The Butcher

Lose yourself to lust and longing with Vintage Desire - nine of literature's best erotic novels delving into all things want, from yearning to sexual awakening to the depths of kink and taboo.

'Fleshy, beautiful and obscene' Evening Standard

As she whiles away her summer days in a dull seaside town, a young woman finds herself strangely and increasingly drawn to the looming figure of her boss, the butcher.

A controversial bestseller when first published 1988, Alina Reyes novella pairs here with her stories 'Lucie's Long Voyage' and 'The Fatal Bodice' to form a vision of female sensuality that is by turns dreamlike and nightmarish.

‘Her depiction of sex has sparked a resurgence of erotica as a lost literary tradition.... The language is as rich as calves' liver.’ The Times

Vintage Desire: classic stories of lust and longing.