Love is … different things to different people. For some, it is about romance and poetry, to others it is unbound desire. The tension between spiritual and physical expressions of love is an apparent contradiction that dates back to medieval courtship. What better excuse to offer you both romantic and erotic literature this month … and other material that challenges these -- and maybe your -- boundaries.

How you love and who you love … like Marmite, it's a matter of taste. There is usually an other onto whom we project our desires. True even for the narcissist, although, as a J.M. Coetzee character says in Slow Man, every time he 'bent to kiss those inviting lips, the twin would dissolve in ghostly ripples' (Coetzee, 2005: 163).

Taste varies … historically and culturally … and, in this age of self-management, from individual to individual.  If love is about freedom of expression, it’s worth celebrating even if you definitely are not a Marmite person (though now there's Champagne-flavour Marmite, surely it’s time to experiment).

And whether you intend to enjoy your love vicariously, through the pages of a good book, or as the result of sending the book as a gift for Valentine's Day (which comes under the heading of seduction), you won't want to hang around. So these books are available exclusively at Buy it Now or Best Offer prices. No need to wait ten days for an auction to end, Buy it Now and your book will be in the post immediately and on its way to you.

The Other Love theme will run throughout February, after all -- passion shouldn't grind to a halt just because you've packed away your Valentine's card(s). 

By the way, if you are sending a gift to someone special, there is an option for gift wrap and shipping to the recipient of your choice, together with a personal greeting (see below for details).

I wish you all the love you deserve,

dene october

 Gift wrap option available