daily life. "And thirdly, wanting to be adored is a natural trait of all women, even if it might be only temporarily. The next day, Maria talked to her friend Mary about the club. By the time Maria had completed her discourse, Mary was truly excited. Maria asked her to repeat some of the things she'd said just to be sure that she had understood the main points."So, Maria. I go to The Club and I'm wanting to meet a man, or as you've pointed out, maybe more than one man. I find a seat anywhere in rows six or seven, and settle back to watch the movie. After just a short wait, a man will come and sit beside me and after a few minutes he will attempt to touch me, most likely on a leg or a breast or an arm. Then its up to me how I respond, encouraging him or discouraging him. If you want to make him work for his grope, refuse him a couple of times, three max, otherwise he will assume your not up for it. To get of rid of him, four rebuttals should do or just keep moving his hand away. "You've got it Mary.""If I'm not getting any takers in six or seven, I can go and pick a shy bloke from rows four or five and do whatever I like with him. "And if I want to meet up with a woman, I go and sit in rows eight and nine. In those rows we approach each other with signals - smiles and hand gestures. Sensitive touching and groping, and kissing and licking coming a few minutes later.And if I'm with someone and we don't want to be interrupted by another horny person, we sit in rows ten, eleven or twelve. We also sit in those rows if we simply want to be alone and watch the movie and play with ourselves. And finally, if I want to get ravaged, I go and park myself in row three, Gang Bang Alley, where, in just a few moments I will be deluged with gropers and cock wavers prancing around in front and behind me.

Jessica wandered off out of the laundry, leaving Angela and Sally planning their next adventure.As she was passing by the double doors that led to the little dining area and sun room, she glanced in and saw three men sitting on a sofa. They looked much older than the other men she'd seen so far. They were happily laughing and talking and Jessica thought how relaxed they were and she wanted to know more about them."Hello gentlemen. Can I join you?" she ventured as she came close and they looked up at her.Jessica put them all in their late seventies and thought how she had never seen three men this age together before. They seemed so relaxed and unthreatening and she wanted to know them better.Three sets of appreciative and smiling eyes stared at Jessica."Welcome to the gang of three, dearest lady. You are very beautiful. Please come and sit with us. Move up Henry and let the girl have a seat. That is Colin up that end, Henry in the middle and I'm John. What is your name?""I'm Jessica. Pleased to meet you all."Jessica squeezed in between Henry and John."How is it that three fine looking men like you are all alone. Have you finished with all the lovely woman here already? Or have you been told to behave yourselves?"The three men laughed and John answered. "Well, Jessica. We are all in our mid eighties but we have one other thing in common. All three of us have wives who are much younger than us and as you can imagine, because of our age, the girls are missing out on some of the things we were once keen to share with them. As a result, we like to bring them somewhere where they can meet younger men and get a bit of you-know-what. This means that we can all stay happily married."Then Colin added his voice to the conversation. "We can get them up but they're just not hard enough anymore, are they boys. "We love our wives so we are happy that they can get a good stiff cock in them at do's like this. My Mary came past a few minutes ago to see if we were okay and said all three were having a great time and their only worry was that they might be running out of cocks."John laughed. "If that was the case, my Maureen would want him to put on the dildo when they got home and he wouldn't get to sleep until the early hours.Jessica was fascinated by what these jolly men were saying. She wondered if the three men's wives gave their cocks any attention but decided not to ask.Jessica decided to play the innocent girl. Well, sort of innocent. She told the three gentlemen about how difficult it was to find men who would just give her a gently touch-up and play with her breasts and caress her and talk to her. She put a hand on John and Henry's knees and lightly rubbed them."That sounds about all we can do, girl. Would you like us to play with you then? We certainly won't hurt you. Why don't you lay yourself across our legs so that we can all have a bit of you. Do that and we'll see how we go. What do you think fella's.A thrill ran through Jessica's body. She stood up and surveyed the men, then she lifted the hem of her skirt and asked them if she should she lay face up or face down. Two out of three said face down, so the excited girl carefully laid on top of six legs, her shoes touching the arm of the sofa one end her head on John's trousers at the other end."That is nice, isn't it fellas? She's quite something isn't she? Look at those legs."Jessica felt six sets of fingers moving gently up and down on the back of her legs and smiled inwardly.The EROS CRESCENT series take you on a journey like no other - to places you couldn't imagine - a female friendly sex club or a privately owned members-only dogging venue; the toy-boy life of a writer working on the Amalfi coast and much much more. MARY and the other novellas - MARY, MARIA, HELEN, JANICE and THE CLUB - are extracts taken from The Fifi Code, Eros Crescent and Mount Eros.

