Burning Desire

Burning Desire offers you over 30 stories of feverish passions, secret yearnings and heady liaisons. With stories from Henry Miller, Roald Dahl, Anne Rice, Alan Hollinghurst and Nikki Gemmell here are prize-winners, bestsellers and rising stars, each of whom prove that when it comes to the bedroom, a little fiction goes a long way.

This is an extract from Desire, the definitive collection of the sexiest short stories in literature. Hand-picked by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review, this gorgeous anthology is the perfect gift... or beside companion.