OUR DIRTY DOZEN!

A — GEORGIA TOFFOLO Meet Me In Hawaii (2021)

GEORGIA TOFFOLO, formerly of Made In Chelsea fame, has churned out four Mills & Boon novels in her ‘Meet Me’ series. Though she writes most of them herself, she admits to having help from a co-author — and describes them as ‘steamy’ but not ‘full-frontal bonking’.

B — JILLY COOPER Mount! (2016)

SINCE publishing Riders in 1985, best-selling author Jilly Cooper has written 21 romance novels, including ten in the Rutshire series. The tenth, Mount!, marked the muchheralded return of philanderer Rupert Campbell-Black, still just as swoonsome at 59.

C — E.L. JAMES Fifty Shades Of Grey (2011)

E.L. JAMES, real name Erika Mitchell, breathed new life into the erotic novel genre with her Fifty Shades trilogy. The bondagethemed action follows Christian Grey, a billionaire with a penchant for dominating women, and his young lover, Anastasia Steele.

D — JACKIE COLLINS Chances (1981)

THE original bonkbuster by Queen of Steam, Jackie Collins, who wrote 32 books, including The Hollywood Series, selling more than 500 million copies. This novel introduced us to Gino Santangelo, the street-kid-turnedgangster, and his daughter Lucky.

E — JULIAN FELLOWES Snobs (2004)

THE debut novel by Julian Fellowes, the writer and creator of Downton Abbey. Snobs goes behind the veil of British aristocracy, charting the courtship and marriage of Charles, Earl Broughton and Edith Lavery.

F — SARAH FERGUSON Her Heart For A Compass (2021)

THE first in the Duchess of York’s Mills & Boon-style period romance series (the racy bodice-ripping is reserved for the second, out later this month, apparently). It is a semi-fictional story about her great-great aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.

G — NADINE DORRIES Shadows In Heaven (2018)

MP-TURNED-chick-lit-author Nadine Dorries has published 16 novels — not all bonkbusters — with another six on the way. Her sex scenes made headlines after a Twitter account, @ DailyDorries, started sharing them online and racked up several thousand rapt fans.

H — RICHARD E. GRANT By Design (1998)

OSCAR-nominated actor Richard E. Grant’s debut novel tells the story of Vyvian and Marga, childhood friends from an African country who have always dreamed of Hollywood — and pull out all the stops to make it there.

I — TONY BLAIR A Journey (2010)

THE former Prime Minister’s memoir traces both his political and personal journey during his years in power. This rather clumsy scene involving Cherie, by then his wife of 14 years, saw him nominated for a Bad Sex award in its year of publication.

J — SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

Sashenka (2008)

SET in 20th-century Russia, Sashenka tells the tale of a loyal Communist wife who embarks on an illicit affair. Biographer and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore has won awards for his historical fiction.

K — SHIRLEY CONRAN Lace (1982)

AUTHOR and journalist Shirley Conran is known for both her fiction and non-fiction, including Superwoman. The ultimate feminist bonkbuster, Lace sold more than three million copies — and embodied steamy, escapist fiction for a generation of female fans.

L — PRINCE HARRY Spare (2023)

THIS particular scene in Prince Harry’s headline-grabbing autobiography, released earlier this year, tells in brief but lurid detail how he lost his virginity, aged 17, in the field behind a Wiltshire pub. The ‘older woman’ turned out to be a groom aged 19.