Below Blue London

by Chrissie Bentley

An historical cavalcade of red hot erotica set in the ever-changing streets of London's East End. Michelle Carter, a young professional in her first ever London apartment, discovers that she and her roommate, Janet, are not alone. The past, too, inhabits the rooms, a sensual, tactile past that reaches back over 200 years, to draw the two women into the succession of sexual encounters that must be relived before they can be understood. Set exclusively on London's Isle of Dogs, a tiny patch of land that has seen countless changes over the centuries, Below Blue London is a seamless combination of explicit erotic detail and expert historical documentation. Sweeping from Yuppie brokers to Victorian dockers, from the desperation of poverty to the complacency of wealth, from the horror of the London Blitz to the luxury of the Royal Court, Below Blue London is an historical epic like no other

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First published July 31, 2011

About the author

An Angel with a Mind like a Sewer
by Terry (the not-a-computer-geek)

What is there to say about Chrissie Bentley that hasn’t already been said?  Or, at least, scrawled on a rest room wall somewhere between this coast and that one, and in a few more exotic overseas locales as well?

Introductions.   Although most of her friends and readers know her as Chrissie Bentley, she started (and continues) her fiction-writing career under the name of Naughty Miranda.  That was back in September 2004, when the short story “And So It Begins” appeared at EroticStories.com – exactly one year and one week after the first in what she describes as a “horribly unconvincing” string of nine stories appeared under an inexplicably-adopted male pseudonym.

“And So It Begins” was well-titled.  Other tales quickly followed including the first of her Ambrose Horne detective adventures, "A Man Of Letters,” published under the pseudonym Sir Arthur Coital-Drill. Within months, a correspondent for the respected philatelic journal Linn’s Stamp News had a letter published recommending another Ambrose story, “The Congealed Conundrum,” to the stamp collecting community, on the strength of its philatelic content!

The majority of Chrissie’s earliest tales also found their way to EroticStories.com,  so we probably don’t need to elaborate on what sort of stories they are.  Suffice to say, “Naughty Miranda” has established herself as a seemingly permanent Top Six fixture in the site’s favorite authors list, and while her once-prolific story-telling output has since faded to barely a dribble, she retains her popularity among the site's users..

Away from ES, Chrissie has published stories, articles and reviews across the net, including Literotica, xxxReplay, the Lusty Library, Yergus Novels, SMUT Magazine, Erika Lust’s Xobsessions, Ruthie’s Club, Sexis Magazine and many more.

You will also come across her (and I’m sure she won’t complain) courtesy of some forty anthologies, published by Mischief Books, Cleis Press, XCite Books, Mojocastle Press, Black Lace, and the Mammoth Book series, alongside many more; in addition, she has contributed to such leading collections as the genre-defining Best Women’s Erotica, The First Annual Geeky Kink Anthology, and titles edited by Violet Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel and more.  Chrissie herself was co-editor of XCite Book’s oral sex anthology The Bad Girl’s Sweet Kiss.  

In the realms of non-fiction, Chrissie contributed an introduction to pop culture maven Dave Thompson’s Black and White and Blue study of vintage Triple X movie history, and revealed herself to be an ardent collector of vintage stag films as well, a passion that is writ all over her own contribution to that particular field, Soho Blue—a semi-fictional account of the late 1960s London porn industry that has been acclaimed as “the closest we’ll ever get to the truth” by vintage-erotica-forum.com.

Of course, she has also written an impressive number of erotic novels and collections, including the best-selling The Nympho Librarian; the supernatural historical novel, Only The Spirits Remain (originally published as Below Blue London ; What I Did On My Summer Vacation; Ambrose Horne's A Most Curious Case (originally published in three volumes by Cite Press); and The Girl in the Doorway, a captivating examination of life and sex among America’s urban homeless.

Her most recent book, My Secret Lives is subtitled "the erotic grimoire of a jazz age gentleman," and rightly so.

Chrissie lives in the darkest Delmarva peninsula with cats, ghosts and a growing collection of vintage sheet music. She’s short, she’s single, and she lies about her age. Her writings have seen her described as the “Bard of the Blowjob” and the “Oracle of Oral,” and asked if she has any unfulfilled ambitions, she says it’s to dig up her garden and rediscover Atlantis.

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