The Controversial Life of a Book: The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray

Controversy. You gotta love it.

I got a shedload of controversy when I wrote my sex parodyPride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts. (Some of those Jane-ites really got their knickers in a twist over that one!) Now I’m getting even more raised eyebrows and shocked intakes of breath with the recent publication ofThe Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray, my sequel to Oscar Wilde’s Faustian classicThe Picture of Dorian Gray.

But surely you didn’t think it was a fluffy little romance about a man whose primary...