No not a book about the Grammy Award-winning American hip hop group who are best mates with Queen Latifah but a book that every self respecting gay man should have. You must have at least one John Patrick collection on his bookshelf and this reissue of one his best selling anthologies would be one to cherish.

John Patrick was a prize winning gay author and editor of gay erotic fiction, often having his fingers on the throbbing swollen pulse of up and coming gay writing and always with an eye on the quality.

I remember buying and reading this when it was first issued and this new paperback version, from STARbooks is just as much fun as the original.  You get a lot of bang for your buck with twenty short stories in this collection all focused on lads who look like butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths but who are more likely to want some thick dripping man meat to chow down on. The lads in these stories are naughty to the core.  With stories from Thomas C. Humphrey ‘trailer park trash’ and Frank Brooks’  ‘Naked beach boy’ the stories cover a range of routine daily activities that all end up, one way or another, in steamy sexual liaisons.  From the gentle and touching to the brutish quickie these are all hot, sexy stories guaranteed to satisfy.

If you like your erotica full of lads who are eager, uncontrolled and full of lustful adventures then you could do worse than add this to your bedtime reading collection. Or read on the train, just make sure that cute lad sitting opposite can see the cover!

Out now £12.99

From the publishers website here.

Or from most gay bookshops.