The two bodies clasped each other tightly and tongued each other and Helen's body shook regularly with tiny orgasms that it was prone to do when excitement overwhelmed her, and which she hadn't experienced for a very long time.- from Mount ErosThe EROS CRESCENT novels take you on a journey like no other - to places you couldn't imagine - a female friendly sex club or a privately owned members-only dogging venue; the toy-boy life of a writer working on the Amalfi coast and much much more. HELEN and the other novellas - JESSICA, MARIA, JANICE, MARY and THE CLUB - are extracts taken from The Fifi Code, Eros Crescent and Mount Eros.Excerpt: When Alice had left Freya and Helen alone, it didn't take the two of them long to find each other. Helen asked Freya if she would like to see the fish pond with its newly installed lighting. "It is quite beautiful in the dark.""Love to Helen. Show me the way."Almost before the two even reached the pond they began touching each other, tentatively putting their hands around each other's waists and rubbing their fingertips innocently on each other's backsides. Moments later, Helen backed Freya against the door of her painting studio and kissed her passionately. Freya hung back a tiny bit, anticipating and looking forward to the onslaught of Helen's obviously strong desire for her. But she wasn't expecting Helen's next move. Helen pulled her forward and swung her round to face the door. Then the seducer pulled up Freya's skirt. Helen had wanted to see and touch Freya's extraordinary long thin legs and tiny buttocks from the first moment she had met her. Now there was nothing to stop her Helen moaned with pleasure as she discovered the gentle Freya's delightful big silk knickerbockers, her latest fashion statement. Helen slipped her hand first up one leg and dragged the knicker leg up to expose the full length of Freya's beautiful leg, then she pulled down the waist to find the tiny bottom, and put her hand on it. She shivered and felt wet between her legs. Helen's lust was potent. She was wildly excited and Freya appreciated it, joyfully sharing in the lustful anticipation. Freya found the door handle and turned it, and went into the studio. Helen followed and guided her towards a sofa bed, just made visible by the lights of the fish pond shining through the window.Freya turned to face Helen. "I want you to make love to me, Helen and I desperately want you to take you clothes off and for me to lie on your naked body and shag you. I will undress you while you do what you want to do. I want you to touch me everywhere, Helen."Helen sighed and began to undress Freya. It didn't take long. A skirt and a blouse, a tiny bra and her bloomers all came off, leaving her in her socks and her little white sandals.And while Freya slipped Helen's dress over her head, then stopped to stare at her beautiful breasts, Helen vented her lust on Freya's tiny breasts and nipples. And when Helen paused for breath, Freya pushed Helen down on the bed and spread herself on top of her and with their mouths joined, she shagged her seducer to their first orgasms together. "Oh my God, Freya, you are such a beautiful woman. I will want to make love to you again and again.""Please let's do that Helen. I will want much more of you, too."

As interactions go, what happened the next morning was most unexpected. Roger's deep sleep was only slightly disturbed; so slight as to allow him to offer no visible indication that he was awake or aware of what was happening. Roger's head lay to the side pointing in the direction of the door and, also, the enchantress with her head beneath the sheets. He decided to open one eye just a tiny amount to see what might be visible to him.Roger was in awe of this beautiful young woman. He was also speechless. As he began to formulate a response, Serina rose slowly from her chair."Thank you, Roger. I better not keep you from your work any longer. Thanks for listening. I hope I haven't frightened you?"Serina turned and smiled an appreciative smile."You are such an attractive man Roger. Please don't lock your doors at night. Getting through windows is something neither I or my mother are good at."Serena gave a wicked laugh and smiled."Oh yes, there is one other thing, Roger. Mum knows about me just as I know about her. We support each other. We are very happy to either share, or take turns. Thanks, Roger. See you soon."The EROS CRESCENT novels take you on a journey like no other - to places you couldn't imagine - a female friendly sex club or a privately owned members-only dogging venue; the toy-boy life of a writer working on the Amalfi coast and much much more. MARIA and the other novellas - JESSICA, HELEN, MARY, THE CLUB and JANICE - are extracts taken from The Fifi Code, Eros Crescent and Mount Eros.

Charlotte and Henry Logan, and Harriet and George Jones, have been neighbours for many years. Their children grew up and went to university together, and they thought that their lives were quite normal. But then something happened. "Well I think we should try and open up our husbands to these ideas. We don't want them clamping up at the party. We know how men can hang on to fixed beliefs even when there is evidence of a benefit from change."I've got a plan that will change them, at least in part.""And your plan is?""You and I are going to swap husbands for a night. We both know that this will lead to change of some sort. Hopefully, when we get to the party, George and Henry will fearlessly embrace the idea of swinging."

The young Roger Robertson has left university and is planning a career in law. At a post-university one-day advanced sex education seminar, Roger meets a sex worker who enriches his life choices for ever. A soft but firm sensuous voice then addressed the class and every young man was immediately smitten."Girls have wet dreams, too "Mary gave us all a few moments to digest what she had just said and my mind was immediately thrown into turmoil. How was it that I didn't already know this? How had this been kept a secret from me for so long? But then Mary was talking again.