Paul Little’s style of erotic writing concentrates on flagellation situations, M/F and F/F, and usually does so in a rather extreme and obsessive manner. This may explain why earlier editions of his work have been anonymous; this may be a sign of increasing liberalisation. Red Stripe published the first of these two novellas, ‘Love Slave’, anonymously as ‘The Passions of Lady Meg’ (note the original interpolation of “Lady” and omission of “Peculiar”) in 1988, with slight editorial variations. The storyline, as such, concerns the imposition of particularly cruel fates on a considerable number of innocent, mostly aristocratic, young women in England and colonial America shortly before the revolution. The eponymous Lady Meg becomes responsible for their torment and their sapphic education, with the help of black slave overseers on her plantations, whose lusts nicely coincide with Lady Meg’s punitive passions. Not for the faint of heart, this book will appeal to those looking for strong stimuli. ( )