📚 Sex sells – if you work in publishing, at least
The Booksellera rise in sex, intimacy and relationship titles, with a notably inclusive bent. Industry experts identified a post-Covid boom in content about connection, adding that a growing openness around sex also helped drive the trend.
An increased appetite for books set between the sheets also surely reflects the fact that such novels have already been doing well in recent years – in both commercial and literary fields. Indeed, if you were to define a “millennial novel”, a forensic interest in sex, self-worth, desire and power is probably the first thing you’d hit on. Many young writers – a striking majority female – mine the messiness of dating with honesty, horniness, and humour.
As an author, I know writing about sex can be incredibly difficult – is there any writer who hasn’t cringed at the thought that they might get nominated for the Bad Sex Awards? But this lot prove that writing about sex can be very good indeed.An author who needs little introduction – and whose pin-point writing on sex and relationships has done more than any other to shape publishing trends.
, Lillian Fishman’s debut is an uncompromising exploration of lust, power, gender and shame. Eve is a committed lesbian – till she enters into a fraught menage a trois with the domineering Nathan and his adoring girlfriend Olivia. This fiercely intelligent novel refuses to be politically correct or to moralise about its characters: Eve is vain, selfish, and in thrall to the male gaze.
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