Fanny and Selina could be any age but I like to think of them as having married young, reared their children and moved on through divorce into a new life flat-sharing together. It could so easily be my own story and I must confess to being quite jealous. Selina could be me. I envy her!

George is the new forklift driver. Millie and I work in the packaging department and we are both bored and frustrated with absent husbands doing endless three-week tours on the North Sea oil rigs. The arrival of 'Supersize George' as we quickly dubbed him caused us initially wry suggestive amusement, but gradually morphing into something deeper and more serious. Came the day that Millie said "I fancy him" and my spontaneous reply was "Me too!. From there on in there would be no knowing whe...

While women have struggled to gain recognition in the discipline of philosophy, there is no shortage of brilliant female thinkers. What can these women teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas back to the smaller everyday concerns of domestic life, work, play, love, and relationships?Australian novelist Julienne van Loon goes on a worldwide quest to answer these questions, by engaging with eight world-renowned thinkers who...

I'm Jed, baptised Jeddediah, along with my twin brother Jeremiah, We grew up on our family farm and ran the cattle ranch along with our Pa until I took up an apprenticeship as a blacksmith. I quickly learned how to smash around red-hot ironwork to fashion horseshoes, put strengthening bars into unstable cottage walls and fix new rims on cartwheels. My activities soon enough attracted an audience to my hot, sweaty forge so I became accustomed to being watched over by the young ladies of the...

When I became of age, and being of a comely shape and a fair complexion, my master sold me into Suleiman the Magnificent's harem. I had been selected from amongst the many slave girls that he owned as being potentially suitable and had been put into seclusion as soon as I had my first menstrual period along with the other favoured ones. We were sent to live inside a walled palace on the fringe of a remote town in the far reaches of his domain, cut off from the outside world and attended on...

As I slowly come awake, I can feel the tingle of excitement beginning to surge through my entire body, somehow stronger than it has ever been before, even in my still-sleepy memory. Deep down inside my belly my pulse throbs with a gradually rising cadence of erotic heat and my tightly clenching little vagina begins a slow pulsation that is irresistibly pleasurable. My eyes are still closed while my senses begin to explore Olivia's voluptuous body snuggled against me, her steady breathing s...

The time is post-war prosperous white Middle America. A time before computers, mobile phones, the internet or 'social media'. In this time it is still possible to live a double life as long as you are a wealthy white male, a time when "The Great Gatsby" was entirely plausible. But occasionally we women get our own back!

'Australians' fervent belief in luck is deeply etched in our consciousness. More than with the citizens of other countries, it affects the way we see most things. When someone escapes serious injury or death in an accident, we remark on how lucky they were. We don't say they were unlucky to have had the accident in the first place.'In ON LUCK, Anne Summers explores the gambling culture that is so intrinsic to being Australian, corruption in business, the economy, our obses...

Cathy is 44, lives alone, is overweight and slipping gently towards middle age. That is until her cousin Melanie sends her to Dreamland Health & Beauty and the services of the delicious Dr Stevens. Under his expert hands her life is to be profoundly changed forever!

This is Anne's story. After a long and loveless marriage and divorce, she discovers a sex toy in the back of a cupboard. She tries it out, timidly at first but with a rapidly growing surge as her buried sexuality bursts over her, overwhelming her in lustful need. Her sensual inner self takes control and sends her forth to find a fulfilling sexual love. She succeeds beyond her wildest imagining

Naomi and Louis move into their new home where she found secluded bliss within the walled patio where she could be her free, naked self. Only she receives a photograph of herself in the mail, displaying her narcissistic and highly sexual persona in an erotic pose. Mystefied, she begins to wonder who took the picture and how it was done.

A continuation of the 'Under Plain Wrapper' series of titles combined into this third volumeThe theme of the mature woman exploring her sexuality is continued from the first two volumes of 'The Joy of Sex' and the stories are in the same vogue, being highly sensual and involving explicit sexual activity