To make matters worse, the growing popularity of what are known as “smut books,” written for a younger age demographic , is ...

The limited focus on sex scenes at the book club is a keyhole into why smut or steamy romance novels have exploded in ...

But is there spice?” Anyone who’s spent time scrolling BookTok — a TikTok community in which creators discuss and recommend books — has likely heard someone ask this. “Spice” is simply a less ...

She ended things shortly after. Turns out the smut-book boom is about stirring up all kinds of feelings, not just the sexual ones. For people like Christina, they’re a reality check. The genre ...

Jules Williamson, 26, was once embarrassed by her love of romance novels. She first encountered the genre as a teenager after picking up her mum's copy of Confessions of Shopaholic, a rather tame ...