Miss Columbine and Harley Quinn by Margery Hilton

It’s the seventies and all the clothes are nylon, tricel and “wincey” in various shades of orange and tangerine, and everything is just sooper! Everything except the bizarre romance between a hopelessly immature teenager, Shelley, who’s 17-going-on-12, and an oddly withdrawn and bloodless hero, Harley Quinn, 35. Shelley is so immature that that she doesn’t […]

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A Man of Means by Kay Thorpe

Superb stuff. Classic vintage age-gap melodrama and super steamy. Dana’s 17, Mark’s 35, and they can’t stop lusting over one another despite his scruples about sleeping with someone half his age. Even though he didn’t have many scruples about marrying her. All in all a perfect May-December (or perhaps October) dynamic. There’s a rather unrealistic […]

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Vintage sexy: try Violet Winspear

If anyone feels like some classic, sexy vintage romance, try Violet Winspear who wrote 70 romance novels in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. You’ll find plenty of power play, age-gap, virginal heroines, coerced marriage and Alpha male themes, with heroes who are, in the author’s own words:  “…lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and […]

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