Sayidati Zenobia... Plus-1

A two-book anthology of female-led fiction, describing physical and psychological warfare between the genders, opens with Rafael Menton's "Sayidati Zenobia".

Read on as Mr Menton describes a pupil-teacher infatuation gone badly wrong... For the tutor... For the life of the lecturer and faithless husband tutoring a Yemeni undergrad is about to take a downward turn when that undergrad and heiress decides he will be much better suited to a position at her side in her own country than the one he currently occupies in the halls of academe... Or, to be more accurate, a life in her country spent at her feet!

Merrick Scanlon's "Serving Fumiko" gives us the story of a hapless recently released UK felon who, as a condition of his release, accepts the employment offered him by the probation-officer into whose supervision he is released. A probation-officer who finds him a live-in position with a wealthy younger woman who shares her Japanese heritage - along with something far more sinister... Something sinister that is likely to have far reaching ramifications for the recently released older Englishman... At least if he does not wish to be returned to prison to finish the rest of what had been a terrifying sentence!

Female-led fiction of an exotic and psychological nature for those readers who prefer to use their imaginations with the help of character-driven narratives and believable plotlines.