Celebrating the intimate and timeless art of erotica, Mariella Frostrup together with The Erotic Review, curated 100 of her favorite selections from the genre. It features authors such as D.H. Lawrence, Anaïs Nin, James Joyce, the Marquis de Sade and Michel Faber. Each story meets a certain literary standard while still earning the epithet of sexy and libidinous, ranging from the amusingly old-fashioned to the unapologetically explicit.

Story published in the anthology is titled Pears and Silk.