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Radio 4,5 mins

Why has the 'Bonkbuster' fallen out of fashion with women?

Woman's Hour

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Why are women no longer reading bonkbuster novels? Where are women getting their erotic fiction from now? BBC Woman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey talks to Maisie Lawrence, editor at Bookouture, and co-founder of Pride in Publishing, Sareeta Domingo, Editor at Mills and Boon, and author of erotic short stories and romance novels, and to Lauren Henderson (aka bonkbuster author Rebecca Chance),

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